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Tambor de Fundamento in Pogolotti

Posted on May 14, 2010 by admin

Hat tip to Black Starliners mp3 blog.

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The Living Treasures of Bali

Posted on June 14, 2009 by admin

The internet is amazing. For music lovers? Triple amazin’. Not only are there awesome resources for any genre one might favor, but, an absolutely astounding resource can sit ‘out there’ and then be discovered in a serendipitous way. And, amaze.

I forget where I saw the reference and link, maybe at skafunkrastapunk, but diving in to The Living Treasures of Bali at archive.org cost me many pleasurable hours.

Performances by eminent elder Balinese performing artists with Gamelan Semara Ratih
“Banyu Pinaruh dan Bulan Purnama” 26 December 2004 Ubud, Bali

You could watch the whole thing right here or on the archive site. I didn’t because one can also download MPEG1 files and then make DVDs, and, as I did, watch them on the big home theatre screen. Or, MP4′s could be downloaded and poured into the iPOD.

Grab a taste here. The music of Indonesia is many many musics. These performances by the Gamelan Semara Ratih are masterful and the visuals are engrossing.

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Mail Beat

Posted on February 10, 2009 by admin

Okay, I hear this faint ticking sound while lounging about the living room. I go investigate. It’s not in the living room but I hear it behind the front inside door and go into the front hall. Standing still I hear it near the mail shute. Going closer, I discover the ambient beat coyly hiding in the mail shute. I go and grab the Zoom H4 and set it inside the shute. Gotcha! Oh member of the old house orchestra!

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I’m slightly tempted to stick it in the sampler. In the last place we lived, one night the steam radiator started drumming the most amazing syncopated rhythm. It was kind of an 11/4 with 7/4 sliding around too. (Like I really know what it was. Not!) The greatest environmental sound I ever heard was at the old Lakewood Public Library, where a cold air return in a little reading area led to some kind of structural cavern. The sound was this rolling very low woosh-and-echo. I dragged Matt over to confirm my report, but the next day the sound had vanished.

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