088: Greg Fox (Liturgy, Guardian Alien, Zs)
The Trap Set with Joe Wong
Joe Wong
4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Greg Fox has worked with many of the most exciting groups to hail from New York in the past decade, and his unique style also lends itself well to solo percussion music. Greg tells Joe about his childhood in Manhattan; the benefits of working at the now defunct music hub Manny's; the realization that not every promising collaboration works out as planned; and why he is excited to move forward as an independent artist.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trap Set will always be available for free, but we rely on donations from our listeners. |
| 0:05.4 | Please visit our website at thetrapset.net and click Donate. |
| 0:09.2 | Subscribe to our show on iTunes, and if you enjoy what you hear, give us a review. This is Joe Wong. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers. |
| 0:32.6 | I want to play something for you. |
| 0:55.0 | You're hearing Generation by Liturgy, featuring my guest, Greg Fox on drums. A native of New York, Fox has collaborated with a stylistically varied list of highly regarded |
| 1:01.0 | artists over the past decade, and he's developed an aesthetic fingerprint that is recognizable |
| 1:07.0 | whether he's working with others or producing his own work. |
| 1:10.0 | Greg's approach to drumming whether he's working with others or producing his own work. |
| 1:17.6 | Greg's approach to drumming exists at the intersection of technical discipline and metaphysical seeking. His latest solo release, Mitral Transmission, is inspired by his studies |
| 1:25.6 | with his mentor and past guest of this show Milford Graves. |
| 1:31.3 | I spoke to Greg in Brooklyn during his residency at Pioneer Works ArtSpace. |
| 1:37.3 | And now our conversation with Greg Fox. So you grew up in Manhattan, right? |
| 1:50.0 | I did. |
| 1:51.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.4 | What part of town? |
| 1:52.5 | Well, my parents lived. |
| 1:54.9 | My parents got divorced when I was two, and they lived on either side of Central Park basically kind of moving up and down. |
| 2:03.1 | So I've kind of lived... |
| 2:04.6 | What do you mean moving up and down? |
| 2:06.1 | Well, my dad sort of moved many times within a 10-block radius, and my mom moved a couple |
| 2:12.1 | times too. |
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