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""Landscapes of Africa: Music for Orchestra" by Fred Onovwerosuoke" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-28 02:19:19

Landscapes of Africa: Music for Orchestra by Fred Onovwerosuoke (52:18). AGCD 2071 (2007) is a vibrant new CD of musical compositions largely salvaged from the rubble left by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The composer was born in Ghana to Nigerian parents and is Founder and Director of the. For me the African tone was set before I opened the disc by the well-traveled composer's back cover photo of the exotic lavender-tinted Temple des Pythons at Ouidah. Benin Republic. Two of the ten instrumental works were commissioned including Rhapsody on Nketia's Republic Suite (5:04) commissioned by Prof. Emeritus J. H. Kwabena Nketia of Ghana for last month's Ghana Jubilee Celebrations. The recording has received a very favorable review by James Manheim at It is excerpted here: Music written by Africans for Western symphonic ensembles is not common on recordings or Euro-American concert programs but several African countries have conservatories with music-making that would seem worthy of further investigation. Fred Onovwerosuoke was born Fred Okorefe Kwaku Onovwerosuoke in Ghana in 1960. His family was Nigerian and his education in African idioms encompassed the music of many different ethnic groups. At the University of Ife in Nigeria he conducted a choral group and he studied with Ghana's most famous musical scholar. Onovwerosuoke now lives in New Orleans where many of his manuscripts were nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina; admirers recopied them off the soaked pages. The orchestral works heard here are strongly recommended to anyone interested in fusions between the European and African musical languages for Onovwerosuoke's thinking is subtle and original. His music strikes the listener as characteristically West African but at first it's hard to tell why this should be -- the traditions out of which his music grew are all heavily dependent upon percussion instruments but he uses them only sparingly.

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""Landscapes of Africa: Music for Orchestra" by Fred Onovwerosuoke" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-28 02:18:57

Landscapes of Africa: Music for Orchestra by Fred Onovwerosuoke (52:18). AGCD 2071 (2007) is a vibrant new CD of musical compositions largely salvaged from the rubble left by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The composer was born in Ghana to Nigerian parents and is fail and Director of the. For me the African tone was set before I opened the disc by the well-traveled composer's back cover photo of the exotic lavender-tinted Temple des Pythons at Ouidah. Benin Republic. Two of the ten instrumental works were commissioned including Rhapsody on Nketia's Republic Suite (5:04) commissioned by Prof. Emeritus J. H. Kwabena Nketia of Ghana for last month's Ghana Jubilee Celebrations. The recording has received a very favorable review by James Manheim at It is excerpted here: Music written by Africans for Western symphonic ensembles is not common on recordings or Euro-American concert programs but several African countries have conservatories with music-making that would seem worthy of advance investigation. Fred Onovwerosuoke was born Fred Okorefe Kwaku Onovwerosuoke in Ghana in 1960. His family was Nigerian and his education in African idioms encompassed the music of many different ethnic groups. At the University of Ife in Nigeria he conducted a choral group and he studied with Ghana's most famous musical scholar. Onovwerosuoke now lives in New Orleans where many of his manuscripts were nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina; admirers recopied them off the soaked pages. The orchestral works heard here are strongly recommended to anyone interested in fusions between the European and African musical languages for Onovwerosuoke's thinking is subtle and original. His music strikes the listener as characteristically West African but at first it's hard to tell why this should be -- the traditions out of which his music grew are all heavily dependent upon percussion instruments but he uses them only sparingly.

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"Faces of the Borana" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:47:37

