Nice piece - sounds like some of the metal guys that were around in the 80's like Tony McAlpine etc. Did you get a drummer to do the drums? they are really crisp and tight.
Another cracking track. Erstwhile french president Jaques Chirac was once quoted as saying " When we build a road, do we consult the frogs"? In this case, it seems we do! I love the drum outro as the frogs hold conclave.
Thanks jfw! I'm always uncertain about trying to fuse field recordings with music, but the Frog Totem here really needed to be grounded in the physical. I'm in agreement re: the drum outro, and there's something rather satisfying about letting the voices from nature have the last "words". Cheers.
Great track, I think you sound a lot like Victor Bailey in his Weather Report days ( I've noted this before in a review of one of your other tracks ). Nice one.
Oboes are indeed fascinating and the people who play them more fascinating still. Who would deliberately select an instrument that looks like a huge elephants trunk with a chrome doodad stuck on the side of it? It's good to see that someone out there is experimenting with such sounds - good stuff.
You typically only have a single oboe in an orchestra, 'cause you can *always* hear them when they play. So, naturally, I used two.
Now I really want to learn to play one. There's something about playing "an elephant's trunk with a chrome doodad" that just seems like something I'd do.
Nice and funky this one, I like the smooth trasition when it shifts into dub - good stuff. Looking at your body of work you seem quite prolific - Keep pumping them out!
I like this a lot. The chord progression reminds me of 1980's jazz funk. I think this would benefit from either a vocal, sax or flute line and maybe a middle eight just to take it somewhere else briefly - good stuff.
Thanks for checking this track out! I did use one toy on this track - that was some drums sampled from a hing hon EK-900 keyboard kind of a famous circuit bending target. I like it because of it's driven analog sort of sound. Thanks for the review!
A truly gorgeous piece of work. Lovely jaco-esque harmonics and ambient backdrops remeniscent of Steve Hillage's work on "Green", a rare treat and definately one for the favorites list - well done.
Great african feel to this one. The meter and those low end frquencies do indeed convey a kind of weighty loping movement and there is definately a hippo snort in there - great stuff.
And it's the one track that's got no African drums on it! Funny how we can invoke location sonically with the right/rite frequencies and rhythmic patterns. I'm glad you can hear the hippo snort, too (which is how I came to title it), as I thought maybe I was the only one. Glad you dig it!
Nice thumping grove to this with lots of interesting prcussive elements. I like the vocal and the change in melodic direction around the 3:10 mark - cheers jfw.
Thanks jfw :) She does have a great voice, perfect for that neo-soul sound. It's a catchy hook, too! Can't get it outa your head lol. And that's all her, lyrics/melody. I did the vocal arrangement, but the singing talent is all her! Thanks again!
This is definately one for the inner-space voyager or psychonaut. I can feel the Entheogen beginning to take effect. Ayahuasca, Delysid, Psilocybin - the choice is yours...
On a SERIOUS note - this track just gets better with listening - great remix.
JFW knows the lingo! Yeah, I guess it's time to explicate the "frog" totem invoked in the "Hippo" piece. A few years ago there was an entheogenic conference up in Whistler, BC and psilocybin was brought up. One of the organizers called on the Hiada and Kwakiutl elders at the conference and asked why the native Pacific Northwesterners didn't use the mushroom as a tool. The response: "Yeah, we've always known about the mushroom. It's just that it's the domain of Frog, and everybody knows that Frog the Trickster is a pathological liar. You can't trust anything from the realm of Frog." Two personal totems are at work here - the Terror invoked by Hippo and the uncertainty emphasized by Frog. Glad you dig it! Hope my little explanation makes it even more enjoyable!
thanks I was a punk dj in the late 70's early 80's this was the punks dance music and they loved it and I still do great fun music, thanks for your time and review.
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