New Blurb (37 words):
Around the world and into your brain, vocal adventurer and songwriter Mal Webb plays too many instruments in too many styles to too many people. He gives eclecticism a bad name, and that's Mal, whatever your language.
www.malwebb.com
Older blurbs: 100 words or less:
Mal Webb: Vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentist and songwriter. Ballads, beatbox and beyond. A jolly jaw dropping journeyman. Eclectic, ebullient and even educational. Mal Webb uses a world of vocal techniques (including pygmy yodelling and Inuit panting) and writing styles. He plays guitar, mbira, slide trumpet, chromatic harmonica, a loop recording pedal called Derek and the audience... a lot. He's a founding member of the Oxo Cubans, Sock and Totally Gourdgeous. Mal has spent a lot of time mucking about.
Like Bobby McFerrin, Aphex Twin and Cole Porter playing scrabble.
www.malwebb.com
75 words or less:
Vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentist and songwriter. Ballads, beatbox and beyond. A jolly jaw dropping journeyman. Eclectic, ebullient and even educational. Mal combines a world of vocal techniques and writing styles with guitar, mbira, slide trumpet, chromatic harmonica, a loop recorder and the audience. He's a founding of the Oxo Cubans, Sock and Totally Gourdgeous. Mal has spent a lot of time mucking about. Like Bobby McFerrin, Aphex Twin and Cole Porter playing scrabble.
www.malwebb.com
40 words or less:
Vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentist and songwriter. Ballads, beatbox and beyond. A jolly jaw dropping journeyman. Eclectic, ebullient and even educational. Mal has spent a lot of time mucking about. Like Bobby McFerrin, Aphex Twin and Cole Porter playing scrabble.
www.malwebb.com
25 words or less:
Mal Webb: Vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentist and songwriter. A jolly jaw dropping journeyman. Ballads, beatbox and beyond. Eclectic, ebullient and even educational.
www.malwebb.com
1 word or less:
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Workshop blurb (40words)
Lip to lung and round the world with Mal Webb. Explore every sound a voice can make and the physics of how it works. Beatbox (vocal percussion), harmonics, pygmy yodelling, throat singing, uvular fluttering, looping, Inuit panting and beyond.
Stage requirements for Mal Webb
In short, 3 XLR lines, a DI, a power point and a boom stand.
1) Vocal: One xlr line, a boom
stand and a power point. I have my own
dynamic mic and go through an Akai
Headrush loop recorder, for which I have all the leads, adaptors
and stuff.
2) Guitar: DI
3) Mbira (thumb piano): One xlr (canon) line for a dynamic mic I have attached to it.
and 4) Stomp box: One xlr (canon) line for a dynamic mic I have attached to it. It's actually a CD wallet stuffed with bubble wrap... it works, like, it goes doof!
Due to feedback possbilities when I'm doing many layers, I have my foldback at a minimum (which I'm sure is only good news to you). Definitely no bass rolloff on the vocal mic (I want those subs) and go for a warm jazzy sound on the guitar. If you're short of lines, I can cope with just the vocal and guitar DI (as above). Thanks, thine a warbling, Mal
2) Guitar: DI
3) Mbira (thumb piano): One xlr (canon) line for a dynamic mic I have attached to it.
and 4) Stomp box: One xlr (canon) line for a dynamic mic I have attached to it. It's actually a CD wallet stuffed with bubble wrap... it works, like, it goes doof!
Due to feedback possbilities when I'm doing many layers, I have my foldback at a minimum (which I'm sure is only good news to you). Definitely no bass rolloff on the vocal mic (I want those subs) and go for a warm jazzy sound on the guitar. If you're short of lines, I can cope with just the vocal and guitar DI (as above). Thanks, thine a warbling, Mal