Thelonius Monk Notes. “All Reet”!

“They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along + spoil it.”

omdat het funky weer is

Check die nieuw opgedoken tape van Delia Derbyshire dan. Haar tijd jaren vooruit! En dat allemaal met de hand in tapes geknipplakt! Helaas duurt het fragmentje maar een minuut. (uit de rc-linkdump. Thx Toxeth!)

eu neemt een wet aan die regelt dat je na 3 beschuldigingen door brein offline gaat

In my previous pots, I linked a youtube containing Neil Steiphenson’s electronic overdubs over the famous Burundi drumtrack from may 1967. I mentioned Joni Mitchels variant. It was dubbed over the B-side of Neil’s 1971 single. Joni used guitar, voice and minimoog, and called it “The Jungle Line”. Jungle avant la lettre… High quality stereo youtube dans les more. Continue reading ‘Burundi revisited’

This track is one of my all time favorites since I first heard it in 1986. It was nearly weekly turned in the Bakkerij, a pub in .nl, feared for it’s hasjisj but famous for it’s music.

The basis for this track is a recording of the court drummers of Burundi. The structure you hear is circle of drummers, while the drummers are called one after the other to perform a dance and drum solo on the huge ngoma drum in the middle of the group. It’s remarkably similar to Japanese Kodo drumming.

The drumtrack was also used by Joni Mitchell, Bow wow wow, and Manu Chao, to name but a few. Neil Steiphenson played guitar and piano on top of it in 1971, and did an electronic remake in 1981, which you can hear here. I know every sound, every piano note, every drum and syndrum hit in this recording. Continue reading ‘Burundi Black’