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Late check-in... > So how about this, what music are you all listening to these days? Which > artists are inspiring you for looping or otherwise? If I go to the record > store on Saturday, what should I get? Lately I've been listening to the following: 3 Trios - Nguyen Le Le originally caught my attention with his CD _Tales Of Vietnam_; mostly Vietnamese folk songs reharmonized into jazz setting. Turns out he's pretty darn good at guitar-playing in a more pure instrumental setting as well. Great stuff from the three acoustic bassists and percussionists on this CD as well. Kiki's Delivery Service Original Soundtrack Soundtrack to the Japanese animated film about a young witch striking out on her own. Nothing particularly revolutionary here; just music I currently enjoy chilling out with - invokes thoughts of the French/German/Swiss countryside. BTW, this was one of several Studio Ghibli movies that routinely clobbered the competition from Disney in Japan. As a result, Disney has agreed to distribute Studio Ghibli films in the U.S. sometime next year. Vision Of Escaflowne Original Sountrack Vol. 1 Soundtrack to the Japanese animated TV series. Most of the music seems to be strongly influeced by orchestral music from the Romantic and Impressionist eras of Western classical tradition (think Star Wars or Raiders Of the Lost Ark). The composer, Yoko Kanno, has also shown a wide variety of influences from ethnic musics to various pop forms to electronic music in her work but aside from the three "pop" tunes (one done entirely with acoustic instruments such as mandolin) this CD is mostly devoted to that big, epic kind of sound. Sol - Greg Howard Features Stick wizard Greg Howard exploring mostly Latin-flavored instrumentals in solo and group settings. Pretty good stuff from one of the premiere players of the instrument. Orblivion - The Orb You all know who these guys are. It seems darker than other albums of theirs I've heard. > Here's another one we haven't delved into for a long time: What is it >about > looping that makes it interesting, fun, musical? Why do we want to do >it? > Why does it show up in so many types of music? Is it something in human > nature, learned from culture, what? A popular theory is that humans naturally respond to rhythm. Sorry I can't say more - I still have a lot to learn myself. Paolo Valladolid --------------------------------------------------------------- |Moderator of Digital Guitar Digest, an Internet mailing list |\ |for Music Technology and Stringed Instruments | \ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | \ finger pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu for more info \ | \ http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/DigitalGuitar/home.html \| -----------------------------------------------------------------