Just moi this time around. Always looking for like-minded folks to hook up with, however. Electric or acoustic, digital or analog, it's all the same to me as long as you're like-minded. Did I say that already?
Influences
Lots of mainstream stuff, like, um, well you know, lots of stuff...Also, for this current musical incarnation of mine, fusion artists like Metheny and Mays, Hancock, Corea, Davis, etc. Especially Pat and Lyle. Man, that big open prairie sound. I'm trying to conjure up my version of something like that.
Sounds Like
Mark Adamczyk presents his unique vision of jazz/rock fusion by combining live electric guitar and voice with prerecorded backing and computer control to provide a rich, mellow soundscape of original compositions and out of the ordinary arrangements of familiar standards. I think it sounds decent. Check me out and tell me if you agree. Entries will be judged on originality.
Record Label
Some of the biggest labels have totally ignored me
Mark Adamczyk has been dabbling with guitar playing for years. In 2008, he decided to get serious. About his guitar playing. “I’m serious,” he is quoted as saying, “about my guitar playing.” So, he put together a bunch of songs, which he is fond of calling his “musical collection of urban prairie plants,” grabbed his guitar, which he is fond of calling “my guitar,” and started playing out this past spring. Everywhere Mark plays, he receives enthusiastic comments. “Mom, that man has a guitar!” “Do you know anything by Santana?” “Are you going to be loud?” “What happened to the gal who used to play here? Is she ill?”
(Actually, the manager of Bill’s Blues Bar in Evanston really did say, “Your music went in my ears and melted in my mind,” which Mark takes to be a compliment.)
All the pieces played by Mark are composed and arranged by, um, Mark. A couple of pieces are arrangements of old, old melodies. (If you recognize any, you get an “A”.) Most of the originals were composed at the pianoforte (French for “keyboard”). Nonetheless, the guitar ends up getting to play the melodies, which is so unfair, but there you are.
Mark is currently begging--er, correction--gigging (French for “begging”) around town, trying to find a venue or two to call home. Someplace where the patrons enjoy musical urban prairie plants with melodies played on a guitar, as unfair as it is. If you have any suggestions of some restaurant or bar or appliance store where Mark might ask to perform, please forward your suggestion to him.
Thanks for reading about the author. Thanks for listening to his stuff. Thanks for just being you.
haha wow dude. thanks so much :) likewise! best wishes on your project(s) right now we've all got something lined up, so we won't be out of the music making community for long (if at all). i find it hard to believe that someone actually remembers playing any shows with us. .. thanks again! ethan
Thanks for the request, Mark! That "effect" at the top of "One for My Sisters" is a Gibson L-5 custom through a vitage Leslie cabinet with some pre-amp tweaking, i.e. as an after effect prior to the mixing board.
Best wishes on the Group; hope those upcoming gigs go great!
Mark- thanks for the kindness and flattery regarding The Darkest Sun. Glad there are folks like you out there who will still sit and listen to a track! (And won't dismiss it for the production asthetic)
I was pretty impressed w/ myself as well. The egg was raw. The question is-- would it work on a random regular day? I wouldn't know, I've never tried it.
THE GIVING TREE BAND + GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Thursday March 26, 2009 9pm @ MARTYRS' (3855 N. Lincoln Ave Chicago) Tickets only $10 (800) 594-TIXX Hope to see you there!
Yo Mark. Your profile's looking sweet these days. Some funny stuff there, got me laughing... and I am deeply honored to be quoted. Upside down? Doesn't really matter how you land here in Cali this year - there is so much snow. ~even more than Chicago!~
Mark, thanks for the kind words. Those are much appreciated - I took a listen to your songs and I'm feeling your sounds, the instrumentals are great! Keep on working hard!