Today is the go away of a series of posts about my trip to Africa. After searching the world for a traditional isolated village of people that do not undergo electricity. TV movies or any media at all and have never heard of or seen a camera for my photography project. I found it! The village we will use for the Through Their Eyes Africa project is located outside of Tuka a very small town in the southern end of Ethiopia. It is in the heart of the Borana land home of the Borana Tribe. These populate live in the southern part of Ethiopia and the Northern move of Kenya. There are estimated to be about 1.5 millon Borana's. Our project will be focusing on helping the Borana's which are some of the most isolated and forgotten people on our planet. After finding this village and spending measure learning their grow I fell in like with these unique people. They live a very simple traditional life with little to no outside back up even from their own government. The evaluate of HIV and AIDS in these villages is about 20% with Malaria an change surface larger problem. Their biggest challenge is finding enough clean water to survive. They need back up in a big way and no one is helping them yet. I wish that my communicate will bring the attention to these beautiful and unreached people and will help to carry them the help they need. I will be going into the detail plans of how our project will back up or furnish Global Hope Network International (GHNI) in helping these populate. Along with shooting photos I was able to participate in the first ever medical clinics conducted in Borana villages. We were able to help over 600 populate but our goal to help did not forbid there. GHNI wanted to evaluate how to best help these people long term and had no intention of just coming in doing a clinic and leaving. GHNI had been planing this move and developing relationships with some of the leaders in the communities over the past year. There was a lot of ground bring home the bacon done prior to our getting there and the medical clinic was an introduction to the bigger picture of what GHNI wants to do to help the Borana tribe long call. The thing I was so impressed with was the philosophy that GHNI works by. They go to help unreached populate by providing a "hand up" not a "hand out". They experience the best way to help these populate is to help them help themselves and that will provide sustainable back up. Here are the first images of these beautiful people. The show starts with some populate I shot at some of the medical clinics we did in Isiolo and Merti Kenya then some shots of some AIDS orphans and their homes in Ethiopia then from another medical clinic in Mega Ethiopia then finally the village we will be doing the communicate at located outside of Tuka Ethiopia. I extracted the audio for the show from a video I shot of a traditional Borana move that is about their cattle. sight the women with their arms up like the horns of cattle. One is suppose to be a young cow and one an elder cow. They do not have any sophisticated musical instruments. They move on dried cow hides that are stitched together and that acts as a drum. They also use beads made of cattle and camel bones as percussion instruments. The rest is all vocal. I love the articulate that the women do when they get excited or desire something. It is a sound I ordain never drop and brings back many memories.

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"The Mandolin Sounds in the Roots of Bluegrass" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:11:10

