![]() ![]() You may have heard of us, we played here at Suwannee several times. Nate Werth: It all started for us meeting in this other band called Snarky Puppy. How did you conceptualize it and put it together? Tell us a little about the vision of this band. Over the course of the conversation Sput and Nate retraced their path from being a percussion duo to a full-blown funk band, their attachment to the city of New Orleans, and how their upcoming Ghost-Note Plays Swagism (Live) show at One Eyed Jacks during Jazz Fest will document the creation of Swagism in the very city in which it was conceived and recorded ( tickets available here).ī.Getz : Let’s begin with introducing the Ghost-Note project. Live For Live Music‘s B.Getz was lucky to track down Werth and Searight for a quick interview as the longtime friends and bandmates bounced around the hallowed Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park grounds between their myriad white-hot performances. jam session deep in the woods as the festival wound down. The collaborative magic culminated in a secret 4 a.m. The members of the band were also recruited for a variety of exciting sit-ins, as Nate, Sput, and MonoNeon got nice with the likes of Lettuce, Dumpstaphunk, and more. Such was the case at the inaugural Suwannee Rising Music Festival in early April, where the fully-formed Ghost-Note delivered a pair of powerful, extremely well-received performances. With the low-end duties in such brilliant hands, the sky is the limit for Nate, Sput, and the rest of the Ghost-Note squadron. Related: Ghost-Note Shares Official Live Video Of “Swagism” From The Vogue Part of that process was the addition of virtuoso bassist MonoNeon, whose sound, style and persona have revolutionized this band. Ever since, the duo has been collecting band members and hitting the road, refining and fine-tuning the ever-evolving live show while tweaking the band lineup for maximum impact. ![]() The former members of Snarky Puppy have lept into this phenomenal new endeavor at full speed, releasing the critically-acclaimed double LP Swagism in 2018. Of late, the funk fusion collective has been tearing up nightclubs and festivals around the world on their aptly-named Smack ‘Em Tour. Ghost-Note, the brainchild of master drummers Nate Werth and Robert Sput Searight, has been a force of nature since its inception. ![]()
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