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Billy and Bonnie - Digi Download
  • Billy and Bonnie - Digi Download
  • Billy and Bonnie - Digi Download
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Billy and bandmates Nabanita (Bonnie) Sarkar and Bridger Dunnagan had a day off tour in Kolkatta and stopped into Blue Monk Studio for the afternoon.

From the CD Art: It was a chance meeting in Shantiniketan. The pair spent that evening playing and listening to Doc Watson and Bengali Folk Tunes. The music wasn’t meant to stop there. They began playing music with The Bluegrass Journeymen and toured throughout India between 2017 and 2020. With just one day off in Kolkata in December 2018, the duo spent the afternoon at Blue Monk studios recording the Music featured on this EP.

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Six String Swing - Digi Download
  • Six String Swing - Digi Download
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"The swing music Billy Cardine is tackling on the resophonic guitar on this project is some of my all time favorite music, and in his hands, the music itself takes on an all new meaning to me. It all sounds so natural to the resophonic guitar that one is almost forgiven for not realizing that this is pretty much impossible to pull off so convincingly. Billy is definitely a rising star in the resophonic world!"

-- Mike Auldridge

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The Billy Sea - Digi Download
  • The Billy Sea - Digi Download
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"Three prolific and well-known solo artists come together on slide guitar, bass and percussion, creating unique and technically brilliant progressive Americana and world music." -Take 5, Asheville NC

Acoustic Dobro, multi-percussion, 6 String Bass

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The April Sessions - Digi Download
  • The April Sessions - Digi Download
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The April Sessions is a Jazz project with an Appalachian undercurrent, based out of Asheville, NC. The instrumentation is essentially a piano trio with an acoustic Dobro.

Billy Cardine, Chris Rosser, Zack Page and River Guerguerian came together to raise money for the Odyssey Community School in Asheville, NC. They had played together for many years in various combinations and this particular concert produced a unique and gorgeous mood of jazz.

These four fathers orchestrated time to record on a spring weekend in April 2011. The synchronistical magic continued to unfold in the sessions at the Sound Temple Studios with the expertise of engineer Michael Hynes and owner Robert George.

There was an organic chemistry between the musical friends, and within the sonic qualities of the instruments involved. The sessions proved to be a breath of fresh air for all involved, and the music was imaginative, live and adventurous (and without the use of a click track).

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Yours To Find - Digi Download
  • Yours To Find - Digi Download
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Billy Cardine, from The Biscuit Burners, Acoustic Syndicate, and the BIlly Sea, releases a new recording featuring his distinct voice on the slide guitar in a wide variety of band settings with musical friends and heroes from all over the USA. Cardine's hometown of Asheville, NC is a hot spot for roots music artists, and whenever possible, as groups were traveling through, he would arrange for a studio session. After several years, enough of these, sometimes impromptu, recording sessions came to fruition. "Yours To Find" emerged as a fully realized album and a veritable who's who of the Americana scene. 

"Yours To Find" features Billy's unique, genre-blurring approach to an array of instruments including: acoustic Dobro, Weissenborn, Chaturangui (a 22 string Indian slide guitar), Pedal Steel, Lap Steel, Banjo and Guitar. He is featured alongside musicians familiar to many Americana music lovers, including: Bobby Hicks, The Biscuit Burners, Uncle Earl, Alvin Breeden and the VA Cutups, David Via, Benny Galloway, and members of: Cadillac Sky, The Punch Bros, Town Mountain, DownBeat Project and more... 

The recording features 14 tracks, the majority of which are originals, written by Cardine and friends.  Cardine also pays homage to the roots of mountain music by having chosen an old time number, and two other throw back songs.  A refreshing approach to a solo recording by an instrumentalist, Billy chose to pack this record full of great singing, with over half of the material devoted to songs with voice. Two of the tracks were adapted by Cardine from a radio interview by Pete Wernick back in the 70's with the father of bluegrass music himself, Bill Monroe, discussing what he likes and doesn't like about bluegrass music.

On "Yours To Find", Billy uses the slide guitar as part of the fabric of the songs as opposed to using the songs as a bed for specifically showcasing his instrument. There are plenty of melodic fireworks, but they remain grounded in the aesthetic of the songs. While he has taken in influences from all corners of the world, on "Yours To Find", those sounds manifest themselves in a very transparent way, adding yet another layer of color to Billy's adventurous, playful and emotionally expressive approach to making music.