Bluegrass music is traditionally played on acoustic instruments which may include the banjo guitar fiddle mandolin. Dobro and bass. For readers unfamiliar with this musical genre bluegrass music is the sound produced with particular acoustic stringed instruments like the Mandolin and the Debro. To understand bluegrass music is to realize and appreciate its musical roots. Bluegrass is an original American music formed from a be of varied influences including the early Old Time ballads fiddle tunes and string band music with its proven roots to the homeland musical heritage of the immigrants who pioneered America. Above all bluegrass music is acoustic although there are plenty of vocal and instrumental microphones on the modern bluegrass stage. Bluegrass tends to use both vocals and instruments as an ensemble. It is distinctively acoustic rarely using electric instruments. In bluegrass as in jazz each instrument takes a turn playing the melody and improvising around it while the others revert to backing the lead. This is in differentiate to old-time music in which all instruments compete the melody together or one equip carries the lead throughout while the others provide accompaniment. The various types of music brought with the populate who began migrating to America in the early 1600s are considered to be the roots of bluegrass music. This would consider the ballads from the Scots-Irish immigrants of Appalachia and England as well as the African-American gospel music and blues which sprang up from rural America. This “Mountain music” held on and grew into today’s bluegrass despite the pressures from more socially acceptable forms of popular music. The rural people of the south and other parts of the country clung tenaciously to the music which has grown into an integral contribution to American culture. Though its inception was influenced by Scottish and Irish folk music bluegrass music is a distinctly American form. And its Scottish and Celtic connections mixed with its vibrant and undeniable American roots be a beloved genre of music. Bluegrass music is more of a synthesis of American southern arrange bind music blues. English. Irish and Scottish traditions wrapped up in a sacred country music form. It is important to say that bluegrass is not and never was simply folk music under a strict definition; however the topical and narrative themes of many bluegrass songs are highly reminiscent of “folk music”. In fact many songs that are widely considered to be bluegrass are older works legitimately classified as folk or old-time performed in a bluegrass call. While bluegrass is not folk music in the strictest comprehend the interplay between bluegrass music and other folk forms has been looked at by many music authorities and scholars. And it has since received separate genre recognition as a form of country music. By in large its status as a genre is a credit to the talented artists musicians and bands of the twentieth century as proof of their devotion and optimism toward a music style intrinsic to their heritage and prodigy. Performing bluegrass bands undergo included instruments as diverse as the Dobro resonator guitar accordion harmonica. Jew’s harp piano drums electric guitar and electric versions of all other common bluegrass instruments though these are considered to be more progressive and are a departure from the traditional bluegrass call. Beyond instrumentation the singing which is central to bluegrass music genre has change state known as “the high lonesome appear,” which gives the song along with its typically sad lyrics a haunting and mournful timbre. This distinguishing characteristic of bluegrass is vocal harmony featuring two three or four parts often featuring a dissonant modal sound in the highest voice. If you comprehend toe tapping music played mainly on a avoid mandolin five string banjo guitar or bass guitar followed by an emotionally compelling vocal solo then it’s probably bluegrass music. The most famous contributor of the bluegrass genre was the legendary Bill Monroe. His main equip of cover was the mandolin for which he has developed a distinctive and very influential style but he has always played with a guitar back-up. His earliest recordings were with his brother Charlie and The Monroe Brothers like other country groups all of whom sang tight harmonies with Bill’s mandolin taking the instrumental solos and Charlie’s guitar keeping the rhythm and bass tones going behind him. Today Bill Monroe is referred to as the “founding father” of bluegrass music. The bluegrass style was named after his band the Blue Grass Boys which was formed in 1939. His singing and music was directly influenced by the mountain perform singing and melodic harmonies of his youth in western Kentucky. On October 28. 1939 Bill Monroe introduced the world to his call of music by playing “Muleskinner Blues” during the Grand Old Opry’s Saturday night show. They became popular performers on the Grand Ole Opry with many appearances throughout the mid to late twentieth century. By some arguments as desire as the Blue Grass Boys were the only bind playing this music it was just their unique call. Their music could not be considered a musical genre until other bands began performing the same style. Debate rages among bluegrass musicians fans and scholars over what instrumentation constitutes a bluegrass band. Monroe had a unique sound but wanted to fine tune the sound into more of an amalgam of old-time music blues ragtime and jazz accompanied by the acoustic instrumentals. Early in the 1940s and not satisfied with their current appear. Monroe began searching for other musicians to give his band a fuller sound. He formed a new group which featured a young Earl Scruggs on 5-string banjo and the unusually complex three-finger picking combined with Monroe’s driving mandolin. Lester Flatt’s guitar and Chubby Wise’s fiddle gave the group a power and excitement not heard before in country music. As one musician put it…”Ultimately the elements of bluegrass came together in Monroe’s band as sacred and secular color and white urban and rural combined to form an altogether new drive of American music”. A significant portion of the circumscribe we hear in Bluegrass music today is original Bill Monroe material. In addition to what might be considered “mainstream” bluegrass which has gradually changed over the last 60 years there have been several study subgenres which undergo existed almost since the music’s beginning. Although nearly all bluegrass artists regularly combine gospel music into their repertoire. “Bluegrass Gospel” has emerged as a study subgenre. Distinctive elements of this call of bluegrass music include lyrics focused on Christian faith and theology and soulful three or four move harmony singing mixed with an occasionally subdued instrumental aviate. In recent years several modern country music artists have recorded bluegrass music albums. More recently artists such as Ricky Skaggs groups such as the Lonesome River bind and Alison Krauss have continued to spearhead a kind of country crossover that puts more emphasis on blues over that of pure bluegrass. Bluegrass music is now being played in venues all over the world. For bluegrass music fans there are many summer bluegrass music festivals held annually throughout the United States including Colorado’s.

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"African Mask" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 20:32:02

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"The Banjo's African Roots: The Thumb String & Playing Styles" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 16:46:55

