Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz
LIVE A LITTLE
Los Angeles-based post-beat scene improviser Sam Gendel teams up with 11-year-old vocalist Antonia Cytrynowicz on the quirky "LIVE A LITTLE". Somewhere between dusted electronic jazz and chipmunked showtunes? Very weird.
Gendel began collaborating with Cytrynowicz completely by accident - the younger sister of his partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz impressed Gendel when they were hanging out in her family's back yard and she improvised a song. He recorded it to his phone and later orchestrated it, building a song using his usual assembly of synthesizers, drum machine sounds, guitars, sax, and bass. The process felt so natural that Gendel suggested a session, and "LIVE A LITTLE" was recorded in one afternoon, with Cytrynowicz improvising the lyrics and melodies on the spot at Gendel played beside her.
It's quite impressive listening back that it was even possible, let alone done so quickly - the songs don't sound like sketches and the lyrical content sounds far more complicated than you'd think. Cytrynowicz has no formal training, but comes from a musical family, and while her vocals sound slightly alien - we're guessing there's an amount of processing from Gendel - there's no attempt to cover up her age. "LIVE A LITTLE" is an unusual album, but it fits comfortably into Gendel's catalogue - Cytrynowicz's vocals give his smokey e-jazz sounds a Lynch-via-Disney blur that's impossible to ignore. Worth a listen, for sure.
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Los Angeles-based post-beat scene improviser Sam Gendel teams up with 11-year-old vocalist Antonia Cytrynowicz on the quirky "LIVE A LITTLE". Somewhere between dusted electronic jazz and chipmunked showtunes? Very weird.
Gendel began collaborating with Cytrynowicz completely by accident - the younger sister of his partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz impressed Gendel when they were hanging out in her family's back yard and she improvised a song. He recorded it to his phone and later orchestrated it, building a song using his usual assembly of synthesizers, drum machine sounds, guitars, sax, and bass. The process felt so natural that Gendel suggested a session, and "LIVE A LITTLE" was recorded in one afternoon, with Cytrynowicz improvising the lyrics and melodies on the spot at Gendel played beside her.
It's quite impressive listening back that it was even possible, let alone done so quickly - the songs don't sound like sketches and the lyrical content sounds far more complicated than you'd think. Cytrynowicz has no formal training, but comes from a musical family, and while her vocals sound slightly alien - we're guessing there's an amount of processing from Gendel - there's no attempt to cover up her age. "LIVE A LITTLE" is an unusual album, but it fits comfortably into Gendel's catalogue - Cytrynowicz's vocals give his smokey e-jazz sounds a Lynch-via-Disney blur that's impossible to ignore. Worth a listen, for sure.
Los Angeles-based post-beat scene improviser Sam Gendel teams up with 11-year-old vocalist Antonia Cytrynowicz on the quirky "LIVE A LITTLE". Somewhere between dusted electronic jazz and chipmunked showtunes? Very weird.
Gendel began collaborating with Cytrynowicz completely by accident - the younger sister of his partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz impressed Gendel when they were hanging out in her family's back yard and she improvised a song. He recorded it to his phone and later orchestrated it, building a song using his usual assembly of synthesizers, drum machine sounds, guitars, sax, and bass. The process felt so natural that Gendel suggested a session, and "LIVE A LITTLE" was recorded in one afternoon, with Cytrynowicz improvising the lyrics and melodies on the spot at Gendel played beside her.
It's quite impressive listening back that it was even possible, let alone done so quickly - the songs don't sound like sketches and the lyrical content sounds far more complicated than you'd think. Cytrynowicz has no formal training, but comes from a musical family, and while her vocals sound slightly alien - we're guessing there's an amount of processing from Gendel - there's no attempt to cover up her age. "LIVE A LITTLE" is an unusual album, but it fits comfortably into Gendel's catalogue - Cytrynowicz's vocals give his smokey e-jazz sounds a Lynch-via-Disney blur that's impossible to ignore. Worth a listen, for sure.
