Colin Stetson | A Take Away Show | Part 1

[MattyGrove]

He sounds like a ship full of dying whales. Fing awesome whales.

[SendInTheChickens]

fascinating stuff!

[zelupl]

sounds like a fucking didgeridoo

[moszna20]

Yes, confirmed as a bass, BUT what MODEL??????????

[SOULJAMGO]

This is illegal

[ColonelTheSlav]

He needs to collaborate with Sunn O))).

[rockinitout2012]

this, if fucking cool.

[GogsCunn]

you are fuckkin KIDDIN' ME!!! AMAZIN'!!!

[TototunArt]

this sound it's like a magma that it's cover and burn me ... awsome.

[gpfess]

this is what jazz needs, innovation

jazz has been stuck in the 60s for way to long

[br00talKidHxC]

@gpfess zorn

[SendInTheChickens]

@gpfess i hate to say it, but there is a lot of stuff like this out there - it's just not mainstream.

[escagad]

very beautifull and interesting, amazing , etc all the best.

[electrichealinghand]

quite obviously a novelty-sized sax.

[17205513]

@electrichealinghand No bass sax was very common around the turn of the last century in brass and army bands. They just became kind of extinct.

[toughbail456]

he needs to make dubstep....

[VirgoClusterDenies]

That looks like bloody hard work.

[vAbsolution]

So. Powerful. It makes me feel a little uneasy.

[Frenchibanana]

This guy is incredible. He puts all his soul into what he does and its astonishing. As a saxophone player, i admire him !

p.s. It's a bass sax. I got a baritone right beside me, and it's alot smaller !

[vmuriel]

Superb.

[ProjectSalvo]

who the hell dislikes this?!?!?!?

[GorgonDrageil]

Wow this guy perfected circular breathing. Amazing.

[lloydsaddiction]

Sounds like Mozart moving rusty furniture. Great.

[PAMVISUCRE]

I'd definetely have sax with him!

[leomtarek]

saluti e buona musica

[1ostinspac3]

i pity his poor neigbours

[icketypickety]

one word... massive!!

[thecompleteofficial]

Sounds like a Marshall stack.

[drewmcdrex]

So is he singing (yelling, screaming) through the sax as he plays? However he's getting those overtones, it's amazing! Bravo!

[SavicPanylyk]

@drewmcdrex He is yelling through the sax as he plays. It's a pretty tough technique used by lots of 20th century classical players and even some jazz players like Eddie Harris.

[tamagotchigrind]

that guy needs to collaborate with bohren und der club of gore.

[ihatekhomeini]

What the? Is this even possible, sick tune, haven't hear anything like it, and haven't herd something I've liked so much in months!

[ryan8951]

cool it with the camera work... on all your videos

[drmJB23]

Sublime

[nated103]

what being trapped inside the belly of a whale sounds like.

[prokoscho]

LOL: the latest CD by Laurie Anderson, who contributes vocals to "NHW2" and with whom Colin has collaborated on other projects, is visible on top of the piano.

[notyetaladie]

I can't help but breathe with this guy.

[G4700]

That 1 person who disliked this video must be blind, and death, and a hater.. I bet Colin took his girl friend in the second grade

[PhaethonSmoofRiviera]

@JUN34U Baritone saxes cannot reach that range. You gotta calm yourself, son.

[nebonok]

KILLING

[flopeck]

joder k pasote kompare !



[ClickRec]

GREAT!

[MrBCorporations]

IIIIIIIIIIINNNTTTEEENNNSSSEE!!­!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn't download it off of iTunes, though, but, he is surely one of the best sax men on the planet, and.....well....I am at a loss for words.....you think of a sax as a solo instrument.....but leave it to this dude to completely change all of the assumed presumptions....very different.......

[tESsEarthSnake]

1 person disliked because they only play Baritone Sax.

[Strang3rDanger]

How can someone think this is a Bari sax?

[skateplanbboard]

did you do the sound affects for Inception?

[fuzzjohn]

Circular breathin' like a boss!

[PentucketXC05]

At first, this sounded like the giant things from War of the Worlds...

[steviebizzle316]

@PentucketXC05 Probably how they made the actual sound in the film

[hustlax]

His neighbors must be pissed to live next to him. I, however, would be greatly honored.

[ricecultivationsocie]

I saw this guy mentioned on pitchfork and they said that it was all done 1 take, no overdubs, and when i heard the recording, i thought they were lying cause it sounded so impossible, barely like a saxophone. searched for video, found this, and my mind is officially blown. pun only kind of intended.

