Thursday, September 20, 2007

A New Duo With a New Sound



PROTOCOL is a fully sequenced Guitar/Harmonica Duo specialising in Jazz and Jazz/blues influenced music. But much more than that, They are multi-instrumentalists and vocalists with a penchant for visual comedy and presentation that make them an ideal act for Asia and the Pacific region. The arrangements are absolutely unique but still have the original flavour of the particular song and the sequences are to be heard nowhere else than at a PROTOCOL show.

Featuring rich orchestration that captures the feel and tone of the time, their Jazz standards set new parameters in sequenced performance. To embellish all this, they play some 15 instruments between them including sax, trumpet, slide and dobro guitars, congas and percussion- and keyboard. With about 80 years of music experience between them, PROTOCOL are really a 4 hour concert with superb sound and presentation.

Tappy and Peter are multi-lingual and between them they speak several European languages from fair to good and are both in an accelerated program to master Mandarin. And they can talk to just about anyone about almost anything. Their knowledge of world affairs and the topic of the day is formidable and they will undoubtedly be in great demand for corporate and diplomatic functions.

Their new CD (soon to be released) is a showcase of their very unusual musical approach and Fineline Records predict good sales- especially due to PROTOCOL travelling so constantly. They have worked in or travelled to some 50 Countries between them and Peter, who is British by birth, Lived in Poland during the Communist days and Tappy lived for an extended period in Taiwan- both playing music during this period.

In the following chapters of this blog, the specifics of these two very unusual and talented guys are listed and surely will raise some eyebrows. But the proof of the pudding is as always in the eating and their first CD tells all. It is an excursion into how Jazz standards done a new way can be a whole new sound. The chromatic harmonica adds an exciting dimension to an already impressive sound. PROTOCOL is new, unusual, exciting, highly entertaining and...available anywhere in the World- LIVE.

Contact Protocol


Thailand:  0855 721 452

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