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Esplanade Presents: Tessera (too) feat. Alvin Ang (sax)

wendy — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:28:31 +0000

In a somewhat stripped down version of my 5-piece jazz band Tessera, Audrey Tang (drums) and I took to the stage at Esplanade Concourse on 30 July 2011 to perform my compositions and jazz standards. With primarily just Audrey and myself, we had to get REALLY creative about the way we performed the songs…

Audrey brought a full array of percussions and I threw down the gauntlet with my 6-string Yamaha TRB and 5-string BBNE basses, plugged into a long chain of pedals: Boss GT6B > Soundblox Envelope Filter > Ashdown James LoMenzo Hyperdrive > Boss RC-50. Unfortunately there were no photos taken of this set-up, but I promise to do so in the next show

From chordal comping on the bass, to playing harmonics, percussive playing, tapping and soloing, I was also looping live on the RC-50 in order to layer up the music for a richer tone. Audrey backed me up playing grooves and ambient percussions, as well as singing to jazz standards where we were joined by Alvin Ang who proved to be an astute saxophonist with wonderful improvisations and solos.

I was glad to see the entire Concourse packed from end to end with a very appreciative audience, despite the fact that most of the show was just bass and drums! We were also fortunate to have a very patient and intuitive sound engineer who heeded our technical requirements (especially my set up which was quite massive for a bass player) and gave us a great mix both on our monitors (all 5 of em’) and FOH speakers.

Thank you to those who made it down to watch us and for those who missed the show, I will be putting up videos real soon! Watch out in this space.

Tessera Enters Photo Studio

wendy — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:35:43 +0000

After some deliberation, the girls decided it was time we hit the studio for some studio shots. After half a day of make-up, hair teasing, and various other things that stylists do, we finally got it all together for the photographer!

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Tessera is

Drums: Audrey Tang
Keyboards: Sharon Nunis
Violin: Shumei Yap
Bass: Wendy Phua

For booking inquiries, email wamusicmgt[at]gmail.com

James Lomenzo Clinic Photos 16 Nov ’10

wendy — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:58:39 +0000

Managed to get some shots taken with James at the clinic, including this moment backstage in the artist room. Sweet!

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The Fusion Project@Tab Photos 16 Dec ’10

wendy — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:38:24 +0000

Amidst all the frenzy during the show, I managed to snap some photos with The Fusion Project backstage in the artist room at Tab. That’s Mel Gaynor of Simple Minds of the left and Stephane Deriau-reine on the right.

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Photos – Wendy Phua Quartet Esplanade 22 Jan 2010

wendy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:08:21 +0000

The photos from the Esplanade 22 Jan 2010 are finally ready! Here they are in full splendor!

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Photos taken by :

Anton Chia
(+65) 91725811
antonc108@gmail.com

II Yamaha Endorsement Workshop Pictures

wendy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:36:22 +0000

The workshop went great and turnout was excellent! This workshop marks the 2nd time I am using the RC50 outside the safety zone of my home studio and it was a relief that everything went according to plan

To those who made it down despite your painting schedule, wrong train stop, oversleeping, to sell me the H4 etc, a BIG SHOUT for being such a wonderful audience.

To those who couldn’t make it cause you excitedly came to Yamaha but on the wrong day, had to do recordings, was out of town, performing somewhere or jamming, no worries, here are pictures from the show. And videos will be up next! Enjoy

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