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If you were at Winter NAMM 2006, you had many chances to see Marotta
Griesgraber perform!
Jerry and Tom play at the Sennhseiser booth.
*GREAT
NEW MAROTTA GRIESGRABER VIDEO DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE!
-Special thanks to JP
*MAROTTA
GRIESGRABER PODCAST 7.28.05 CLICK HERE!
MAROTTA
GRIESGRABER
is Jerry Marotta and Tom Griesgraber
combined together as a new subsonic power duo.
Special guests on their
debut album, Waking The Day, include Tony
Levin (Peter
Gabriel, Paul Simon,
John Lennon) and Harvey
Jones (Chris Botti) . They have been playing
sporadic gigs around the world since 2002.
Jerry Marotta plays Yamaha drums and Zildjian cymbals.
Tom Griegraber plays a Chapman Stick.
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MAROTTA/GRIESGRABER podcast
Also of note.. Spotted Peccary just did a podcast interview with Tom and Jerry.
Podcasts
if you're not familair are a new type of internet radio show. Basically.. you
subscribe
to the podcast.. and when a new show is available, it downloads to
your computer.
To check out the Spotted Peccary Podcast, visit www.spottedpeccary.com
Marotta/Griesgraber
live - Cluny, France by Didier Dureuil
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MAROTTA GRIESGRABER Interview Questions with Tom Griesgraber:
Q: I wanted to ask you a bit more
about the very special project you are working on with
one of my idols, the legendary drummer Jerry Marotta. You spent
a long period of time late
last year working on some tracks with him for a forthcoming release. How has
it been for you
to work with a drummer with such a sense of dynamics and such an ability to create
an
instant chemistry with his fellow musicians?
TG: At the risk of sounding conceited, I think
people are going to be blown away by this record.
Like you, I've been a fan of Jerry for years, and have heard most of the
albums he's best
known for,but I've never heard him do anything quite like this. Jerry's known
as a
guy who has great ideas, but I think this is possibly the first time he's had
the freedom
to do really whatever he wants on an album. The other big gem for me on
the project has
been Harvey Jones the keyboard player. He came in after Jerry and I had
pretty much
put all our parts down, and added some amazing textures and sounds. All
three of us
went for a very orchestrated approach. Although the albumhas a few versions
of
some of my solo pieces, on much of it, we really approached the music with no
real
concern about how we'd pull it off live. We just tried out ideas. Then
we tried out
other ideas. To use Jerry as an example, I think there's at least one track
where he's
got two full drum kits layered, with several Taos drum ideas underneath it all
and
probably some hand percussion as well. It's really amazing.
Q: Just like many, many other musicians
and fans around the world, Jerry is definitely very high
on your abilities. Is it possible that there may be some touring associated with
your
collaboration together?
TG: Absolutely. Our aim here isn't just
to make an album, but to launch a new band.
The first step though is for us to get the CD out. It's pretty much ready
to be mixed now,
so I'm hoping we'll have it by summer.
http://www.geocities.com/drummerinterviews/tomgriesgraber.html
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Track Listing:
1. 77 Times
2. Lowered Skies
3. In A Step
4. Bad Day at Coney Island
5. Sorrow Smiles
6. Third Estate
7. School Clothes Shopping
8. Waking The Day
9. Cluny Aftrenoon
10. Ifs Jam
Produced by Jerry Marotta and Tom Griesgraber
Engineered by Pete Caigan, Jerry
Marotta,
and Tom Griesgraber
Mixed by Roman Klun
Mastered by Chris Athens |
Marotta
Griesgraber Waking
The Day
(2005)
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ALBUM REVIEW-
Marotta Griesgraber
Waking The Day is positive escapism from a lethargic world.
This
is one of those albums that
you put on when you're driving and it really lifts your spirits to a new level.
Great melodies, catchy hooks, and all kinds of surprises at every turn. |
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CGT with Marotta
Griesgraber 2.2005
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Ten diverse tracks
that span the gamut of the far reaches in instrumental music.
MAROTTA GRIESGRABER is Jerry Marotta on drums and
percussion and Tom Griesgraber on Chapman Stick.
This band is one truly cohesive unit and a well oiled machine ready to rock.
There are some unexpected moments as well. Tony Levin shows
up on bass on two tracks, adding icing to the cake and Jerry's multi-layered
vocals on Tom
Gets Lucky in Constantinople is a real treat. Throughout the album
is also Harvey Jones on keyboards, sprinkling magic fairy dust on all those who
believe.
Clinic at HOG in Rochester,
NY 2002 |
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This
is soundtrack music from outer space and from
outside of time that is not incidental- it's
monumental . There are innumerable meter
changes that never stumble. They are flawless,
smooth, and exist below the surface, not suffering
from math rock, but succeeding due to joyous
melodies and spectacular composition.
Every time you think you have these guys figured
out they pull out
a new set of steak knives to display. |
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77
Times fills your heart with
happiness. Lowered Skies carries
a sense of foreboding nature and tension whilst
revealing unknown realities.
Tom
Gets Lucky in Constantinople is
a trip on a magic carpet through vast lands
and tumultuous topography. Ifs
Jam is time suspended in the
clouds of Jupiter before smashing into the
moons for some funky ping pong.
Bad Day At Coney Island is a
journey to the center of the Earth,…a dream where
shape-shifting is common. Sorrow Smiles is
a tribal banquet,… a cornucopia of consequences
and correlation between worlds and language. Third
Estate is a side winder slithering side
ways amongst the weeds with a labyrinth of mosaic tiles
adorning his elastic backside.
School Clothes
Shopping Is a liquefied state of consciousness
that exists in the temporal lobe and perhaps other areas
where one is open to conjecture.
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Waking
The Day is a distant cousin of 77 Times but
from a parallel universe where the concrete jungle is obliterated by
Komodo Snake Dragons and manifest density with trap doors and swinging
bookcases. Leaving
Bread Alone leaves us wanting more but settling for closure,
hinting at future prospects, and yet throwing us a bone from the unknown
passing space cruiser known as MAROTTA GRIESGRABER.
-Malcolm Moore
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Marotta Griesgraber with Peter Gabriel tribute band
at Linux
Club in Rome, Italy
2.2005
MAROTTA / GRIESGRABER is Jerry Marotta and Tom
Griesgraber
combined together as a new subsonic power duo. They
have been playing sporadic gigs
around the world since 2002. Just
returning from a brief stint in Europe, they are headed out for
another tour on the US East and West Coasts starting now! Jerry
Marotta plays Yamaha drums
and Zildjian cymbals. Tom Griegraber plays a Chapman Stick.
And those are both understatements.
Legendary drummer Marotta, a graduate
of Peter Gabriel's band, is renowned for his sense of
dynamics and creates
instant chemistry with his fellow musicians. Premier Chapman stick player
Griesgraber has appeared on the local stage before and wowed them with his
virtuosity.
With a Chapman stick it is “difficult to tell how amazing
Greisgraber's playing is,
since it is more difficult to tell what is going
on.” – Dave
Howell, fmsound
Jerry
Marotta and Tom Griesgraber Live at Montage Grille
Rochester, NY Fall 2002
Photo by Steve Czubara.
Jerry and Tom play
songs from Waking The Day
1.18.04 at the 2004 NAMM show in Anaheim, CA
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MAROTTA GRIESGRABER
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Batterie magazine
2005 |
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Waking The Day by
Marotta Griesgraber
NEW ALBUM
AVAILABLE NOW!
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