A roving 3 year collaboration between record collector-thrift maven-live technology champion DJ Shakey, and gypsy-old time-hobo multi-instrumentalist and clown musician Aaroneous, FreeBass have performed their genre bending music at festivals, parties, and clubs all over the country. Drawing on their combined enthusiasm for antique American roots music and modern technology, Shakey and Aaroneous mine the rich soil of the hobo lexicon and add some spit and polish, while keeping the spirit and message very much intact.
Conjuring carnival barkers, storefront preachers, and train hopping buskers of old, Aaroneous skips through a dizzying array of cheap novelty instruments, such as washtub bass, banjo, bass harmonica, jaw harp, slide whistle, and ukuleles, which are looped live by Shakey and mixed with train samples, junk percussion loops, and beats from every era of recorded music.
The songs, culled from Aaroneous' years of exploration into Appalachian old time, southern gospel, new orleans dixie, and delta blues, are given a 21st century twist by Shakey, and emerge as a time warp that links the rootlessness of the migratory grifters and drifters of the depression era to our own uncertain future. They combine the electronic and the acoustic, the traditional and the cutting edge, the Hobo and the Tech. To quote Jon Margulies, the father of Hobotech "Remember when all we had to make music with was washtub bass, ukulele, and incredibly powerful computer software? They do"
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Conjuring carnival barkers, storefront preachers, and train hopping buskers of old, Aaroneous skips through a dizzying array of cheap novelty instruments, such as washtub bass, banjo, bass harmonica, jaw harp, slide whistle, and ukuleles, which are looped live by Shakey and mixed with train samples, junk percussion loops, and beats from every era of recorded music.
The songs, culled from Aaroneous' years of exploration into Appalachian old time, southern gospel, new orleans dixie, and delta blues, are given a 21st century twist by Shakey, and emerge as a time warp that links the rootlessness of the migratory grifters and drifters of the depression era to our own uncertain future. They combine the electronic and the acoustic, the traditional and the cutting edge, the Hobo and the Tech. To quote Jon Margulies, the father of Hobotech "Remember when all we had to make music with was washtub bass, ukulele, and incredibly powerful computer software? They do"
To support Live Tips, please visit the shop, or make a donation - Thanks!