Guitarist seeking to form tribal psych band/collective

Austin TX

Description

I come from a punk/post-punk background, but am trying to unlearn some of that to make room fuzzed-out '60s-'70s sounds from Brazil, Africa, Jamaica, Germany, Southeast Asia, etc., as well as free jazz. Think Goat (the one from Sweden), early Funkadelic, Can, Neu!, various Zamrock compilations, Tropicalia, Lee Perry, Kikagaku Moyo, Pharoah Sanders, the noiser side of the Velvet Underground, Dengue Fever, Fela Kuti, fusion-era Miles Davis, etc. Obviously, I'd like this to be very rhythm-forward, i.e., drums with less focus on cymbals and more attention to the skins. Could be traditional setup, or bongos or something more. I'd like to start jams based on a rhythm and a bassline, and build the harmony and riffs off of that. At some point, I'd like to incorporate horn(s). Having played with horns before, you usually have to have some charts to show those folks first, but if you're a multi-instrumentalist, or more improvisationally inclined (i.e., you dig Ornette and Pharoah), then maybe it's best to get you involved at the outset. I don't know much about horns except that you sometimes have to accommodate them by playing in weird keys like E-flat, but that's fine. I do want vocals, and I'd like to have a strong female presence to help create a tension with the masculinity of the rhythm section and the overall wall of sound. Maybe it's two women gang-chanting like in Goat. Or some call-and-response thing like Fela had. Whatever. As for me, I've been playing guitar for 25 years, been in various bands, and have probably over-invested in various effects pedals, but I like to make up in texture and atmosphere what I lack in technique. If this sounds conceptual, experimental and out-there, I guess it is, and I'm not sure I've got the chops to pull this off. But I can't think of anything more interesting to do musically. So perhaps with a couple of sympathetic co-conspirators, we can pull this off, i.e., make a noise that makes people shake their asses in a new direction and leads to few local gigs and maybe an EP or some such.