Listening to music is so much fun.
Below The Bassline - by Jamaican jazzmaster Ernest Ranglin
Kothbiro - by Kenyan lyre (nyatiti) player Ayub Ogada. Haunting.
Soltarlo - jazzy acapella scatting and layered vocal “percussion” from Colombian singer/songwriter Claudia Gómez
So, what am I working on this week? My first freelance music reviews! A local paper found this very blog and now wants me to review 5 albums, each in 50 words. Daunting for a rambler like me, but nonetheless a task I undertake with relish. Do you guys have any recommendations? What albums lately can you not help mentioning to everyone you meet?
“The basic concept behind it is that most “classic” dance music is so formulaic it should be easy for a computer to generate. Generating all patterns and sequences from a small set of rules the unit is able to deliver new and original tracks in realtime.” Obviously this is easy enough to do in software, but Mungo has actually made a hardware box.
He continued: “ROMS has no rights from the record companies whatsoever to licence these pieces of music. ROMS and AllofMP3.com are well aware that record companies have not granted authorisation for this service.”"