Debashish Bhattacharya - Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey

Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey is a musical journey through the centuries of guitar playing in India. Using three unique guitars that BBC award winner Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya designed himself, each beautiful raga explores influences ranging from Gypsy to Sufi with deep sensitivity and free-flowing movement between past and present, tradition and innovation. This new album follows on from 3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar, which won a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in 2007 and helped bring to the world's attention Debashish Bhattacharya's incredible artistry as a musician and slide guitar player and his talent for innovative composition. He is also known for his collaborations with various musicians, including Bob Brozman, Djeli Moussa Diawara and Takashi Hirayasu. Played on three slide-guitars designed by Debashish, Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide-Guitar Odyssey is an album of Indian raga music, interpreted in a way that is accessible both to the Indian and western listener, touching on the blues, jazz, flamenco and Hawaiian music. His home city, Calcutta (now Kolkata), has for centuries been a centre of artistic excellence and this has strongly influenced Debashish's development. This, together with his own inspirations drawn from performing and collaborating all over the world, plus elements of Sufism and the origins of the Romani of Hindustan, have resulted in a beautiful and dynamic album. Debashish grew up in a musical family, accompanying his parents, both singers, on tabla, guitar or tambura. In the late 1920s, the legendary Hawaiian musician, Tao Moe, visited Calcutta, bringing with him a steel guitar and starting a trend for the instrument. Somehow a steel guitar found its way into the Bhattacharya household and Debashish started to play it. As his musical career continued he developed his own style of slide guitar playing, adding resonating and drone strings. He studied with Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, who introduced the slide guitar into Indian classical music, and later with vocalist Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty who expanded his knowledge of Raga music. In 2003, aged 40, he was himself made a Pandit (master). Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide-Guitar Odyssey reveals Debashish's interest in striking a fine line between the contemporary and the ancient. 'Nivedan' (A Journey Beyond Time) is a thumri-based piece that is devotional – portraying dialogues between Lord Krishna and his devotee - but it has a contemporary feel. 'Sufi Bhakti' (Eternal Joy) blends elements from Sufi music and Bhatki, devotional music of India, using the Anandi with the harp, tabla and one-stringed ektara. The composition is within the forms of the classical raga Bhairavi but there are strong international flavours and rhythms. 'Gypsy Anandi' (Odyssey of Slide Guitar) mixes melodies from diverse cultures – an Indian melody with an Hawaiian flavour, with Afro-Andalusian rhythms but with its soul in raga – played with three different Anandis and 'Maya' (Illuslide) has a strong repetitive melody which again blends the raga with rhythms drawn from elsewhere. And not to try to expand the kingdom of words onto the kingdom of music, listen and see for yourselves:

http://debashish_bhattacharya.mondomix.com/en/video3065.htm

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The Rough Guide to Sufi Music

Sufism, a mystic order of Islam, is perhaps best known to the world through the whirling dervishes of the Turkish Mevlevi order. Though Sufi tradition varies slightly from order to order, what they each have in common is a love of music and poetry, which they use in worship to become closer to Allah.

The Rough Guide to Sufi Music is a compilation of Sufi artists from various countries including Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco, Iran, Syria and Senegal. There is wholly traditional music here as well as music with Western and African influences. What is most immediately noticeable is that there is only one female artist represented here, Abida Parween of Pakistan; Sufi artists are traditionally male.

The selected tracks provide an overview of the different facets of Sufi music. The track by the Sabri Brothers of Pakistan, "Az Hoosne' Malihe Khud," has an infectious rhythm that I found myself clapping along with. Abida Parween's "Tere Ishq Nachaaya" is a quick-tempoed piece that could almost be Arabian rock; her singing is also somewhat easier to make out than her male colleagues'. The music is notable for repeating rhythms and melodies; Sufi music is well-known for its haunting and hypnotic power. Included with the CD is a booklet that provides additional information on the music forms as well as each of the artists.