"I couldn’t have picked a better example for them [...than BillyC] of where the Dobro is now or what the possibilities are with the instrument.” -- Jerry Douglas 

"Billy Cardine proves to be one of the new generation of resonator guitar players who truly understands the possibilities of the instrument." -- Bluegrass Unlimited

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Looking Forward, Looking Back - Digi Download
  • Looking Forward, Looking Back - Digi Download
  • Looking Forward, Looking Back - Digi Download
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Billy Cardine: Looking Forward, Looking Back

Moog Lap Steel powers groundbreaking EP exploring uncharted expanses of Ameritronica

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (September, 2011) Mix cutting-edge electronic vibration control technology with an instrument born on a train track, put it in the hands of musical omnivore Billy Cardine and the result is music with one foot in the past, one foot in the future and both ears wide open. Refining a lifetime of musical influences and liberating them with a combination of string and studio wizardry, his new EP Looking Forward, Looking Back shines a light on a musical future true to its roots yet constantly growing and evolving. To know where you’re going though, you have to know where you’ve been... The story goes that the lap steel guitar was invented in the 1880s by seven-year-old Joseph Kekuku as he walked along a Hawaiian railroad and experimented with playing his guitar using a metal bolt he found. By the 1930s, Hawaiian music had become one of the first waves of American interest in exotic “world music” and the lap steel became the first stringed instrument to be electrified, predating Les Paul’s first electric guitar. Also in the ‘30s, the Sacred Steel tradition was born in African-American House of God churches, fueled by the low cost and highly expressive nature of this new instrument. From there it spread to many far- flung homes, including Indian classical music and American country and bluegrass, the genres in which it and its musical progeny, the dobro and pedal steel guitar are most closely associated. Fast-forward to the present... While a spin across the radio dial today results in very little country music featuring the lap steel, the instrument has been embraced by a number of innovative players pushing musical boundaries, including U2 producer Daniel Lanois and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline. The lap steel guitar itself is now even more suited to “boundary pushing” with the introduction of The Moog Lap Steel, an instrument that brings state-of-the-art control technology to the instrument born on a 19th century Hawaiian train track. It incorporates the same electronics that earned The Moog Guitar numerous industry accolades including Guitar Player Magazine's Reader's Choice Award, Electronic Musician Magazine's Editor's Choice Award, NAMM "Best In Show" honors, a “Best of What’s New Award” from Popular Science magazine and a Mix Foundation TEC Award.

Billy Cardine is an Americana/Bluegrass phenomenon who has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to the Ryman Auditorium and Bonnaroo. He is a member of the renowned Americana band Acoustic Syndicate and leader of the new music ensemble The Billy Sea. He also studied in India and will perform at the 2011 Bangaluru International Arts Festival with chitravina master Ravikiran. Billy was instrumental in the development of the Moog Lap Steel and played an early prototype for its debut at Moogfest 2010.

“In one of those moments of wonderful synchronicity, I met Billy about the same time I finished the first Moog lap steel prototype which I had dubbed “The Monster” said Moog Music’s Chief Engineer, Cyril Lance. “Billy and I got together and the first music he made on this crude instrument was stunning. It was immediately clear that not only was Billy perfect for this instrument, but the instrument was perfect for Billy. This began an extremely rewarding collaboration that resulted in the current Moog Lap Steel.” Combining the unique expressive qualities of the lap steel with the innovations of the Moog Guitar results in an instrument with unlimited sonic potential. Like the Moog Guitar, it is in not a guitar synthesizer, but features an onboard Moog filter (with control voltage input) that places it firmly in the Moog family tree and allows for some amazing creative connectivity with devices ranging from theremins to massive modular synthesizers. "For me the Moog Lap Steel represents the invention I've worked on for so many years finally taking flight on its own.” said Moog Guitar inventor Paul Vo. “Cyril Lance had the inspiration that really drove this project home. He expertly placed the same vibration control technology that I developed for the Moog Guitar into this beautifully crafted instrument, co-designed by luthier Wes Lambe. I mostly just watched. Now Billy Cardine, virtuoso of the lap steel and dobro, brings it all together and takes it to heights of musical expression that completely amaze me. I am a very grateful spectator!" “Looking Forward, Looking Back”, the historic first EP of music for the Moog Lap Steel, is the creation of a composer and player at the height of his powers in control of an instrument that extends those powers like no other innovation since it was first electrified.

