JacobTV - Grab It! - Kevin R. Gallagher

Video from the 2CD+DVD-box 'Shining City' played by Kevin R. Gallagher.

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GRAB IT! for tenor saxophone and boombox was composed November 1999 for Arno Bornkamp. GRAB IT ! soon became extremely popular, now regularly played and recorded around the globe.
Other versions came into being: I added an ad lib. drum part, made versions for electric violin, for percussion and also an arrangement for electric guitar with Kevin Gallagher.
I tried to explore the 'no-man's-land' between language and music. I believe that language is one of the origins of music. So in my opinion, the roots of a lot of Afro-American music can be found in the spoken word. The musical quality of speech increases by the power of emotion, which is one of the reasons I use audio from people in extremely emotional situations.
Grab It! is based on voice samples from life-sentenced prisoners. Their world, on the fringe of society, with its heartbreaking verbal assaults moved and inspired me. The rough vitality of these shouting men formed a perfect unity with the harsh and powerful sound of the tenor saxophone.
The meaning of the lyrics becomes gradually clear during the piece, as well as the hopeless situation for the prisoners. Death row is a metaphor for life. Yet the piece is not just sad, but can also be understood as a 'memento vivere'. Life is worth living: Grab it!'
A Grab It! video by Michiel Zegers was created as a backdrop for a live performance. September 2005 Jan Willem Looze filmed Kevin, playing Grab it! downtown New York and mixed those shootings with the video graphics of Michiel Zegers.
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• JacobTV
• Veldhuis
• boombox
• rap
• electric
• guitar
• prisoner
• dope
• drugs
• rock
• Zappa
• avantpop
• newmusic
• contemporary

[Jivido]

W T F

[peopleshit144]

Fucking weird music!

hoooo ^_^

[DarkZekeX]

Beautiful guitar playing :) Cool adaptation of a great piece.

[traverd]

This song is awesome.

[mjatv]

Great, shocking, nice to be basta with traditional stuff..

[IncrediSax]

First of all , you should try this , to play together with a ghettoblaster... I play this piece on saxophone, and I know how difficult it is, so a lot of repect for this guy!!!

[CTROCK]

cool shit check me out CTROCK THE HIP HOP ROCK GUITAR ARTIST

[TICETOCAR]

the music is cool and so is this performance! as a matter of fact; I think it works better like this than on the sax/ghettoblaster it was written for.. nice job!

[bossgtten]

i agree. this music sucks...cool guitar though

[SeriousNotSerious]

is your guitar a fender john mayer?