(Now i see why woebot never gets comments on his website, so we'll have to rehearse this discussion over here)
i almost posted this some time back when i read this sycophancy
http://www.utne.com/Arts/MP3-Music-Scavengers-World-Music-Experts.aspx
bollocks, but interesting bollix nonetheless...
was thinking about this in relation to "drag" (in my oppinion a very good genre name) and "witch house" (the same genre, but not so good name...)
go here if you have no idea what im talking about
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7806-ghosts-in-the-machine/
and how it seems that bad...
recently saw this book:
Domesticating the World
African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
Jeremy Prestholdt
looks like stuff i have not encountered at all before. if it holds water might have to move some stuff around in my head to accommodate these accounts... anyone read...
what little i know about revisionist history and the fictional divide between "east" and "west":
during the first half of Greek empire everything came from Persia: food, music, technology, philosphy, mathematics, astronomy, religion, medicine, fashion, etc, etc, etc, etc. and it was not until...
i was listening to new pj harvey and devendra banhart a lot lately..specially devendra..but also some other stuff, and i put some of these songs together in a zip file if you're interested; http://www.sendspace.com/file/4km6wm
i'd be much interested in what you've listened to lately, and if...
Yay! Let's have an Indo Jazz thread.
I'm doing a sleeve dump of some of the things I've picked up recently soon.
It's an amazingly fecund quarter actually. Think about the things it has inspired:
Minimalism:
La Monte Young. La Monte is simply an aestheticised stripped-back Alice...
ethnomusicology
great stuff!
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/pre/archive.html
first issue of 10 includes articles such as:
Standardization and Innovation in Mariachi Music Performance in Los Angeles
The Vocal Music Composer in a Nigerian Traditional Society and his Compositional Techniques...
a good way to know if one is "in the moment", according to Zen practices, is that when meditating, and someone comes up from behind and goes "BOOYAKA!" ---- if you are startled, you are not here of this time, but asleep or adrift in some other time; and if you are not startled at all, you are...
Hey guys
I'm currently aquiring my equipment for field recording shi-ite, was wondering if anyone had any tips/suggestions concerning which particular equipment i should look for.
I'm going to purchase a SONY TCD-D100 DAT walkman this afternoon from ebay, and now have to purchase a microphone...
Sorry if this has come up in one of the other threads and I missed it, but has anyone heard Murs' verses on the topic of white people into hip-hop on the track 'And this is for'? The track's on his album with 9th Wonder, '3:16'.
Pretty good I reckon, fairly equivocal in that he's acknowledging...
This is something i have been thinking about for awhile. I would really love to get some basic studio equipment together and travel through the jungles of south america/africa/asia recording indigenous people's music.
Has anyone been part of a simliar adventure or know anyone who has?
Also...
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