Chris Michalek - Diatonic Harmonicas made by Joe Filisko. He plays through a Sennheiser 441 for acoustic music. EV RE10 Mic into an EHX Micro Synth into MXR 10 Band EQ into the EHX HOG into the Line 6 Modulation Modeler into a MAXON AF-9 Wah pedal into a BOSS DM-2 into the Line6 Echo Park into a BAssman RI LTD ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Skinny Bishop- Fender Basses and Eden Amplification ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Martin Diamond- Drums DW Drums......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Robert Popescu - Epiphone hollow body guitars
Influences
Chris Michalek influences:
Howard Levy, Madcat Ruth, Lee Oskar, Robben Ford, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Shaheed Parvez, Nakhil Banerjee, Bela Fleck, Wes Montegomery, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Ali Akbar Khan, Glen Velez
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Mahlon Hawk influences:
Jaco Pastorius, Ray Brown, Charles Mingus, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers
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Martin Diamond influences:
Tony Williams, Dave Weckl, Billy Cobham
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Robert Popescu - Wes Montegomery, Grant Green, Charlie Christian, Joe Pass
Sounds Like
Nobody sounds like us but if you need to know we're somewhere in between Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Early YellowJackets and Weather Report.
An extremely unique experience of improvisational music comprised of hard-hitting funky beats, deep modal explorations, and jaw dropping solos by four top-shelf musicians. Their blend of jazz, funk, blues with a tasty world music flare makes all shows mind-branding.
Between Chris Michalek (harmonica,) Skinny Bishop(bass,) Rob Popescu (Guitar) and Martin Diamond (drums,) The Buddhas Groove combines over a century of musical experience to create an unclassifiable and genre-bending sonic evolution that is always red hot.
Every time the band takes the stage, each member of The Buddhas Groove dedicates every drop of their passion for music to their audience. This group of steller musicians has attracted other like-minded musicians when you consider whom theyve shared the stage with over the years including Bobby McFerrin, Bela Fleck, Brecker Brothers, James Taylor, The Yellow Jackets. The combination of the talents of Harmonica virtuoso Chris Michalek, the dazzling guitar work of Rob Popescu, world-reknowned bass master Skinny Bishop, with the driving rhythms of drummer Martin Diamond, brings fans of The Buddhas Groove back again and again.
The Buddhas Groove rich and cross-cultural sound allows them to constantly push the envelope of composition and improvisation. The eclectic nature of the band brings fans from a wide spectrum of music together for a truly profound experience
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Hey Chris...is there anywhere I can find some recorded stuff of the buddha's groove to purchase? It would make my day if I could...love your stuff! Thanks Austin
Hi Chris, Happy New Year! hope you are doing well. It was so fun playing with you and I hope to do it again sometime soon. You are amazing! big love, Cat
I am playing with Mingo Lewis (C.Corea, Santana, The Tubes etc) We will be bringing this hard funk World fusion thing out there and you will be called upon to bring your badass self up and play! Ok? Say hey to Mista Bishop for me...
Kick Ass at Rockers!!! Hope to meet up again soon! J
The New Jason Ricci and New Blood Cd is OUT from Eclecto Groove!
Produced by Grammy Award winning producer John Porter, Jason Ricci & New Blood have created a visionary and sonically explosive masterpiece that is sure to shake your foundations.
"As a lover of live music, a JRNB show is absolutely exhilarating. Imagine the best virtuoso-filled "jam band" you've ever seen (think early '90's Phish, old Fleck tones, Allmans, Robert Randolph, Derek Trucks, etc.) and then double the energy and stage presence." - Blake Taylor (Writer for Cincinnati City Beat)
"Ricci links the jazz mastery of Howard Levy, with the blues precision of Jerry Portnoy and hits speeds that make John Popper look like he's standing still." - Brad Kava (Mercury News) Click here to purchase
You were awesome! Skinny was great too! I will look frwrd to the next time we play. Lets play some Jazz tunes dudes! We will have a great time again!!! Cheers,
I hope you guys had a great time at Supersession. I wish I could have been there, but I was too busy in the studio. Right now I am producing a record in Iceland. Its after midnight and the sun is shining bright. Life is good.
You funkin Bastids got da feel and GONE!
GET DOWN OWN IT! Hey what's up with that mega Jam Session this summer? I would love to come up there and Funk up if you got the room?