[cmatthews926]

@ricecultivationsocie haha nice.

[dannyarcher1136]

A regular sax must feel tiny after he plays this. Like when you play a bass guitar and then play an electric guitar right after.

[seaborgiumAGGGHHH]

I wish I could circular breathe

[eyburd]

this produced chills

down the length of my spine.

[monkeynuts19]

I cn understand the complexity of what he is playing. I don't like it though. :( Wonderfully talented though. x

[eruseron]

so apparently when it comes to sax, size do matter... (lame I know, couldn't resist)

[kontube]

he's got a sweet crib if that's his

[Adamdanielshaw]

5:42

[roxymarie]

Amazing. Beautiful.

PS. See Tom Robbin's "Jitterbug Perfume". Kudra and Alobar would be proud of those breathing techniques.

[adamcgeorge]

So intense

[rut8norm]

zero dislikes. i like THAT.

[gustavosenon]

puede ser que en un momento toca frases de Philip Glass?

[MforMarley]

man, i bet this guy could spit a mile.

[harrytheblurfan]

At the beginning I'm pretty much expecting a freight train to come smashing through his living room. 

[Doud92]

This guys an alien..

[FredOther]

holy freaking balls, this shit was intense!

[jarofsap704]

i looooooooove this album

[Twist9]

What?

[xxwantedxx]

so many different tones in one note ahhh!!

[kritomcr]

2:50 This is so good. Very talented !!

[Zoyfad]

@metalninja626 it's definitely a bass

[LaBlogotheque]

@Zoyfad we confirm, it's a bass sax. Look at the shape of the pipe where Colin blows, and the top of the instrument.

[JUN34U]

@LaBlogotheque I played it in highschool, It's a baritone sax.

[LaBlogotheque]

@JUN34U No, the Barytone sax is smaller. Please check on wiki, typing bass saxophone, and you'll see it's the same instrument !

[xxsmokeymcpotxx]

@LaBlogotheque Having worked with Colin at The Stone, he himself referred to it as a bari. Whether or not he's mistaken, is another issue. In the liner notes of albums he's worked on, it's credited as a bari.

[PentucketXC05]

@JUN34U Yea, and Colin has said he plays the bass sax.

[shinvokyu]

@JUN34U Nice try... but the bari sax has a much smaller bell and looks nothing like a bass clarinet. the mouth piece on a bari comes up to the top of the neck height wise while, as you can see here: the top of the sax is about a foot above the mouth piece... it's a bass. And it's fun as hell to play.

[JUN34U]

@shinvokyu yeah, now that i've seen it a few times I was wrong.

[DoctorMonkfish]

Is this a Bass Saxophone?

[metalninja626]

@DoctorMonkfish baritone sax.

[ZwienerZ]

I have never heard anything like this

[stewyjmu]

circular breathing and yelling into his saxophone?!?!?!?!?  i am amazed and sharing this with everyone i know!

[yrbns]

would love to hear him and seb rochford collaborate.

[a1addinsane]

he's got a bit of an "on the run" groove flowing in this one. awesome.

[Loonimis]

With Tom Waits shoveling in the coal.

[Loonimis]

Steampunk train I mean. (going far with it)

[Loonimis]

The way he's tapping those valves and him breathing makes him sound like a badass steam train.

[hands575]

The amount of skill this takes is ridiculous

[ChrisNagata95]

This guy blows... In a good way. 

[metalninja626]

It makes me wanna take a DEEEEEP breath. A whole full lungful.

[BadButNotSad]

That's like fuckin drrrrooooone music :)

I think it would be cool, if he played with the Sunn O))) musicians :D

[necrosean]

damn that's so intense!

[TheHaxit]

So the neighbor isn't using a foghorn after all... huh.

[TheLinxable]

That is freakin amazing. He's playing two different tones at the same time, circular breathing, and being a Bad A while doing it.

[DoctorWha]

the beginning sounds like a big fart!

[hojoslugger301]

the neighbours must hate him. so good though.

[karatekween33]

the bit he plays at the 0:28 is the same exact sound at the beginning or arcade fire's miroir noir DVD

[theneedledrop]

such an amazing musician!

[muteculture]

check out that circular breathing.

well done, colin- it was great meeting you two years ago when you played with bell orchestre in toronto!

[NathanLM]

the real Daddy Fat Sax ;D

[blueprintsmusic]

thats a sax yo.

[hidesnuki]

@blueprintsmusic bass sax (:

[Creamy360]

seems like a pretty cool tuba playing dude

[thebasementmusicians]

@Creamy360 that's not a tuba lol