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I'm touring Australia right now with Sungazer, supporting Plini with Jakub Żytecki ! The shows so far in Brisbane and Sydney were fantastic, it's so much fun to play this music to amazing crowds.

Anyway, we're playing Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne later this week, come on out to hear some shredding! 

tour with Everything Yes was sick! 

Sungazer continues touring tomorrow in Denver with Everything Yes! Get your tickets now, shows are selling out.

BASS

 https://www.sungazermusic.com/tour 

Patrick Bartley pulling the reverse uno card with the unfortunate “savior of jazz” narrative on this one in a way I think is very helpful and optimistic. 

Laufey’s music is awesome, it’s a genuine breath of fresh air to have bossa nova and mid century popular song being the hot new thing. It’s also really exciting seeing young people pick up guitars (and other instruments) to learn her music, music that has been deeply informed by great jazz musicians like Chet Baker and Ella Fitzgerald.

Love his thoughts, go check out Patrick’s channel! 

A very excellent essay on the Laufey/jazz discourse, that covers a lot of ground I missed in my video, especially with regards to whitewashing, gatekeeping, and women in jazz spaces. Check it out!

 https://youtu.be/qnT48wO0UL0?si=lRVWn... 

Bass guitar/classical guitar duet with Lau Noah on her composition The Path, go check it out! Lau is a phenomenal composer, guitarist, and songwriter, and I'm honored to be able to play with her. 

I like to think a lot about synchronizing breaths between players in these kinds of duets. Using breath as a tool of musical synchronization is especially important in working with Lau, because there are no transcriptions/sheet music for her tunes, she just sends you a recording, and you gotta figure it out. There are time signatures and rhythmic cues in her music that I genuinely have never learned how they would be represented in sheet music, and so "learning the breath" is It's a rewarding and ear-opening challenge!

Beyond that, bass guitar as a voice in an instrumental duet is so tricky to work with, because it has to forgo all of its rhythm section role and act solely as a strong melodic voice. Blending tone can be a challenge, and you really have to think of the instrument as something else entirely.

Hope you enjoy!

Adam 

What if disco, but lots of chords?  

I had fun collaborating with  @JoshTurnerGuitar  (and  @JoshHarmon  and Jim Hogan and Julia Chen!) on a cover of a lost Steely Dan tune, The Second arrangement. 

Ahh! Love this video. So much creativity went into it - microtonal musical sounds expressed through little vignettes at a dinner party. Bravo! 

Sungazer is going on tour this fall!

We have many music rhythmic experiments to do on our audiences (research for potential future videos, lol) so come out if you like clapping and dancing awkwardly to weird jazz fusion. 

 http://www.sungazermusic.com/tour 

Touring with Plini! 

Sungazer has been on a month-long North American tour that’s been kicking my ass with Plini and the amazing Jakub Zytecki. I’m learning a lot about how music is done from some absolutely incredible musicians and crew, and I’ll be sharing some of it shortly, but if you want to check us out, there are some tickets still available for the Texas shows.

Ever onward and upward!