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New Project Update
I’ve just posted an update to the Kickstarter page about where we’re at with mixing the new record. You can check it out here. In the meantime, here’s to rallies in the rain: April 15th, 2015 at Shaw University.
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The Core is Getting Soft.14: Bang a Slate
One of the digital tools I threw in the mix of my new record is SSD4, the drum sampler made by Slate Digital. It was the first time I used something other than an electronic drum machine to program drums. The closest I’d come to fake “real” drums was the time we sampled a drum…
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Dirty Harry Does Diversity.1: Magnum Tucked In Tweed
One of the weirder phenomena of early 21st century cinema has been the emergence of Clint Eastwood as would-be spokesman for various groups marginalized by the white male power structure his famed ’70’s character Dirty Harry once defended with a famously long phallic symbol. Million Dollar Baby (2004) concerned itself with issues of gender and…
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Monsanto in the Classroom?
I spent the weekend editing vocals after reading an article that bore close relation to the subject matter of one of the songs I was working on. The track is called Contamination in the Grass and it deals with Monsanto and other similar agribiz corporations such as Dow Chemical and Syngenta. The lyrics takes many…
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New Page with Sound Cloud link for Outtakes, Ephemera
Today I put up a new page on the menu of this site that links to a SoundCloud playlist where I’ll be posting a rotating cast of outtakes and demos and ephemera. Read the new page here – and happy new year to all!!!! All instrumental tracks are now done for the new record. There…
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Top 40 over 40.19: Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali Live in Concert
In this series of posts on musicians doing high quality work after 40, little has been said about their audience. Today’s post will start out with them first. Last October, I went to see the Pakistani group Rizwan-Muazzam perform at the Reynolds Industries theater at Duke University. I knew little about these performers from Pakistan, other…
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Top 40 over 40.18: Peter Hughes and Dipa Ma
I was once listening to an episode of Car Talk on NPR and heard a woman call in to Click and Clack with the following dilemma: she had a Honda that was running perfectly, and that had proven to be very reliable over the years. Nevertheless, she found the car boring. She found herself eyeing…
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