dotRock
dotRock is a collaboration of Paul Aziz and Michael Ruris. They met in 2005 and quickly realized they had a similar musical vision of integrating live music with electronic production. It wasn’t until the beginning of 2008 when their ideas began to materialize. They have played a dozen shows or so over the past few years highlighted by multiple curbside performances at the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco.
With laptops and guitars as there tools, they simultaneously create music on the fly while feeding off of each others sounds. The flexibility and the creativity of their musical style is definitely worth keeping your ears open for. Stay tuned!
dotRock live at Amnesia in SF (visuals courtesy of Andy Miller)
Pick Hop
Banjos, Mandolins and Beats? what! say it ain’t so…
my former monkeyGrass band mates Robby Loeb (Buffalo 5 Piece)
and Dane Halter-Mandolin collaborate on this experiment whenever we are in the same city
Click on the titles of the tracks below to listen to some sketches
