Ash Grunwald
Friday at 17:45
Musician Stage
"Block rolling gold from dirty blues man Ash Grunwald, who was always good but just got better. Devil Called Me A Liar, produced by TZU beatmeister Countbounce, is a fat, funky grinder; heavy on bass, fuzzy on guitar and oily cool on the vocal. This is sweaty sex and street parties on a platter. Brilliant!" - Beat Magazine For his part, Grunwald is a soulful bluesman in the most pure sense. Raised in outer Melbourne, he first picked up a guitar at the sprightly age of ten. "My granddad, who is from South Africa, would play bass and I would play with him," he recalls. "He used to do a lot of home recordings. I've often speculated how much that was an influence, because everything I play now is like one big bass line." Remarkably, Grunwald was a budding blues aficionado by just 13. "I went through every blues subgenre before I got into Hendrix, Cream and psychedelic blues rock," he says. "As a teenager, I loved blues music and identified with Black American music." He became obsessed with 12-bar blues
and the likes of Buddy Guy, Albert King and Muddy Waters. What helped frame his music going forward however was some jam sessions with a friend enamoured with electronic music. "Early on, I thought it would be a good thing to combine the two." and waht a combination - this guy is a one man groove machine.
