Re: Asian culture

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

thanx for the link Daryl!!
yeah a lot of westeners are convinced they invented the world;-)
wanna see where the flamenco golpe comes from?
check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_qThG8fUck&feature=PlayList&p=99BE8E076A70B651&index=0&playnext=1

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:

> From: Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>
> Subject: Re: Asian culture
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 9:37 AM
> thanks Andy...! I won't add anything else, but...yeah.
> 
> One of my favorite traditional pipa pieces, a millenia or
> two old:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZmAgFyVo48
> 
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
> www.chinapaintingmusic.com
> 
> > Before Western influence, and still surviving in some
> places Asian music incorporates innovation in a natural way.
> There's
> > no need to react against a tradition that isn't
> hidebound.
> > 
> > For most of the innovations of the West, I think
> it's possible to
> > find examples of Asian music that did it first, and
> did it better.
> > Ambient, Minimalism, pure sound, rhythmic
> complication, microtones,
> > drone, and just plain "that's not
> music".
> > 
> > ..and plenty of Asian music that Western theory just
> doesn't understand.