Re: Question of the Week -- when do you NOT loop?

["Julio Moreno" <juliomoreno@bahianet.com.br>]

Matthias:  Toumane Diabate from Mali...they don't need loop machines
and play the best ''loop mantras'' in the world. The band usually plays as
trio with guitar,kora, ngoni, nguini and marimba. AMAZING MUSIC!!!
Julio
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: Question of the Week -- when do you NOT loop?


>
> >"When do you make a choice NOT to loop?"
>
> Oh, nice question ;-)
>
> I guess, most of us have parts without loop in their loop pieces, but 
>they
> rather feel like bridges mostly, so thats probably not what we talk about
> here...
>
> I allways had problems with rythms. My music speaks in sound and melody.
> I somehow need the loop to keep me steady and leared a lot from it. 
>Brasil
> tought me another big lesson. But still, without loop, I tend to
> constantely change themes and travel in variations, hardly repeating
myself.
> For a long time, I thought this was not "serious" music, but more and 
>more
> I find it about as interesting as mantric loops.
> Where is that need for repeated parts coming from? Isnt it mostly a help
to
> remember and teach the song? So in an improvisation, you dont need it?
> If you want a mantric effect, use a loop to get the strongest effect, if
> not, just keep going, tell the story! To do it well is not so easy, but I
> am getting better at it, in my candleaccousiticroom.
>
> Could anyone indicate recorded music of this notreapeatatall kind?
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
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