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Rainer wrote: * Rick Walker finally stops all this improvised livethingie stuff and does an album of composed music, involving lots of postprocessing, for which he uses Krispen's now unused computer. The lineup for the album features (among others) Jeff (Kaiser), Erdem, Per, Kevin Kissinger and Michael Manring. LOL, yeah, that tiresome improvised found sound livethingie stuff I do!!! Actually, in point of fact, my last CD, Purple Hand, which had zip sales, I'm a little embarrassed to say, was not only what I think (and what a couple of reviewers thought) was the best single record I've ever made in my life and was COMPLETELY composed with no found sound (of if I used any, it was so heavily processed that you didn't know it) and made entirely in a computer. I'm really, really proud of that CD and I'd love to sell it cheap to ANYONE at loopers delight. Also, suddenly, I'm just in love with string and brass instruments and have , on a daily basis, been playing and composing really minimalist songs on altered tuning Strumsticks, Dulcimer, Mandolin (trying to really teach myself tunings in 5th to prepare myself for next year's forays into bowed instruments), Saz, Oud, Nylon String guitar, 12 string Acoustic guitar, 4 string fretless bass, 12 string electric bass, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn and my latest love in life, a Euphonium. It's so ridiculously audacious to take on all of these instruments with such a remedial skill level, but I may be the happiest I've ever been in my life, creatively speaking and just in love with the concept of 'beginners' mind. I've been really inspired, lately, by very simple musics from Niger, Mali and Mauritania. My good friend, the late Ali Farka Toure, once entertained me in my living room for an hour and a half on a one string crude violin that he played and sang against. There was something so satisfying about that experiences (and I couldn't believe that I"m the only person who got to hear it before he passed last year). There is a fantastic concert DVD , called 'Concert in the Desert' that brought Taureg musicians from all over West Africa (along with some wonderful European musicians and the inimitable Robert Plant) that I've been watching. Some of those repetitive single line guitar figures (ala Toure, Baaba Maala, Mansour Seck, Issa Bagayogo) are so entrancing...........................loop music, if I ever heard it. Anyway, I don't know where it's all going except that I gave myself a few months off before I begin my long tour in Europe, the British Isles and Asia this coming year (another fulfillment of some of Rainer's wishes). It's the most time I've taken off in 25 years and it's letting me fall in love with all music again. I'll let you know if a CD comes from it. Happy New Year all and, Rainer, thanks for that cool list. Rick