Sean Mccaul

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part 4

Album: alone

Released: Jun 4, 2008

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Genre: Other
Location BROOKLYN, New York, US
Profile Views: 19205
Last Login: 10/7/2011
Member Since 2/19/2006
Record Label Unknown Indie
Type of Label Indie
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Sean McCaul is a New York City based musician and composer. He started playing the drums when he was 8 years old and the vibraphone when he was 13. He also plays the piano, guitar, bass, harmonica and sings with a really high voice. .... The vibraphone is a very heavy and large instrument that resembles a xylophone and sounds like angels. Sean pushes it around on a handtruck and plays music any place that he feels comfortable..... He has played on some great records; "Naqoyqatsi" (Philip Glass/ Yo Yo Ma), "La Aventura", "Back Numbers" (Dean and Britta), "Hooked" Lucy Woodward", to name a few. Sean's own record's include "No Words", "Plastic Aluminum", "McCaul Vaillant", "Make It Shiny For Glockenspiel Galore" and his most recent effort, "Alone"..... Currently, Sean McCaul and Phil Kester have a band called Xylophone People and are working on a forthcoming album of original music..... E-mail Sean at vibalot2@hotmail.com.... Here is What the Scribblerist had to say about Sean McCaul.... Sean McCaul, Subway Virtuoso April 16, 2008 � 2 Comments.... I’ve seen Sean McCaul play on the Union Square L-train platform three times now, and each time I haven’t had the $10 in cash to buy his (presumably) self-produced CD. I need to put a ten-dollar bill in each of my bags and backpacks and be prepared, Hardy Boys style, to meet risk with success..... I want McCaul’s album because he’s brilliant. I remember coming down the stairs to the platform a couple years ago and being surrounded by soothing noise, rising and descending tones of an ethereal, emotion-made-sonic quality. McCaul plays the vibraphone, a rack of metal bars of specific length that, when struck, emit a note; depending on how you strike the bar and the type of mallet used, it can sound either like a rolling wall of noise, liquid and intermingling, or a staccato, if mellow, sort of polyphonic drum. I’ve only ever heard vibes played on a Miles Davis album before McCaul..... He is a slight, calm presence on the stewing chaos of the platform. I remember a black t-shirt with black jeans and work boots, eyes on his vibes unless someone drops a bill into his case and then he’ll nod his thanks. His eyes bespoke concentration and an interior peace I can only imitate. I assume he plays his own compositions. His music moves quickly but unhurriedly to cover a range of moods, and he uses space to fine dramatic effect. There is also a narrative quality to his music. I get the sense, more immediate and vivid than another instrument, that he’s telling me a story that takes place over a period of years..... Poking around the internets, I found a lone video of McCaul at work. Unfortunately, it cuts off before his stream-of-consciousness mellowification can build to full effect, alas. I hope to see him again soon, and this time have $10 in my wallet..... scribblerist // May 14, 2008 at 2:53 pm | Reply.... Success! On the evening of May 13 at approximately 8:30 PM teh Scribblerist obtained McCaul’s cd, “Alone.”....
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