if you dont listen to classical music, start!
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iv just completed the prelude from my first collection of peices called “fairy suite” check it out on my M page:
http://myimn.com/profile/bemtevi
so yesterday i had my african drumming recital. it was a great experience and as anyone who was there will tell u it changed everybodies “life forever”… haha, well thats what every student said at least. on another more important note, the question of the day:
How do you overcome writers (or whatever it is that you do) block?
i have added 4 new CDs to my collection:
Livro by Caetano Veloso
The soundtrack to the Sound of Music
Sean Kingston
Collected by Massive Attack
The term Candomblé is a combination of two words from the Central African Kikongo language: Ka and ndonbé, together meaning “custom of the black people.” The drums play an essential and dominant role in Candomblé ceremonies. The master drummer plays the rum, which improvises intricate variations. The rumpi and lé play relatively unchanging patterns as they repeat one steady rhythm. The master drummer or alabê (Yoruba alá agbè) always has overall control of the ceremony, so it is important that drummers never go into a trance.”
-Gerard Taylor (Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace)
I highly recomend this book to anyone who finds african culture interesting.
heres some of the capoeira from brasil day:
here is some of the pagode (paw-gO-djee) from yesterday, the capoeria is coming up tomorrow i think.
today i hung out at brasil day. this cultural festival was held at the la brea tar pits from 12-6, sorry i hadnt informed you earlier, i have been kinda consumed with school, i have two tests on monday and a bunch of preformance peices coming up, yikes! anyways… brazil day was awesome! there was pagode, a style of street samba that developed in rio de janeiro, there was forró, a style of dance and music that derrived from baião, and capoeira, the famous brazilian martial art. i also picked up one of these:
a tamborim.
they are really fun to play. expect videos today or tomorrow of some of the cool preformances at brasil day.
Bem-te-vi
i miss atabaques
I had a performance tonight for my guitar ensemble class, ill be posting the video soon.
Jouba
This from a classical guitar concert i went to a while back.
Michael