byThe unique feature that gives the 5-string banjo its distinctive appearance and sound is the top 5th string an unstopped change state drone arrange which is much shorter than the other four strings. In banjo parlance this 5th string is referred to as the chanterelle or "thumb string."In the heyday of blackface minstrelsy a myth sprang up that credited pioneering minstrel banjoist/fiddler Joe Sweeney with the invention of the 5-string banjo's "ride arrange" and the 5-string version of the banjo itself. By all accounts. (1813-1860)-- known professionally under the re-create label "Joe Sweeney"-- was a study seminal performer in the burgeoning pop genre of minstrelsy. He certainly was one of the first European American stage musicians to choose and master the African American banjo. As banjoist/historian notes in his most recent highly-acclaimed schedule (McFarland & Company. Inc. North Carolina. 2007): Judge Robert Bolling Pore/Poore (1841-1910) first voiced the contention in print that Sweeney was the inventor of the "5th" string. Pore then the Appomattox County [Virginia] attorney grew up a mile from the Sweeney family and knew Joe as a child (a cousin to Joe Sweeney's dwell Joel Flood. Pore also served with the Sweeneys in the conflict between the north and the south). adjudicate cerebrate gave this account of how Joe Sweeney began at the age of twelve to hit the books music "on the violin and four-string gourd":"At a very early age he developed a great love for music and became when comfort a boy of 12 years old quite a proficient on the banjo and violin. As he grew and became proficient in the use of tools he undertook to make his own instruments and by the time he was 21 years of age and remove from his father's hold back he added the 5th arrange or thumb string to the banjo." (R. B. Pore to G. W. Inge. July 25. 1890)By the mid-1840s the 5-string banjo with a be made from a circular wooden hoop frame (sometimes referred to as a "cheese box") had change state the preferred form of the equip. Prior to that the typical banjo had a gourd body-- either round oval or teardrop shaped-- with three to four strings four strings being the most common configuration. Our knowledge of the earliest forms of the banjo in the Caribbean and the Americas comes primarily from the handful of published accounts and graphic illustrations left to us by contemporary European and European American observers. Many of these references can be open in Dena Epstein's pioneering work (1977) as come up as her ground-breaking bind (Ethnomusicology. Volume 19. Number 3. September 1975) all of which she culled from her exhaustive research of period documentation. One of the earliest and most detailed depictions of a gourd banjo in North America is the anonymous folk painting. The Old Plantation dated to the late 18th century. It's currently in the collection of one of the museums at in Virginia. open in Columbia. South Carolina the painting circa 1790s depicts African American slaves on a plantation dancing to the music of a banjo and a percussive found-object instrument made from an overturned kitchen vessel and played with two thin sticks. Incredibly enough two actual early banjos have survived to this very day in European museum collections: the Stedman Creole Bania (Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde. [National Museum of Ethnology]. Leiden. Holland) and the Schoeler Banza (Musee de la Musique. Paris. France). The Creole Bania-- considered to be the oldest example of an early gourd banjo-- was collected in the northeastern South American country Suriname (also formerly known as Dutch Guiana) by head John Gabriel Stedman (1744-1797) sometime between February 2. 1773 when Stedman arrived in the colony and April 1st. 1777 when he set sail to go to Holland. Captain Stedman served with Colonel Louis Henry Fourgeoud's military expeditionary compel made up of foreign "volunteers," (read "mercenaries") sent from Holland to crush "revolted Negroes" during the Dutch colony's (1768-1777). French abolitionist writer (1804-1893) acquired the Banza in Haiti during his 1840-41 pass through the Caribbean. In the cases of both of these extant early banjos and the banjo depicted in The Old Plantation we can clearly see that these three instruments were all 4-stringed with the top string (the one closest to the player's chest) being a short "thumb string."advance bear witness of the early 4-string banjo's configuration with a short top "thumb string" can be open in Captain Stedman's schedule. Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from 1772 to 1777 (1796). In the schedule's section on the musical instruments and dances of the enslaved Africans and Creoles (blacks born in Guiana) he observed. Stedman wrote: Tracing the New World banjo's roots all the way back across the Atlantic to West Africa we can also see the "thumb string" in various different ethnic traditions of plucked lutes. In the immense diversity of the myriad different kinds of instruments that alter up the West African lute family the ones which are the most strikely similar to the earliest forms of the New World banjo are the gourd-bodied folk lutes of Casamance (southern Senegal). Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. These include: the Jola (ekonting). Manjak bunchundo. Bujogo (also Bijago) . Pepel busunde and Balanta kisinta and. These six lutes from Upper Guinea Coast region of West Africa--also known as "The Rice Coast" during the Transatlantic Slave Trade-- are all 3-string with two long strings and a short "thumb string." The Jola and Bujogo (also Bijago) are played in a down-picking style that's remarkably reminiscent of the 19th century stroke style of playing the banjo and its folk offspring clawhammer and frailing. The plucked lutes which are exclusive to the griot castes also have a short drone arrange. Examples of include: the Bamana (Bambara) the Wolof the FulBe hoddu and the Soninke gambare. However on many of the different ethnic versions-- especially those that undergo a 5-string configuration-- the short drone is the bottom string the one closest to the player's lap. The number of strings on the various different ethnic forms of griot lute be from three to eight. There is also a single-string version of the griot lute known by a variety of names: molo (Senegal). (Burkina Faso) and juru kelenni (Mali. This instrument is no longer played but was recently "rediscovered" by American banjoist Jayme kill). In the 5-string configuration of the griot lute the top string closest to the player's chest is actually a second drone string. It's a bit longer than the very short drone arrange on the bottom-- the equip's 1st string-- but much shorter than the three desire strings in the middle. On the griot lute the melody is typically played only on two strings. These are the only two long strings which are stopped (i e depressed at different points along the given string's length against the instrument's neck by the player's fingers to make the various different notes). The rest of the strings on griot lutes serve as unstopped change state drones. The Gnawa is a plucked lute of North Africa which in many ways parallels the early banjo of the New World. Like the banjo the guinbri can trace its roots approve to the plucked lute family of West Africa. The are a North African Muslim brotherhood as well as an ethnic group made up of descendants of slaves and soldiers from West Africa. Their lute the guinbri (also sintir.

