Backstage with Big Gigantic: what’s next for the electronic jazz duo

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As Big Gigantic wraps up their fall tour, I got the opportunity to sit down with the men behind the funk.

Big Gigantic played a killer show on Thursday night in Tallahassee. They showcased their diverse musical talent, as well as some of their new upcoming tracks. After the show, drummer Jeremy Salken and saxophonist Dominic Lalli told me about what the upcoming year has in store for the Colorado based EDM funk band:

Photo: Chester Pink

 So, you mentioned on stage that you were releasing a song in December, can you tell me a little bit more about that?

Dom: “Yes! December fifth. It’s our collab with NGHTMARE and it’s called “Like That”. We played it tonight. It’s definitely going to be a good one.”

 Any plans for more new music after that?

Dom: “Actually, beginning of next year we will start releasing a bunch of new stuff. A bunch of singles that will eventually lead into an album.”

 Can you give me any preview on the vibe of the album?

Jeremy: “We played some of it tonight, but it still has some room to grow.”

Dom: “Yeah It’s still getting there, it’s not fully developed but that’s kind of fun. It’s still in that middle stage where there’s some room for us to do some creative stuff, so we’ll see but it is coming together nicely for sure.”

So, I’d love to know background info on you guys, how did Big G come to be?

Dom: “So, me and Jeremy used to be roommates, and we played a lot of music together. And then at a certain point after we weren’t living together I was kind of like ‘Oh I want to start this thing’ and I got Jeremy involved and we just started working on it and it turned into this, which is pretty crazy.”

 Were you guys random roommates or did you know each other before?

Jeremy: “We just both played in bands around Boulder and there were no computers or anything like that. And then I had a room open in the house I was living in and Dom moved in and then we started kind of playing in random projects together around town. Like funk shows you know, at every bar in boulder like little bars, where there would be 15 people there and it would be our friends. We’d be telling our friends ‘Come! You have to come out!’”.

Dom: “We were really hustlin’, music hustlers.”

 And it just kind of evolved from there?

Jeremy: “Yeah Dom got a computer at one point while we were living together and started making beats just in the bedroom. And then he got better it was like ‘oh let’s jam over this’.  And then he was like ‘this is a thing, this is it, this is what we need to be doing. we’re going to make it a thing’”.

 From my perspective you guys blew up pretty fast, would you agree with that?

Dom: “We’ve been on a slow grind, just slowly getting a little bit better and a little bit bigger but that’s good you know I like that better than just having one hit blow up, we’ve built our fan base over the years for sure.”

And would you say you have a message as a group for that fan base?

Dom: “I think the brighter future thing is kind of our m.o., I think it always has been and we have finally put it all together with the last album.”

Jeremy: “Peace and Love”

Dom: “But for real though, we need more of that shit.”

Jeremy: “A lot a lot more.”

 So, have you always done electronic music or have you ever explored different genres?

Jeremy: “Yeah before electronic we played jazz and funk and rock and all of that.”

Dom: “We actually used to play weddings.”

Did you guys play weddings together?

Jeremy: “Yeah, no computer but like a full-on wedding band with a singer and horn section and everything.”

 How did you come up with the name “Big Gigantic”?

Dom: “It literally just popped in my head one day, and I was like ‘I’m going to save that for something’ and then when I eventually got everything going and we used it.”

Jeremy: “Yeah it’s kind of crazy, we worked very hard. And this is our tenth year.”

 What year did you put out your first song?

Dom: “Late 2009, ‘Fired up’ but it was like all instrumental hip hop electronic music.”

Photo: Chester Pink

Stream Big Gigantic’s album Brighter Future on Apple Music and Spotify. And don’t forget to check out their new single “Like That” on December 5th.

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