“B-Loose” feat Tucker Rogers on guitar, live from The Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA on January 20, 2012, supporting Railroad Earth.
Here’s our first acoustic feature, and it’s a good one. Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun are a fiddler and guitarist from Virginia who record and perform both as a duo and with larger ensembles. They work in that Shengen zone of music that combines many styles in a hybrid that exceeds all music of origin. It’s energetic instrumental hard-folk that follows in the footsteps Michael Hedges, Pierre Bensusan, Darrell Scott, and Natalie MacMaster, with a liberal infusion of blues and jazz. Guitarist Jay Pun has true-North rhythmic instincts and very disciplined playing; on most tunes he fulfills a support role that belies his first-rate fingerstyle chops (listen to the studio version of “Atip Ouypron” on their Facebook site). And Morwenna, to put it in musicological terms, just freakin’ gets down on the fiddle. Her live performance of the Hendrix Star-Spangled Banner induces out-of-body experience.
To be young, good-looking,and prodigiously talented would be an ego trap for most. Yet these two gifted performers are far too busy encouraging other musicians and getting lost like dervishes in the joy of their music for that. When world-renowned musicians like Corey Harris and Pierre Bensusan choose to record with young artists it behooves the rest of us to pay attention too.
Facebook Page for Morwenna Lasko & Jay Pun
http://www.mojamusic.net/home.html
(Source: jaebberwocky.blogspot.com)
MoJa Quartet on The Southern Stage at The Festy II, Roseland, VA - Friday, Oct. 7th, 2011
As promised, to get ready for this weekend’s “The Festy,” here’s a lil’ tune for all the Bluegrassers out there. This is a full band version of our fiddle tune, “Coonhound” (written for a very special pup). Live from WNRN’s Birthday party last month!
Hi, MoJa Friends!!!
Happy Fall! We’re excited that the weather will be cooling down a bit and we’ll be starting work on some new music!NEW VIDEO from WNRN’s 15th BDay, celebration! A 2 for 1, “One Moore Farewell” & “Chioggia Beat.”
1st Quartet video of these tunes!!!
Wow, Cville… What a great night! Thanks to our good friends WNRN (here’s to another 15 yrs!!!). Big ups to our old friend Elizabeth & The Catapult and new friends, Ha Ha Tonka!!!
Hi, MoJa Friends!!!
We hope you all are about to have a nice holiday weekend with good family & friends. We also hope that Irene didn’t badly affect anyone too much and that if it did, the recovering is going well & quickly.
“ONE MOORE FAREWELL” (LeRoi Moore Tribute) Feat. Rashawn Ross on Trumpet
3 years already… you left too soon, ‘Roi! miss you much. Thank you for all the inspiration & guidance!!!