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"The History Of Drums - A Journey Of Sound" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 18:10:37

Music and musical instruments are an extremely important part of human history. The use of rhythm and song has desire been used to convey meaning and feeling and accompany rituals. Music has been part of human life for as desire as anyone can trace. Early civilizations of humans used music as a way to communicate and convey feelings. Out of all of the musical instruments that we see in our society today and use on a regular basis there is one equip that stands out in musical history the drum. The history of drums is interesting and unique. When you examine this instrument historically you ordain sight that drums have had a displace in almost all cultures around the globe. Variations of drums and go sets occurred in many different cultures the standard variety of a drum consisted simply of a hollowed out log or gourd with a conjoin of skin stretched bemock. Different sizes of gourds and logs created different sounds and beats. The African InfluenceIn most African cultures drums were very important in the use of rituals and religious ceremonies. The populate of different African tribes relied on the use of drums to express themselves and when the slave trade began the drums made the journey across the ocean as well. African drums and drummers provided a unique appear that heavily influenced Western Rock and Roll music. Those same rhythms and beats comfort provide a strong affect in today’s sounds. The Early Drum SetWhen it was discovered that one player could compete two or more drums at the same time populate started placing groups of drums together for one musician to play. These groups were comprised of an assimilation of drums of different cultures and from all around the globe. Cymbals and tom tom drums were brought in from China and the size was adjusted to accept for go of play when played with drumsticks. In the early 1930’s musicians slowly discovered with the proper go placement and a lot of practice one musician could handle a set of drums and an entire bind of drum players was not required anymore. Thus a basic kit evolved and took displace. In An Early KitThe early drum kits were simple in their create by mental act they typically consisted only of:1) A bass and pay ride 2) A capture drum 3) Tom Toms 4) A hi hat cymbal 5) One or two sets of hanging cymbalsThe Evolution Of The go SetIn the 1930’s the go set was heavily influenced by the sounds of the measure and the early forms of Rock and Roll music. The sounds had a strong basic beat backing them. In the 1950’s as Rock and Roll music began to develop the sounds became more complex and likewise the drum sets became more evolved with new additions added to them. Rockers began expanding the drum kits adding more cymbals and tom toms drums to them. In addition as measure went on electronic drums were added to the go kits as well. All of these additions allowed the musicians to grow their sounds and alter their music. Types Of go KitsIn the past as drums evolved and go kits developed new companies were formed and products were fine-tuned and made exceed. The Ludwig Drum affiliate is known as one of the most influential and historical go companies of our measure. The Ludwig drum company was started by a young man who enjoyed playing the drums. He could not sight a bass pedal that would direct up to his intense drumming style. He shopped around everywhere and could not find an allot ride so he fashioned one out of wood. The ride was superior to anything else on the merchandise. His brother entangle that an even stronger ride could be created out of a metal product so they teamed up to create an change surface exceed bass ride. Thus the Ludwig Drum Company was born. Ringo Starr the famous drummer for The Beatles used a Ludwig drum set and was known for preferring the Ludwig drums. He is said to still own the original Ludwig go set that he played with the Beatles. There have been many other types of go kits and affiliate names that have played an important and influential role in the history of drums. Yamaha. Pearl. Tama and Gretsch are all famous brand names whose drums and go kits undergo helped create the drum set as we experience it today. The Future For DrumsWhat does the future hold for go sets? No one can be sure. However with the creation of more and more technology we can be sure that the sounds ordain create by mental act even more. A combination of new sounds and traditional ordain always be open. And the limit for drum set creation will simply be the imagination of the musicians.© 2005 http://www drum-sets-now comKevin cook is successful compose and publisher of many informative websites including http://www drum-sets-now com. His websites offer tips and advice on a wide array of topics including drum kits. African drums percussion instruments and more. We also advise:

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