The EP kicks off with the opening track “Moolodious” whose soaring melodies and pulsating beats sweep the listener along so thoroughly that it is easy to miss the technology behind the magic. While the Moog Lap Steel plays long, anthemic notes that seem to defy the laws of physics, its big brother The Moog Guitar cranks out rhythms that, although created using advanced modular synthesis techniques (routing beat-synced control voltage signals from ProTools to The Moog Guitar’s onboard analog filter), are still very much the product of strings, a pick and a guitarist’s callused fingertips... in this case, the fingertips of Moog’s Cyril Lance. “Jet Li”, the second track moves from Americana to Asiana. Inspired by the fluid movements of martial artist Jet Li, it starts with the low rumble of Moog Taurus Bass Pedals and a unique melody created with a two-handed phrasing technique impossible on an instrument without the precise sustaining abilities of The Moog Lap Steel. This may be the first recording in history in which a lap steel gets mistaken for an erhu. The title track “Looking Forward, Looking Back” takes the Moog Lap Steel and Moog Guitar in a new direction. As it unfolds, the Lap Steel’s timbre is more reminiscent of a dobro while the Moog Guitar takes on a surreal, funky banjo-like role. When the long, sustained-note melody comes in, being played on the same instrument with the same strings creates a pleasing timbral cohesiveness. “Stacks”, the most electronic of the tracks, showcases the instrument at play with its other Moog siblings. Built on a Moog filtered drum beat, the Moog Lap Steel intertwines with the sounds of the Moog Guitar and Slim Phatty synthesizer while a Little Phatty synth generates a beat-synced control voltage making the Lap Steel’s filter dance in time with the rhythm. Meanwhile other keyboards and vocal processors fill out a soundscape proving that analog and digital can get along quite nicely. The closing track, “The Curious Boo” was written on the original Moog prototype and combines sacred steel feel with an Indian approach to slide guitar phrasing. A Moog MF-102 ring modulator adds a unique metallic edge to these fluid lines. The Roman god Janus, for whom the month January was named, is depicted as having two heads, one looking into the past and the other into the future, making him the archetype of beginnings, transitions and gateways (and New Year’s parties). When listening to “Looking Forward, Looking Back”, it’s hard not to hear the music in a similar light... as a harbinger of new beginnings, transitions and gateways... as a new voice... as “Ameritronica”. It’s also hard not to hear it as just damn good music.

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These are MP3 downloads in addition to a CD by Mail 

Yours To Find: Yours To Find -- CD
  • Yours To Find: Yours To Find -- CD

Yours To Find: Yours To Find -- CD

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Billy's 2012 release featuring friends from the acoustic/Bluegrass/Old Time music scene(s)...Bobby Hicks, Uncle Earl, Paul Kowert, The Biscuit Burners, Barrett Smith, Ross Holmes, Alvin Breeden and the VA Cutups, David Via.

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Six String Swing: Six String Swing -- CD
  • Six String Swing: Six String Swing -- CD

Six String Swing: Six String Swing -- CD

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"The swing music Billy Cardine is tackling on the resophonic guitar on this project is some of my all time favorite music, and in his hands, the music itself takes on an all new meaning to me. It all sounds so natural to the resophonic guitar that one is almost forgiven for not realizing that this is pretty much impossible to pull off so

"The swing music Billy Cardine is tackling on the resophonic guitar on this project is some of my all time favorite music, and in his hands, the music itself takes on an all new meaning to me. It all sounds so natural to the resophonic guitar that one is almost forgiven for not realizing that this is pretty much impossible to pull off so convincingly. Billy is definitely a rising star in the resophonic world!"

-- Mike Auldridge

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The Billy Sea: The Billy Sea -- CD
  • The Billy Sea: The Billy Sea -- CD

The Billy Sea: The Billy Sea -- CD

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"Three prolific and well-known solo artists come together on slide guitar, bass and percussion, creating unique and technically brilliant progressive Americana and world music." -Take 5, Asheville NC

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