Los Angeles-based post-beat scene improviser Sam Gendel teams up with 11-year-old vocalist Antonia Cytrynowicz on the quirky "LIVE A LITTLE". Somewhere between dusted electronic jazz and chipmunked showtunes? Very weird.
Gendel began collaborating with Cytrynowicz completely by accident - the younger sister of his partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz impressed Gendel when they were hanging out in her family's back yard and she improvised a song. He recorded it to his phone and later orchestrated it, building a song using his usual assembly of synthesizers, drum machine sounds, guitars, sax, and bass. The process felt so natural that Gendel suggested a session, and "LIVE A LITTLE" was recorded in one afternoon, with Cytrynowicz improvising the lyrics and melodies on the spot at Gendel played beside her.
It's quite impressive listening back that it was even possible, let alone done so quickly - the songs don't sound like sketches and the lyrical content sounds far more complicated than you'd think. Cytrynowicz has no formal training, but comes from a musical family, and while her vocals sound slightly alien - we're guessing there's an amount of processing from Gendel - there's no attempt to cover up her age. "LIVE A LITTLE" is an unusual album, but it fits comfortably into Gendel's catalogue - Cytrynowicz's vocals give his smokey e-jazz sounds a Lynch-via-Disney blur that's impossible to ignore. Worth a listen, for sure.
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Los Angeles-based post-beat scene improviser Sam Gendel teams up with 11-year-old vocalist Antonia Cytrynowicz on the quirky "LIVE A LITTLE". Somewhere between dusted electronic jazz and chipmunked showtunes? Very weird.
Gendel began collaborating with Cytrynowicz completely by accident - the younger sister of his partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz impressed Gendel when they were hanging out in her family's back yard and she improvised a song. He recorded it to his phone and later orchestrated it, building a song using his usual assembly of synthesizers, drum machine sounds, guitars, sax, and bass. The process felt so natural that Gendel suggested a session, and "LIVE A LITTLE" was recorded in one afternoon, with Cytrynowicz improvising the lyrics and melodies on the spot at Gendel played beside her.
It's quite impressive listening back that it was even possible, let alone done so quickly - the songs don't sound like sketches and the lyrical content sounds far more complicated than you'd think. Cytrynowicz has no formal training, but comes from a musical family, and while her vocals sound slightly alien - we're guessing there's an amount of processing from Gendel - there's no attempt to cover up her age. "LIVE A LITTLE" is an unusual album, but it fits comfortably into Gendel's catalogue - Cytrynowicz's vocals give his smokey e-jazz sounds a Lynch-via-Disney blur that's impossible to ignore. Worth a listen, for sure.
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Los Angeles-based post-beat scene improviser Sam Gendel teams up with 11-year-old vocalist Antonia Cytrynowicz on the quirky "LIVE A LITTLE". Somewhere between dusted electronic jazz and chipmunked showtunes? Very weird.
Gendel began collaborating with Cytrynowicz completely by accident - the younger sister of his partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz impressed Gendel when they were hanging out in her family's back yard and she improvised a song. He recorded it to his phone and later orchestrated it, building a song using his usual assembly of synthesizers, drum machine sounds, guitars, sax, and bass. The process felt so natural that Gendel suggested a session, and "LIVE A LITTLE" was recorded in one afternoon, with Cytrynowicz improvising the lyrics and melodies on the spot at Gendel played beside her.
It's quite impressive listening back that it was even possible, let alone done so quickly - the songs don't sound like sketches and the lyrical content sounds far more complicated than you'd think. Cytrynowicz has no formal training, but comes from a musical family, and while her vocals sound slightly alien - we're guessing there's an amount of processing from Gendel - there's no attempt to cover up her age. "LIVE A LITTLE" is an unusual album, but it fits comfortably into Gendel's catalogue - Cytrynowicz's vocals give his smokey e-jazz sounds a Lynch-via-Disney blur that's impossible to ignore. Worth a listen, for sure.