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Joined: August 16 2017
Location: California
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Posted: August 16 2017 at 19:35
...and she's 22 or 23 years old and from what I've seen she plays keyboards, bass, flute, and guitar as well as anybody I've ever seen or heard. (She can play Zappa, Fripp, Emerson, Pastorius, Bach, etc.) She also sings with a pitch-perfect voice and does amazing harmonies. I recently heard that she's taken up Chapman Stick. (Re flute and piano, find her video performance of Ambidextranata not to mention Steve Reich's Piano Phase. She's the youngest known performer of Piano Phase, apparently having awoken one morning with an urge to play it and just sat down and started to do it.) Her drumming is also amazing even though it's virtual on keys. Would be interesting to see her behind an real kit. Also, she gave her fans a 2-hour Youtube stream to demo how she plays and records, using Zappa's Zomby Woof as an example. She played all the instruments in real time one after the other. No sequencing. One of her fans edited into a single performance you can also find on Youtube. From what I can see, she plays entirely from memory. I don't know if it's true that she hear a song a few times, then recall it perfectly including any lyrics. I can barely remember "Hey Ho, Let's Go" by the Ramones, and she sings every word and plays every instrument on a cover of Zappa's Montana. She performed piano at the recent Keith Emerson Tribute in Birmingham, England, along with a full orchestra. Of course she couldn't see the conductor, but the performance was seamless and exhilirating. I'm going to drive 6 hours to see her perform with her jazz trio next week near Los Angeles.
Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
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Posted: April 21 2017 at 18:28
Hi,
"^ Wow ! Just WOW
Prodigy. Gifted. Incredible talent.
Thanks for posting "
Her album "Listen" is actually even better, specially as it is not a rock album perse, and is more jazz influenced, if that can be said, although I would suggest that the whole thing is more orchestrally inspired than jazz/rock or any other type of suggestion for her music.
It has touches of many of the jazz greats in the middle of it, however they are so tastefully involved in the rest of the music, that it is almost impossible to say ... that this is a piece inspired by this person or that person, the completeness of the pieces are so much like listening to classical music, however, this time properly mixed with an electrci guitar, drums and the like, where most folks that try that are not willing, or capable of using both together, rather than favor the rock guitar (Oldfield) or simply just favor the show tune (Boston Pops), and not present the new music and compositions as they need to be shown ... absolutely terrific material and album, and in so many ways, progressive, but not likely to be as heard as it could and SHOULD.
Excellent music all around, by a very gifted person, not only player, but composer with an excellent talent for telling a story with her own music, even if this is strictly in your ear!
Absolutely lovely stuff!
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com
Joined: November 24 2016
Location: Calabasas
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Posted: April 16 2017 at 20:30
Tom Ozric wrote:
Who is Rachel Flowers ?? I guess she's a bassist.....
She is a multi-instrumentalist. Keyboards, bass, guitar, and flute are her main instruments. Everything on her soundcloud page is played, mixed, and mastered by her.
In this video she is at Gene Stopp's house playing Keith Emerson's Modular Moog while Gene was restoring it.
Here she is playing Montana with Zappa Plays Zappa in Las Vegas.
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