Eastern music, no matter the form, is often difficult for Western listeners to become accustomed to. It often requires more than one casual playing to distinguish the different forms, melodies and to find impassioned chanting in what might sound at first like arcane wailing. Patience is required, but that patience can be rewarded with an appreciation for the intense passion that goes into the music. This is music of love and worship and it is well worth taking the time to learn to appreciate it. - Laurie Thayer

01. Mevlânâ Kültür Ve Vakf Sanatatçilari - Ferahfeza Peshrev (Turkey)
02. The Sabri Brothers - Az Hoosné Malihe Khud (Pakistan)
03. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tûni - Alam (Egypt)
04. Sheikh Yasîn Al-Tuhâmi - Qâlbî Yuhaddithuni (Egypt)
05. Hassan Hakmoun - Saba Atu Rijal (Morocco)
06. Abida Parween - Tere Ishq Nachaaya (Pakistan)
07. Ostad Elahi - Shâh Khoshini (Iran)
08. Boubacar Diagne & Ensemble - Dèmbe (Senegal)
09. Sheikh Ahmad Barrayn - Al °asfûr (Egypt)
10. Hamza Shakkûr - Ghayrî °alâ s-sulwân qâdir -- Samâ'i Râst (Syria)
11. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Rahway Wasdi Jhök Faridan Di - (Pakistan)

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E-LAB VINYLISTICS 3 - DJ Sample effects

Another massive amount of stretchin' & bendin' of ol' Ruffstyle breaks, keeping all the dust and dirt! Ruff Hip Hop and Funk breaks with that distinguishing Vinylistics sound... over 1,000 measures of new Hip Hop and R&B beats and breaks filled to the brim with loops, and variations, plus the component drum samples that made the loops. Turn your sampler into a turntable by adding the Vinylistics touch to your next production, and take a read at... "The Final Chapter."

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Noodlebeat
Grease Beat
Naughty Loop
Ruff Loop
SP1200 Loop
Grumpy Drums
Bassy Loop
Fried Beat
Blow Beat
Stiff Beat
Old Dirty Loop
Sticky Beat
Philly Beat
Jazz Drums
CB2 Loop
MPC Drums
Shake Loop
Ring Loop
Heavy Drums
Fill Drums
Open Beat
Dru Beat
Hat Loop
Whistle Beat
Disco Drums
Soud Drums
Detroit Drums
Hustle Drums
Groove Beat
Brush Beat
Machine Loops
Clave Loops
NYC Beat
SP1200 Ruffstyle
Thinn HH Top Loops
Vavle Compressed
Skrumpy Brush
Kicks
Hats
Snares
Toms
Rides
Crashed
Rides
Percussion


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NOVATION V-STATION + BASS STATION VSTi

Here is an Award winning VST !! trance producer Allende's fav !

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The V-Station gets the same real 3 oscillator flexibility as the award winning K-Station, awesome liquid analog filters, 8-voice polyphony, rippin’ simultaneous FX and the kind of phatt sounds only a genuine Novation synth can offer. It’s got masses of sophistication, acres of program locations and the flexibility of integrating it with your favourite sequencer / disc-based recording set-up.

Getting the best from the new V-Station is easy. All the primary sound-shaping controls are there on the main screen, clear, concise and refreshingly simple. Recall a named factory preset, tweak it to get ‘your sound’ and instantly save it in any of the 400 program locations. Need more? Just click and you’ll find additional functions and controls on the other three screens.

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Following the predictably stunning reaction to the V-Station, Novation ‘goes back to its roots’ with a VST and Audio unit Plug-In which flawlessly re-creates the the warmth, character and ‘oomph’ of the enormously successful Bass Station Keyboard and Rack analogue instruments.

Bass Station re-invents the classic sound of analogue and provides you with all the prerequisite building blocks of the sound generation process.

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Holophonic - super realistic 3D sound effects !

The sound you will hear is so realistic it's impressive. Not like 5.1 surround sound, the sound you hear goes all around you then up and down. The concept behind producing this realistic sound is called Holophony. To sum it up, think Holography for sound.

Holophony (or holophonic sound) is an audio recording technique which operates on a similar principle to Holography, except it applies these principles to sound and audio recording. It is related to the technique of wave field synthesis whereby sound is sampled over an area, usually a sphere, now Dummy head KU100 with omnidirectional microphones enabling the recreation of the shape of the sound wavefront as well as its direction. It is derived from the Huygens' Principle, which conveys the idea that an acoustical field within a volume can be expressed as an integral. It has some similarities with higher order Ambisonics. The result has been reported to be realistic and life-like three dimensional sounding audio recordings which have been said to exceed the realism of stereo sound.

Samples:
1. Virtual Barber Shop (amazing!!)
2. Matches
3. 3D paper

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