nugs.tv Tonight: Pink Talking Fish w/ Reed Mathis & Electric Beethoven

Article Contributed by nugs.net | Published on Friday, February 3, 2017

A marathon musical journey featuring a full rendition of the Talking Heads opus “Stop Making Sense” with Pink Floyd & Phish songs intertwined throughout the piece.

While on tour with various projects over the past few years, bassist extraordinaire Reed Mathis spent his spare time rearranging Beethoven (Symphonies 3 and 6), recording each newly reimagined movement with a long and impressive "who's-who" list of his musical brethren, including Phish's Page McConnell and Mike Gordon, Marco Benevento, Joe Russo, the Barr Brothers, Robert Walter and Galactic's Stanton Moore.

When imagining what it would be like to tour these Beethoven masterpieces, Mathis rearranged his rearrangements a second time, this time welding Beethoven's motifs and melodies to modern-era dance beats, with plenty of waypoints for the musicians to jump off into heavy, full-band improvisations. It's jamtronica with Beethoven — hence, the world's first CDM ("classical dance music") band.

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