Bruno Major’s Relatively Lo-Fi Soul
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Cory’s cast is off and he’s here to tell you to “go get hip” to Bruno Major! The soulful, jazzy British singer-songwriter shares why he prefers to record in his bedroom than a studio to create his “relatively lo-fi” music. “It’s far more important to be transmitting a privacy than an audio quality,” Major says. But he’s quick to point out that you can get good audio quality recording at home and discloses his gear of choice—shoutout to the Shure SM7B. Together, they discuss the state of record labels and streaming in 2023—“if you’re making good music,” Major says, “it’ll find a home”—working with other artists—“I think what I bring to the table is probably harmonic knowledge and an ability with words…. I can’t really do it on cue”—and mental health.
On his journey from his early days as a shred-head—“I just wanted to play really fast all the time”—into classical and jazz playing, and eventually to becoming a singer and songwriter, Major elaborates:
“If you look at something like Grant Green. Grant Green is basically playing glorified blues licks over a jazz aesthetic. He’s doing very simple stuff but it’s still incredible jazz guitar because he has his own thing. He has his own voice. And crucially, he has incredible time. I kind of found my voice as a guitar player through the medium of songwriting in a strange way. Because my guitar playing on my songs is what makes my guitar playing.”
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I'm feeling good today. I hope you are. I'm feeling good because I got my boot off. I was in this ortho boot for the last several weeks. And, you know, I've been dabbling with taking it off. But it's gone now. It's gone now. I just got to brace. What happened? You might ask. Well, I was at this |
| 0:22.8 | festival and I had literally five minutes from sound check to a photo shoot thing that I had to do |
| 0:30.0 | for the festival. I had five minutes to eat. So I was sprinting. I mean, I was running full speed, |
| 0:37.6 | tripped over a cable run, yanked my ankle. Sucker was bruised to oblivion. |
| 0:44.6 | Swalling up for a few weeks. But I'm feeling good now. I'm feeling great. I'm back in action. I'm mobile. |
| 0:49.8 | I feel good. My strength is back. Feels good. Not hitting the skateboard again yet, though. |
| 0:55.2 | That's tough. I was in Des Moinesne this weekend they got this super dope skate park i wasn't able to hit it though anyways |
| 1:00.8 | i was on tour europe it was so good honestly it was my biggest tour yet all sold out i could not |
| 1:08.5 | believe it it was so much fun we had a blast ban has been sounding as |
| 1:12.0 | good as ever i can't believe it and i'm excited because we're doing a u.s tour coming up too so if you |
| 1:17.2 | are on the west coast or just the west part of the country texas all that too come hang in a show |
| 1:23.8 | come say hi i got a little VIP thing we're doing too and hit an acoustic set for it |
| 1:29.0 | because i got to get my acoustic on right got to get the acoustic on so i'm going to do a little |
| 1:34.3 | acoustic set for a VIP thing and then we do the full show also with lalom are you cats hip to |
| 1:40.6 | l-loom yet this band is cool check them out out. L-A-L-O-M. |
| 1:45.7 | And Monica Martin is coming out as a special guest to be singing with me on that tour. |
| 1:49.3 | Very excited. |
| 1:51.2 | You know what else I'm excited about Bruno Majors on the show today? |
| 1:54.1 | Bruno is a dope singer-songwriter and guitar player. |
| 1:58.9 | Really, really cool stuff. |
| 2:01.2 | I have been hip to Bruno for a lot of years, |
| 2:03.6 | just from internet stuff, |
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