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May 17th 08
What You Won’t Do For Love
So I have heard this song (see video below) multiple times on the radio and its really one of my all time smooth jazz favorites. The song: “What You Won’t Do For Love” was written back in 1978 and its still – hands down – one of the most groovy pieces of music I have ever heard and for the following reasons:
1. The song fits the singer. Its obviously his song and so many beautiful subtle nuances in his performance (despite pseudo mullet, bad dress code and doubtful dance moves). Lyrics are basic, but really encapsulate the essence.
2. The baseline groove with drums/perc, rhodes, guitar and bass is extremely tempered, yet alive and sophisticated in detail. Its wonderful to see a backing group allowing space for everybody to burn through in a subtle powerful way. A very hard thing to do and something that takes years of practice and musical humbleness.
3. The underlying supporting strings generates a nice slight, soft, sadness to the piece (more audible in original piece).
4. The trumpet riff is gorgeous, soft, sexy and instantly catchy.
May 11th 08
They Were Right
Feel free to listen to one of my latest personal inventions. Essentially an experiment which is a mixture of Wagner and Grieg inspired pieces. The music is divided into two main sections. The first part is a soft, swelling type of epic intro using staccato for strings and woodwinds, while also having layers sustained swells for strings and brass. The second part is a harder, syncopated type of orchestration, which combines several layers and counterpoints using staccato for strings, brass and woodwinds.
The music was composed with an upcoming sample library from ProjectSam, which is one of my favourite developers of orchestral samples.
May 4th 08
Beat Box Champs
Human Beat Box is one those things that keeps on getting back in the spotlight. It started in early 80s and kinda went underground in the 90s – yet to embraced again in the new century or so (I am sure some Beat Box fanatics will bash me for this assumption). But it is truly amazing to see what the new generation of beat boxers are capable of and I certainly see a great talent for voice actors amongst these crowds. Here is a random example from recent German Championships in Beat Boxing (these guys didn’t win btw):
