Sound – Joshua Siegal: Recent Episodes
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Red Spot Rhythm Section presents a funky blend of roots Americana, ska, and soul. Featuring the additional talents of Bill Grady, Angela Peel, Mike Bruno, and Packy Lundholm, the eleven tracks of this album showcase originals and beloved covers.
Tracks have been featured on CHiRP Radio, WLUW, WNUR, WHCM, WLPN, WGN, podcasts, and syndicated shows.
Check out my interview about the album on the Retro Rock Roundup podcast.
In 2022, I started work on arrangements for a new Instrumental Afrofunk Septet, but the project morphed into something a bit different. I still had these arrangements hanging around, so I decided to clean them up and release them. The album includes three original compositions and five cover songs.
I hope you enjoy them!
Playing keys and bass, helping mix and produce, and hangin around in the great vibes of Electric Larryland, for the local group The Geminis – happy to share in their first single, “Kentucky Gone / Monkey“.
Red Spot Rhythm Section brings you a two-sided single of broken-hearted soul, in these renditions of hits from 1980s Britain.
Red Spot Rhythm Section presents “Won’t Back Down”, a loving tribute to the music of Tom Petty, featuring artists from around Chicago and beyond.
I created this soundtrack for the Solar Shrine fundraising video to support their architectural installation planned for Burning Man 2020.
Win For Losing is a protest song EP recorded at Audio Bistro, with some guest performers from around the Chicago reggae scene.
the Morphtet is a piano trio based around the concepts of acoustic interaction and melding barrlehouse with polyrhythms.
The Opposition Party delivers vintage afrofunk sounds with energy and fidelity driven by 4 horns, multiple percussionists, and a tight, grooving rhythm section.
Overture and Curtain music from the EP Theatre production of Michael Bettencourt's play. I also did sound design for the play, and produced the recorded music.
Mt. Greenwood Park. Performance, Audio Co-Production. Chicago, 2008.
This piece was a lot of fun – a performance to inaugurate Chicago Sculpture Works’ piece, Sound Sculpture. The inauguration of the new park and the sculpture itself was capped by a performance by myself, Jacob Worley-Hood, and some percussionists from around Chicago.
Jacob and I co-produced the audio recording for the event, which is the audio track for the video clip below. The performance was a structured improvisation created by the performers in the days before the inauguration.