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OT: What's on your iPod/CDplayer/Turntable



Some great ideas about what to listen to.
Thanks everyone.  I'm having a great evening checking out
everything people have recommended on Rhapsody.

I'm currently listening to the
Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors record.

It's really a very good record,  thanks so much for recommending it.
I think it was Ariel who did but I can't tell because the Daily Digest 
doesn't always
identify who's posting unless they sign their individual posts.

Ariel , if you like this stuff, you might really like the Brian Blade's 
Fellowship recordings!

Also,  Jim mentioned Michael Masley's beautiful music on Cymbalon:
I actually know Michael fairly well.    He's talked about hiring me to 
play on a
recording some day but we never put it together. 
He's really innovative and he lives entirely off of playing on the 
street with his
innovative mixture of hammering and bowing the Cymbalon.
He invented special beaters that have curved bows at the ends so he can 
either
get 'wine glass-esque'  bowed sounds or percussive sounds out of his 
Cymbalon
(a form of hammered dulcimer).

Jim you mentioned getting him to come to the festival but he, doesn't 
loop or
if he did, he would have played years ago.     I did get him a cushy 
wedding gig
earlier this year, however, so that felt good.   For such an innovative 
musician, he
lives very marginally,economically.   So glad you are into him.

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Speaking of that devil,  do you know the innovative bassist,  Mark 
Deutsch from the
Bay Area?  He's another guy you'd just love,  Jim and Daryl.
He plays an invention of his called a Bazantar which is a cross between 
an upright acoustic bass
and a sitar (with sympathetic strings).   Really cool.............really 
out of the box.

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Chris also mentioned Tinariwen,   Bajofondo and Buraka Som Sistema.
I love Tinariwen and the Buraka Som Sistema records
They are both incredibly funky in respectively , traditional and modern 
ways!

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I was wondering:   Is the Bajofondo record the group that's part of the
whole Congotronics movement?    If not,  that's one you might love:
totally traditional drum based kalimba music except that they are using
crudely kluged together amplifiers (out of car parts, I heard) that 
distort the
kalimbas terribly into a beautiful mixture.   If so, then I"m not 
hipping you to
anything <doh>