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This is a piece by a jam pal where I help out with drums and gongs and stuff, and later it segues into a new age satire. The idea behind it came from a funny incident my old jam pal had. A former elderly housemate of his said he needed a ladder, and then went for a shower. On the way to the shops Tim sees that someone has dumped some junk outside for collection, and there's a ladder. So he takes the ladder and stands it in the stairwell near the bathroom. His housemate asked him where the ladder came from and Tim grinned and said, "the universe provides".

Given that the track is almost 11 mins long, I figure that philosophy forum people may be the only ones who are patient enough to listen all the way through in this age of fast dopamine hits. If you do last the distance, I hope it's enjoyable.

https://soundcloud.com/in-the-house-5/n ... tim-o-grea

I just gave it a like on Soundcloud.

Really pleasant pallet and mixing. Like he soft whoops in the background. Very mallet heavy but in a really beautiful way, not harsh at all. I get Maze and Metheny vibes, also KC Sheltering Sky with the synth.

Gotta admit, if you're doing all of the percussion and drums in real time you're sounding like Danny Carey.

Papus79 wrote: ↑October 11th, 2023, 8:13 pm I just gave it a like on Soundcloud.

Really pleasant pallet and mixing. Like he soft whoops in the background. Very mallet heavy but in a really beautiful way, not harsh at all. I get Maze and Metheny vibes, also KC Sheltering Sky with the synth.

Gotta admit, if you're doing all of the percussion and drums in real time you're sounding like Danny Carey.

Glad you enjoyed it, Papus. It's maybe my favourite of Tim's compositions. We are both fans of Metheny and Crimson, so who knows how various influences come out?

I used a reverbed tom as a timpani. It had a nice, round sound. The whoops are me pretending to be Gong's Miquette Giraudy.

Danny Carey is a brilliant, creative world class drummer. I was a local pub n' club drummer who likes brilliant, creative, world class drummers. So, yes, there are plenty of dubs and corrections with the drums to get things ship-shape.

This is probably my favourite Pat Metheny piece:

I was debating whether I've ever shared this album in a way that encouraged people to jump on it (I may have shared a few tunes off of it further up the thread but never discussed it). It's an album by Grooverider (w/ production from Optical) titled 'Mysteries of Funk'.

Best way to describe what's here - it's jazzstep from 1998 where the aesthetics feel like Dr. Who meets Amen Ra, Afrofuturism in space but in a really haunted and mystic way, oh yeah and for the tunes that go techier it's Cylons and Battlestar Galactica (though moodier). Really psychedelic but in a dissociative kind of way.

The first track, Cybernetic Jazz, sort of gives a tour of some of the DNA of the album - it's not a round-Robin through all of the other tunes but it tells you what you're in for. The album progressively gets darker until it gets to the third to last track, 560°, where it feels like they're evoking complex alien wildlife on some exoplanet where the surface temperature is 560° C (very warped, drippy, and unstable). The last track, Starbase 23, inspired some of the aesthetics I liked using in some of my own tunes, a bit like the calmer part of Event Horizon before SHTF. The second track on the album, Rainbows of Colour, has Roya Arab from Archive - probably the most beautiful exploratory track of the album on it's own terms.

There are also a lot of other really strong tunes like 'Where's Jack The Ripper' (full-on what we used to call 'dark rolling techstep' back at the time) and 'Rivers of Congo' which did a good job of rolling up techstep with jazz and it slots with the title well.

This is the sort of thing that really gets me going in music though - stuff that sends you out into deep field.

^^ Messed one thing up - Starbase 23 is second to last, the last is a Rainbows of Colour reprise (Heaven's Breath).

Your background was entertaining me before clicking the links. I would describe the intro as Sun Ra meets Star Trek. There's always some kind of energy distortion, right?

'It is some kind of energy distortion, Captain.'

'Any other information about it, Mr Spock?'

'Captain, it is like nothing I have seen before.'

The spacey acid jazz is pretty cool too. That's some gnarly bass. It reminds me of a heavier Cinematic Orchestra at times. Imagination is a groovy track.

If you like Afro-influenced electronica, I have one of them too. As a teen I remember being keen on Osibisa, which was the only thing I remember from music class. Well, that and the paper planes that some kids would throw into the soundproof ceiling.


https://timogrea.bandcamp.com/track/afrobyte

Boring old me. I'm currently enjoying a new (to me) recording of Oscar Peterson live in concert in Zurich, in 1971. It's a trio recording, and I really rather like it.

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Except that the version I'm enjoying is a 24/96 hi-res recording, audio-only, not a video ().

Tunesian prog rock:

Nasty tribal business.

Haven't heard this for a while...