Posted 6 years ago by Snizl for The Bodega
Bruno Major
Event Dates
6:00pm, Mon May 7th
9:00pm, Mon May 7th
About this Event
Monday 7th May 2018
Doors at 19:00, Expected finish time: 22:00
£11.00 inc. booking fee
£10.00 face value
One of the many endearing things about Bruno Major is that he doesn’t seem to have any idea – really, not a single clue – what a powerful and emotionally searing singer he is. Ask Bruno about his guitar-playing and, sheepish grin out of the way, he’ll wax lyrical about an instrument he first picked up at the age of seven, and which has seen him through good times and bad, triumphs and false starts, ever since. It comes as no surprise whatsoever to learn that Bruno studied and mastered jazz guitar (studies that saw him earning a living as a session guitarist from the young age of 16). The “extra chord” that is such a hallmark of the jazz greats – and eludes so many guitarists unversed in the musical language of the genre – is a constant in Bruno’s writing, and a quality that sets him far apart from that endless stable of like-minded peers.
You can hear it in the opening bars of Easily, one of a series of tracks Bruno has released over the past nine months. Just as the melody of the verse seems set to resolve itself, a detour occurs as he is ensnared by the beauty of another unorthodox chord.
It’s the duelling tension in Bruno’s songwriting that creates such engaging moments. In the lifts of soaring ballad Home or the struggling ode of Easily - it’s contemporary balladeering that touches something very familiar in the listener.
Bruno may still fight with his identity as a performer, but long may the battle between his two natural gifts continue. Because tension has rarely sounded this sweet.
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Doors at 19:00, Expected finish time: 22:00
£11.00 inc. booking fee
£10.00 face value
One of the many endearing things about Bruno Major is that he doesn’t seem to have any idea – really, not a single clue – what a powerful and emotionally searing singer he is. Ask Bruno about his guitar-playing and, sheepish grin out of the way, he’ll wax lyrical about an instrument he first picked up at the age of seven, and which has seen him through good times and bad, triumphs and false starts, ever since. It comes as no surprise whatsoever to learn that Bruno studied and mastered jazz guitar (studies that saw him earning a living as a session guitarist from the young age of 16). The “extra chord” that is such a hallmark of the jazz greats – and eludes so many guitarists unversed in the musical language of the genre – is a constant in Bruno’s writing, and a quality that sets him far apart from that endless stable of like-minded peers.
You can hear it in the opening bars of Easily, one of a series of tracks Bruno has released over the past nine months. Just as the melody of the verse seems set to resolve itself, a detour occurs as he is ensnared by the beauty of another unorthodox chord.
It’s the duelling tension in Bruno’s songwriting that creates such engaging moments. In the lifts of soaring ballad Home or the struggling ode of Easily - it’s contemporary balladeering that touches something very familiar in the listener.
Bruno may still fight with his identity as a performer, but long may the battle between his two natural gifts continue. Because tension has rarely sounded this sweet.
SUPPORT TBA