Re: [Harp-L] Music

[Emile Damico <oatss_oatflakes@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.myspace.com/marcusanddamicoproject
If this is isn't different then I don't know what is.
Listen to Azure Sands.
The harmonica is improvised.
Gotta love that Eventide effect on the harmonica.
It's only three thousand bucks.

Emile

P.S.Lloyd's Cosmic Blues is a new take on the blues.

Patience is the keyword

--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Music
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 10:46 PM

> It's time for music to go somewhere else.  It's not that the players aren't good at what they do; it's that we've heard it all before.  We know where they are going before they get there.  Everything is so bloody safe!


I sent that comment a while back and got several examples of different music with different instruments. I have finally had time to listen to all of the cuts.

 Most of it was modal with virtuosic players jamming over the mode with sometimes odd plucked instruments.  All of it was in one groove through the piece; all of it was in song form, all of it was guitar driven, all of it was fast, loud and male.

Here were some of the things I found missing - change of groove, most grooves stayed the same through the song.  Complicated forms, most were jams on a song.  Big changes in dynamics, texture.  A move away from guitar based everything.  Modulations into new keys.  Use of diminished and half diminished harmonies or any odd harmony.   Good, strong melodic structure.  Development.  Extended forms.  Disturbance of the groove, form or harmony. Complete mood changes.  Anybody playing pianissimo. and on and on.  The tools available for Beethoven are now longer being used.

In other words, most everybody is blowing their brains out on fast stuff over the same groove throughout a song.  Is this music?  or is this mine is bigger than yours?

I still say, it's time for music to go somewhere else.  It's not that the players aren't good at what they do; it's that we've heard it all before.  We know where they are going before they get there.  Everything is so bloody safe!

Makes me want to go shopping at Walmart.

harmonically yours,

Robert Bonfiglio
http://www.robertbonfiglio.com

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