Good day.
Todays compilation of smells & sounds is called OPUS 269. “Opus” refers to the fact that the piece in question is an individual work of art, separate of all the other tunes out there.
“269” tells you the number of these individual works of art I’ve produced with kongano in mind.
Neat.
I’ll let you know when we hit 513.
Yes, we’re early because why not.
Dang it’s cold outside. And because I’m living in an apartment where the windows have been renovated in the 1930s, it’s pretty chilly indoors as well.
Woolen socks & poncho for the win.
Todays piece of art is called THE SPELL OF ICE. It’s appropriate because of the weather, and because I suppose we all can sometimes channel our positive side in when absolutely necessary.
“The following tune is a mix between the dream world and reality…”
“It is well known – yet surprisingly misunderstood – fact, that people are the same wherever…”
“You will know it’s time to turn the page when Bud Spencer rings his little bells like this…”
No, no and once again no! Just use a simple equation that explains it all:
TRICK NRO 16 = Ringo Starr producing childrens music in the Caribbean in 1984.
The people who know me personally, sure know that when it comes to music, I’m a bit of a purist. I like my salty snacks salty, and sweet candy sweet.
Ok, I’ve seen and loved some comical opera. And country music may have some western in it. And flute may also be a heavy metal instrument…
Well, it seems I’m starting to slip. LIKE A POPINJAY OF TODAY is a result of me slipping.
Slip away, me. It’s some great fun.
What we’ve got here is a familiar smell, you can’t quite put your finger on.
It’s like really dark (the colour) lime, or more like purplelish orange or not really.
It has traces of Weather Report, gone through the golden age of video games, all the way to this millenium.
CELENTHAL is elvish and means… No I just made it up. But since elvish is also made up, you may define the word yourself.
It’s pretty clear that in the battle of human vs. nature, nature always prevails. The only question is, how bad of a loser man turns out to be.
But how about the battle of human vs machine? Now let’s see:
– In chess things are pretty even (as far as I’m aware). But considering that some of humanitys best engineers are doing everything in their power to turn the tides for the machine, things ain’t looking too bright for us.
– In music. We got Bach, Charlie Parker and Weird Al Yankovic. They got a few AI-composers – some even available on your smart phone – designed by the best human programmers this planet has.
– In sports, well, we’ve all seen the videos of funny robots stumbling in stairs. But again, our most brilliant minds are working hard for the glory of the machine.
Bloody traitors.
My little war against the one and zeros of the world ended in a loose truce. It was a sheer coincidence that todays tune was supposed to be BATTLE OF KUSTAANKARTANO. But hey, con is my favourite incidence.
If I do remember correctly, BEYOND THE BITGATE was the last work I did in 2017. And if I really put my serious mask on and look up towards the ceiling, it was mostly a result of me playing around with a random synthesizer sound, without any particular master plan.
It might be a work of a very tired composer, but I still think it came out pretty nice. Big sound is big.
No, bigger than that. It’s big. And it’s got a theremin friend.
(As a sidenote, why is it always the dirty word that catches your attention, when you open up a dictionary.)
LoFi popity-hopity extravaganza of the day. Otherwise describing such a piece would be like telling a fellow human what a human looks like:
“It’s got a torso and you know, toes and all the good stuff.”
Now hey, this particular specimen has a silly name: STOP WHAT YOURE DOING AND TWIST BUT NOT YOUR ANKLE.
(At this point, I took a break to check some twist dancing videos.)
Smiley face.
Forget everyday life.
Forget smoothies, push-ups & dental floss. Forget too fitting clothes and social restrains. Forget drinking too little or too much water per day. Forget to check if your keys are in your pocket, ‘cos they are.
Forget what’s hot & new and forget that you must have it immediately. Forget to comment, subscribe and smash that like button.
Forget at least for a while something really important, which in the grand scheme of things isn’t such a big deal after all.
Forget arki and take a step to another world, where samurais adventure in the pages Kalevala. Via Dar es Salaam: KATALA KATANA.
1) Choose instruments. Change one of ’em. (34€)
2) Play an organic musical line of some minutes. (260 calories)
Note. Mute the track after recording & smoothing it out.
3) Repeat step 2 for each of the instruments. (Gain 2 tablespoons of sweat /track)
4) Unmute everything. Mix, master, tinker, tailor. (111 brain cells destroyed /every 3 seconds)
5) MANOIL SIDEBURN TAKEOVER. (It’s free)