Burnt
Noodle
What is it? And who burnt the noodle?
Maybe those two questions are one in the same.
An attempt to describe what is going on here.
A babble by Paul Lamb
BN
is deep psychedelic music. Space rock with little attention paid to
boundaries. A collective of fearless musicians who can hit a groove or 'go
wide' in deep echo drenched spaced out theater of the mind. Sometimes we
improvise spoken word stories and music simultaneously to great effect.
My 'real job' is recording engineer, sometime
producer, and sometime bass player. If these discs were recorded at a
studio for hire they would have never been made. They are made in spare
time as a labor of love.
The Moog synthesizer and Mellotron are 2 cool
things and I am lucky to own these tools. Things like cellos and
Burnt noodle has produced 2 full length CDs. ‘The
Noodle and the Damage Done’ and ‘Next
Exit’. There was a cassette only limited
edition release in
The band was once simply called Noodle. A fellow
music producer, friend and guitar player Gregory Haldan called one night
and said a local pub had a cancellation and did I want to just go and jam?
Sure! We called our drummer friend, Rich Sherwood. On the way there it was
suggested we were only going to go and noodle. Soon we had a jam with Tom
Hardy. He could sing . And he had some songs. We sounded good but most
surprising of all it was the flock mentality that happened when we four
played. We could turn on a dime and we seemed to constantly know where the
others were going. It was an epic experience for us all.
The name Noodle stuck for a couple of years until
a band from NY contacted us and said THEY were Noodle. Whatever.
The 1st CD was an adventure and an experiment. We were trying to figure out how to make a cool sounding thing with medium to lo-fi basic tracks. Gregory knew the most about recording and had some cool gear. We did it at his house. The jamming speaks for itself. We felt lucky that stuff got recorded at all. We did a lot of work on the jams and decided to put it out. Kalifornia Noodle didn't feel like arguing with NY Noodle about who was Noodle. It must be said that a huge part of the texture of that disc was the keyboard work of Steve Sofranko. He understood just what to do.
We
all bring different influences and textures. If anything, it seems we
listen well when we jam. Many people agree.
Obviously
nobody makes their living making mid-fi art records with epic 23 minute
jams on them, so they happen when they happen. The 2nd disc took about 5
years to be born. It had many of the same players and a few new ones. The
fidelity was a step forward. I took on editing the jams, recording the
overdubs and mixing, though it was still all based on the music we made
together in the moment.
This
time Alex Strudley brought on the stunning keyboard work. And Mark Emerson
played drums.
What's
next? Well, we jammed 2 months ago and it was magic again but it wasn't
recorded. At some point we will make another disc.
There
are other projects with other players from other places. Soon they will
all be available here.
Something
has to be said about a man named Reverend
Ron who is on both of the CDs. He is a whack genius. He is the real
deal and some of the live stuff with him in nightclubs is epic...(once
with his dog).
Ok
if you are a fan of BN I'd like to say THANK YOU and sorry there has never
been a real web site before. It's a long stupid story but with the help of
a dear friend, Ferne Aycock, I finally got the URL back and hope this
helps a little.
Feel free visit me on MySpace and Facebook to say hello, and add a comment!
Paul
