I Recorded This Eight Years Ago - Uma Beleza Incomum
Posted Nov 5, 2011, 7:06 AM UTC
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how great to recover that music (this and your other post too). Very modern sounding pieces. Did you focus on this type of music in school? I like it!
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There were a few things I found on there I thought were lost to the ages.
The kind of music I write/wrote is in a category didn't from the music I play and listen to, with an exception here and there. This particular piece has John Fahey's Great San Bernardino Birthday Party as an influence. I didn't listen to that album a whole lot, but it was hugely influential (and with early Pink Floyd) in how I improvise. It wired my brain in a certain way.
I also had a sort of grab bag of influences. At this time, I was learning and playing and listening to quite a bit of South American music, was starting capoeira angola, played in a Brazilian folk group, started learning to play conga and Cuban music. Thinking in terms of rhythmic cells with music became ingrained, experimenting with polyrhythms, time signatures, things like that.
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I was able to recover data from an old, corrupted harddrive this passed Wednesday and rediscovered a few of my old recordings. I recorded this in 2003 with a cheap webcam. This is audio ripped from the webcam video.
It's a simple, but very moody piece with some interesting progressions.
EDIT: Sheet Music