Alone With Tiger + Band in Melbourne, VIC

SEEKING

ABOUT

Currently looking for:

* Pianist / Electric Pianist / Organist
* Trumpet
* Sax (Ideally baritone)

We are a soul band looking for musicians to help bring our music to the masses. Instrumentalists required are:

Keys (Piano, Organ, Rhodes)
Trumpet
Sax (Baritone ideally)

We already been playing gigs with other musicians in Melbourne's Fitzroy, Northcote and Brunswick Areas, but feel, due to availability of some members, that we would like to involve fresh faces into the mix.

I would describe our sound as Soul with a pop sensibility and elements of funk. There's a real emphasis on composition over improvisation, we try to get all the elements working together as a whole and so often the parts are fairly simple, but we are looking for people who can appreciate this and can get the 'feel' and tone of the music just right. Musicians that are always listening to how their parts fit with the other instruments are right up our alley! Vintage is the name of the game in terms of tone.

Here is a link to our EP:

https://soundcloud.com/alonewithtiger/sets/alone-with-tiger-ep

We have since written another 6 songs or so and have perhaps found our sound a bit more in the latter songs. Our gigs are mostly originals but we did do one Mayer Hawthorne cover and are thinking about adding more covers to the mix and maybe expand to two sets more of material when necessary.

Here is our FB page if you want to take a look and see what we get up to!

https://www.facebook.com/alonewithtiger

If this sounds like your sort of thing and you think you could add some soul, please contact me.

Screen name:

alonewithtigersoul

Member since:

Oct 31 2012

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years together:

1

Gigs played:

10 to 50

Tend to practice:

2-3 times per week

Available to gig:

1 night a week

Age:

43 years

Influences

Menahan Street Band, Step Kids, Willie Hutch, Amy Winehouse, The Meters, Charles Bradley, Mayer Hawthorne, Minnie Riperton, The Bamboos, Cymande, Gil Scott Heron, Jame Lidell, Chic, Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators, Dorando... plus load of other stuff that isn't so soul/funk based.

Members Of Band

Sarah Canning - Vocals
Richard Garner - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Ryan Berg - Drums/Percussion
Julien Zanin - Bass

EQUIPMENT

Epiphone Casino, Fender Deville, Pedals: Wah, Roto speaker emulator, Barber overdrive and more pedals, AKG CS1000 mic, shure SM58.

MUSIC