Rick McLaughlin | Bassist
Glastonbury 2008 and Paris 2006
The Ethiopiques gig (Either/Orchestra with Mahmoud Ahmed, Mulatu Astatke, Alemahyu Eshete, and Getachew Merkurya) was broadcast on BBC television. But you already know that. Well, here are a couple of examples of the show (starring some nice shots of the AlterEGO):
Viaggio in Milano
If you happen to be in Milan, Italy this weekend, come to our show! The Either/Orchestra is playing at Teatro Manzoni, for the Apertivo in Concerto festival. This gig stars the great Ethiopian musicians, Mahmoud Ahmed and Mulatu Astatke. More and more about the music can be found right here in my website. Info on [...]
Discography
The first album I ever recorded was with a singer-songwriter in Des Moines, IA during the winter of 1991. Since then, I have been blessed to work on projects from a very wide variety of genres, and most of the CDs I’m on actually do quite a lot of genre-bending.
In 2003, I released Study of [...]
2008 and Beyond (take 2)
Sitting here in my hotel room, thinking about tonight’s gig in Denver with the great Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed, it dawned on me that there were a few more things about 2008 that I wanted to mention. I started the conversation in my last post.
2008 and Beyond
Good God. Months have passed by since my last post. It’s almost like I have been so overwhelmed by life that there has not been time to post anything new. It’s not like I’m out of ideas. No, in fact, if I can find the time somehow, I have a backlog of material, plus new [...]
Ethiopiques Round Up
Needless to say, this was a fantastic summer. I visited Holland, Germany, lovely Ohio, Toronto (which lived up to its “Rush’s hometown” vibe – it rocked), and England. I also played Lincoln Center in NYC, and spent 30 hours in Ireland (had Guinness at the airport at 10am on a Saturday – it was excellent, [...]
Ethiopiques at Lincoln Center (take 2)
It’s Sunday afternoon here in lovely (and I really mean it) Boston. It doesn’t really feel like Sunday afternoon, though, but that’s because of the crazy schedule I managed to keep in the past week. Briefly, it involves a drive to NYC on Tuesday for a 5 hour rehearsal, a gig at Lincoln Center on [...]
Ethiopiques at Lincoln Center
I’m back in Boston for a few minutes, packing up and heading to Logan in order to make my way to our gig in Ireland tomorrow. Pretty fun summer, I must say. Anyway, last night we played a great concert for a million of our closest friends (seats 3500, standing room only, people [...]
Either/Orchestra on Musinetwork
Speaking of Joel, he stars in this video, which was filmed on an Either/Orchestra tour of Holland and Germany last May. He’s the “Spanish” speaking talking head at the end. Musinetwork is run by E/O pianist Rafael Alcala, the gent in the blue hat who introduces the whole thing.
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More Ethiopiques Video
My friend Joel (groovy trombone player in the Either/Orchestra) sent me this link to still-more Ethiopiques audience video from our concert at the Barbican in London. This song is Ashkaru (aka Embi Ba, aka Gouragigna), sung by the great Mahmoud Ahmed.
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Totally inspired and dying [...]
