Floyd Fernandes: mumbai's funking fusion monster

News:
03-11-2008:
Thanks to Sunny Dsouza for letting me know about Floyd Fernandes. Floyd Fernandes has some great improvisational and phrasing skills. I think you'll like him!

Floyd Fernandes - Funky Fusion impro


Floyd Fernandes - Insane Hybrid Technique


Floyd Fernandes - Funky Fusion


Floyd Fernandes - Blues impro1


Floyd Fernandes - Blues impro2


Background:
Floyd Fernandes, is from Mumbai in India. More details to follow...

interview

Floyd Fernandes is an electronic engineer, playing in his first gig in the band. He has also been playing rock. Alvares chose Floyd because of his vagrant extents of imagination. "We just need to tame him," he says with a tacit smile. Alvares also ventures to call him Einstein on the guitar. Fernandes loves jazz and he says when people are cool, music is very easy to play. He also writes music and assures that the next time the band plays in the city, it will have some original music to showcase. What annoys Floyd though is the elitist snobbery of the jazz aficionados. He relates, "Some of the jazz musicians have a chip on their shoulders and they impede the growth of jazz music. They played some jazz-rock, funk jazz and some blues.

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