Chris Joss - Tea Age Sea

[@Savage--]

Thank god tune down was on Better Call Saul I likely never would have found Chris Joss otherwise.

[@carrottoponcrak]

I don't watch the show but that's dope. Chris is the man

[@gabrielefronterre7029]

me tooo

[@9dravah9]

Yup, me too .....

[@Ratsotone]

Watching season 1 last night, heard a funky cool tune and Shazamed it, now here I am listening to the album and loving it

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Thanks GG !

[@CopyrightThis723]

This is a fantastic album man, you should be proud. Going right to the top of my playlist immediately....

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

That's cool, thanks !

[@kovulion7777]

I love that you can just put any Chris Joss music in any scene in Better Call Saul and it fits :D It's like Ed Edd and Eddy and Jazz

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Thanks 👍 !

[@rudyspring2528]

Gravy

[@aj-zi6vi]

It really makes it feel like you're travelling east. Back home in my case. Thank you this is masterfully created

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Thanks aj

[@paulelderson934]

Tea Age Sea.... hehehe. Wonder how many got that. Well, the ones that got it are probably the ones it references to. Great album, by the way.

[@paulelderson934]

Frank Z Mmmmmmkaaaay.

[@frankz2761]

Paul Elderson :)))

[@StefanReich]

Drugs are good mmmkay

[@cheemsnaner2901]

best car music ever

[@DavisSchulz]

awesome

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Cheers Davis! 😉

[@Satchmoeddie]

It sounds like the old Henry Mancini Jazz Ensemble got funky! I used to love going to see Mancini and his Orchestra or his Jazz Ensemble during the Hollywood off seasons. They used to come east to Phoenix Arizona, and sometimes would play with the symphony orchestra.

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Nice, lucky you ! Thanks!

[@Zimbon777]

Tea Age Sea and Lovely Sunny Day ;)

[@jeyjeysoundsleto1801]

Some tune here too

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Thanks !

[@luciecornu353]

This album is very inspired by the 70s, with the connotations of Jeff Beck, stanley Clarck, The talking heads, Gong ... I like it a lot. Thank you :-)

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Glad you like it Lucie, thanks! The influences on this LP are varied, late 60's and early 70s apart from this track influenced by Afro Beat which is a music style from the mid 70s created by Fela Kuti, mixed with sitar which is a typical 60s thing in rock, initiated by George Harrison in 65. Jeff Beck, Clark and Gong are not part of my influences though. Talking Heads' "remain in light" is a favourite of mine, but it's also their most African music influenced LP, and I'm highly inspired by African and African-American music, and people who were influenced by it. Danger Bud has late 50s Little Richard's influence Night Scare inspired by Soundtrack composer Roy Budd Tune Down is inspired by the intro of Idris Muhammad's Loran'sDance and the changes by David Axelrod's simple arrangements Surrounded by Afro Beat and Santana 3's opening track. Charmer by the Beatles and various people influenced by them mid 60s Melisma Mercury is a different version of a remix I made for Praful in 2006, a swing beat slowed down, with sitar giving a World Music vibe a bit. Root Juice is polyrhythms again inspired by AfroBeats. Zingy Twangs and the soft reprise ot it are mid 60's library and pop. Rififi Rococo is again an afro beat drumming, with sitar giving a new direction to the style, the breaks are a reminder of Ian Dury's "Hit me with your rhythm stick". Little Nature is that beat from the middle of Pink Floyd's Echoes which is about the only bit of Pink Floyd I like, I recorded that beat to test the flute I'd just bought. Then it went into something else with that chorus and sitar.

[@dumnass3394]

Thanks for breaking it down like that. I love hearing about an artist's influences, especially when they help create such great music/vibes.

[@alexis77360]

Omg, excellent ! I'm dowloading those songs, you are an amazing artist... Could you tell me the type of song it is ? Sorry for my english #frenchfan

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Alexis Bruynooghe Thanks, this is a sort of slow Afrobeat with sitar, I don't think there's a name for that style ;)

[@alexis77360]

You might have created your own style :D

[@frankz2761]

Chris Joss King Sunny Adé rencontre Ravi Shankar... :)

[@Misslotusification]

Chris Joss Sounds like Indian Fela or Manu Dibango to me ears... Cool stuff, thank you :)

[@pedrocaser]

+Chris Joss Slow Afrositar

[@flaviobonanome]

Great Music MAN! Just found your work (yes, thanks to better call saul too heehhe). What`s the Electric Piano you use in your tunes?

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Thanks Flavio ! it depends ,on the first 2 LPs they were multi-samples of various Rhodes and Wurlitzer played on my sampler, on the 3rd LP it was the VST plugin EVP73, on the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th it was the Lounge Lizzard VST, and on the 8th a real Rhodes MK2

[@flaviobonanome]

Thanks for the answer man! If you allow me to ask another, did you find that great difference between the VSTs and the Real thing? I`m a musician myself and I`m at the brink of leaving behind the idea of hardware and start work with VSTs for live shows and recording. In your opinion, the real thing still makes difference enough for the investment?

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

Hard to say, in my case I started with the sampler then the VST on a light touch plastic keyboard, very easy to play, compared to the Rhodes that has a very heavy touch, but that difficulty to play is part of the sound, there so much dynamic between hitting the keys softly and hitting them hard. But it gets physical at some point ! :) When recording, listening on its own you can tell and appreciate it's a real instrument, but when mixed with the rest, when there's a lot going on, I sometimes can't tell the difference, and have to think a few seconds to remember which I used. I guess a good midi keyboard, weighted keys could give a similar impression to the real thing, depending on the music you make. But that sort of good midi keyboard can be as expensive as a second hand Rhodes, or wurli. Playing live, although the Rhodes is robust, it still needs more or less frequent adjustments in tuning, or tines settings, if you move it around a lot. cheers!

[@smokekush420ful]

vinyle ??

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

+Antoine Bourigault nope

[@smokekush420ful]

Chris Joss it is sad

[@ChrisJossOfficial]

they're expensive to make and deliver, there's so little demand for vinyl that inevitably I'd end up with tens of boxes full of them at home. We had to destroy thousands of unsold copies when getting rid of a storage space. That's how popular vinyl is... Still you can press your own for 80€ ;)