{"id":117719,"date":"2022-08-06T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=117719"},"modified":"2022-08-06T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T15:27:00","slug":"sound-and-sight-irme-de-jonge-uomo-universale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/sound-and-sight-irme-de-jonge-uomo-universale-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound and Sight: Brandon Joseph Munday \u2013 \u201cNotes to Discovery\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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No other bass guitarist in the Huntsville area has refined such a sophisticated approach to accompaniment and soloing as Brandon Joseph Munday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adventurous, playful, and experimental, Munday attacks bass like a kid on a scavenger hunt, often astonishing himself as much as he dazzles listeners, at every turn of a phrase, chord progression, or chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discovery best describes Munday \u2019s overall attitude to music on bass, guitar, and composition. He is an explorer, pushing the boundaries of his understanding, skill, and aptitude and always searching for new formats of musical expression.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s not surprising that Munday has formulated his virtuosity on both the electric bass guitar and stand-up double bass by modeling jazz masters\u2013modern and historic. Munday is often compared to the influential bassist, “Jaco” Pastorius, whose legendary solos with modern fusion jazz artists like Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, and Weather Report, are still marveled by bassists worldwide. Munday has studied and absorbed the masterful bass designs from Ray Brown to Charlie Mingus, and Paul McCartney to Victor Wooten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within weeks of his beginning on the bass, Munday was on stage learning the instrument, teaching his fingers to respond to his ideas, and facing the immediacy\u2013the high wire act\u2013that only live performance can instill and perfect. He learned by fear. He learned by doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he was not on stage working or rehearsing with friends, he was studying. \u201cLearning lots of songs too, I would just spend like hours learning an album. I’d start at the beginning and just learn the entire thing, really. I\u2019d just come home from school and play, then my dad would come downstairs and just turn the power off and tell me to go outside because every day I\u2019d go home and play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt first I learned Black Sabbath. Then, when I was learning all that (Led) Zeppelin stuff, and Jimi Hendrix, that’s how I got into blues. Then I started to realize that a lot of the stuff they were playing was covers or different versions of older stuff and that’s how I found out about Willie Dixon and Robert Johnson. Then I discovered Oscar Peterson when I was probably in, like, grade nine or something… and that got me into the jazz. Then all of a sudden I found out about Jocko and Victor Wooten and all these other people. Now I’m all over the place!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fearlessness toward the instrument provided Munday access to almost every genre to which musicians attach themselves. Whether he was in a rock band, folk setting, reggae, or funk, Munday could set the groove and enhance the outcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is particularly cherished for his soloing. Munday can get inside a song and insightfully reimagine the melody played octaves lower or slower or sped up or transform the feel and mood of the piece.  Everyone remembers a great guitar solo or horn solos or vocal crescendo but to have a bass guitar lead the way is a feat worth hearing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are two examples of recorded solos from Munday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n