Drums (prog/edit): me.
Bass guitar: also me.
Elec./Acoust. guitars: me too.
Vocals: that's me again.
Backing sounds: guess who?
Arranging/editing/mixing:
Right. you got it :-)
Hi, I'm Reshef (my Internet nick is Spark). I play the guitar since 1975.
I've been playing in a few (unknown) bands during the years.
Had an electro-acoustic era for several years where I was experimenting with synth modules, sound sampling and MIDI sequencing.
Then a few years went by with practically no playing and zero creativity.
About three years ago, I sort of had a "comeback" to music productivity.
4 years ago I fell in love with the bass to the extent that I believe it should have been my major instrument all those years.
I currently own 7 of them - the Traveler Escape Bass which serves mainly for practicing and for acoustic-like sound at home recordings, the Cort Artisan A5 which is a 5 string bass and has versatile tonal options, a 2008 Fender Precision bass which has great sound and which I use mostly, a defretted Squier P-Bass with a DiMarzio pickup which serves as a fretless, a Dean Pace electric upright bass and tween Fender Ashbory bass, a red one and a black one. They look like toys but have quite intersting upright-like sound.
About a 2 years ago I've got divorced, quit my daily job and decided to concentrate in music, sound and criativity and do it for living. I've developed a unique lifestyle which makes lots of room for creativity. It involves 3 TravelerGuitar instruments, a 4-track palmtop digital recording studio (Roland MicroBR) and a flexible schedule in which I go sit at one of my favorite local coffee shops with that portable gear and silently practice on a cup of cappuccino - I plug one of the guitars/bass into the MicroBR, put on my headphones, pick one of the preset Drum&Bass patterns and one of the modeling effects and jam till smoke comes out my fingers. Of course I get looks and inquiries like "Yo! what the hell is this?" but this concept helps me improve my playing skills, come up with new musical ideas and sometimes end up with rather constructed sketches.
Lately you can find me on those coffee shops actually working on projects, editing stuff with GarageBand, Reaper, Logic, Ableton Live or Final Cut all with my cute little Apple MacBook.
I'm currently involved in several musical projects:
* Moadon Hanefesh - where I play bass and do vocals. I'm currently producing the band's debut album recorded at Kitcha studios.
* Sugar Shuster - where I play bass and do vocals.
* GRaB (Gros, Reshef and Biran) - a trio performing fresh versions of Israeli musicians (like Shalom Hanoch, Shmulik Crauss etc.), where I play bass, drums and do vocals.
* Some other projects like - composing other songwriters' lyrics, editing soundtracks, producing a spiritual holistic musical show, producing a music CD, composing a soundtrack for a documentry movie, producing and mixing music for special events etc.
A few words about the songs on the player above: Shoov - that's how I feel when I fall in love. Seems like my prayers were answered this time :-) Gever Gever - well... what can I say... a discussion with a friend about relationships triggered this one. Don't take it too seriously. Ahava b'Mishlocha - kind of a prayer to the universe for an "accurate love". The lyrics are saying it all. Forgive me - a collboration with a friend from a Home Studio users forum, a cool young rocker from Canada named Angelo White. I composed the tune and he matched the fine lyrics. Thanks bro'. Lo Zocher - a sketch recorded entirely at a coffee shop in Tel-Aviv over breakfast using the Roland MicroBR, the Ashbory bass, the Traveler Speedster guitar and my vocal. The lyrics was written by my friend Boaz Gros. Yukelele Song - an instrumental tune I've composed once while playing my Uke. This my first home recorded song where I play my Roland HD1 drums.
At the following link you can listen to songs I took part in while collaborating with other musicians from Israel, USA, Canada, Germany and Scandinavia: http://www.soundclick.com/sparkolabs
I enjoy collaborative creativity and always looking for new partners to share mutual creativity with. Please drop me a line if wish to collaborate with me. Thanks :-)
Thanks loads for the friendship. Come over anytime. Download the music and tell us what you think. We have a new album being recorded for spring release I hope you'll give it a listen. Love your sound. Hope to see you in Israel soon.
Hiya Sparklight:) how's it going? i haven't had a chance to even say a proper hello or thank you, so here i go:)
you're holding three guitars in that pic, so i assume you know something about them... (seriously). I'm in a desperate need for one, but i'm not that rich.
Holla.
How you doin?
This is Alon, man I thought you have 1 of those instuments, but 3?!
that's almost like carrying 1 whole normal bass with you. :)
great sound and music man.
cheers.
