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Universal Language(ziti-tadashi) by ziti [Email]
Genre: Jazz Fusion

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Last Played: Aug 30, 2008 - 02:19:28 PM
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Uploaded: Jan 12, 2006 - 08:18:05 PM
Last Updated: Jan 12, 2006 - 08:24:24 PM
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peace prayer (1), trans-planet musical whoopie (1)
Description:
Well. The very first day I was on Macjams, I found the incredible music of Tadashi Togawa. His piece, "moonlight" had just been posted. I remember listening to it 2 or three times in a row...reading the writing that went with the song, and thinking..."this guy is the COOLEST!"...he then commented on one of my first posts in his poetic style, and we became "friends". We have eMailed back and forth and it is always delightful to hear from Tadashi...always makes my day.

He first sent me a blues song to play on, but Tadashi's concept of blues was not fertile ground for me...so we decided that I would creat the basic track and he would add drums and keyboards, and i would add my solos. We decided to do a blues.

Instead, that night, while I sat to lay down a mid tempo shuffle groove...this piece of music started to emerge. I used piano loops tru the bass generator. I used banks of keyboard splashes..i looped my own guitar, all things i generally NEVER do to create my music...Then I layed a track of wah wah guitar(which you hear come in and out throughout the piece). I then mixed places out where i thought tadashi would trade solos with me. Finally I took the drums away and sent the file to Tadashi. Who was expecting a blues tune.

Three days later i had a Garageband file with 6 or seven tracks of tadashi tagawa.....wow.

I've been messing with it for about three weeks...I have given some sneak peaks to folks and they say it's ok. At this point, I have lost all subjectivity in this matter.

I am sorry to write so much about this, but to me tthe story of a trans-planet musical collaboration taking place between two obviously delirious and like minded souls, to create a piece of music like this is amazing! and we all are part of this great underground movement! We are changing all the rules!!!!

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Hardware:
My usual gear...I don't know what master tadashi uses

Software:
gb(!) way to go apple!!!!!
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Quadrophenia &mdash 01/12/06 - 09:09:06 PM
Parts of this remind me of The Who, specifically "Rain" from
Quadrophenia. There is a lot of stuff going on here. The bed is very
cool. I guess this is what happens when you get two monsters in the
same room, or on the same planet together. (Tadashi, don't take that
literally!) This piece demands careful listening, many times. Each time I
listen I hear something new. Z, you have done an admirable job mixing
these monster tracks. More !

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Quadrophenia &mdash 01/13/06 - 06:00:11 AM
er, "Reign."

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Quadrophenia &mdash 01/15/06 - 07:31:28 PM
Thanks Tom...yes, mixing this was a great challenge...but it's easier that
trying to play Tadashi's concept of blues! This was really fun and an
expanding experience.

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Fran-kenstein meets Tadashi the Oriental Funkmeister &mdash 01/12/06 - 09:43:35 PM
Nice work Tadashi and Fran! I had wind of this some time ago, and
have been looking forward to it ever since. Now if there are 6 Tadashi
tracks there, then I bet there's at least the same from you Fran -
Frankenstein never had it so good! Certainly is busy in there, and I'll
need to listen much more before I can even begin to be able to take a
more critical view of it. I'm just so pleased that this colab has
happened - yet another proof of the way music unites us all.
Thanks Fran, thanks Tadashi!
Neil

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Fran-kenstein meets Tadashi the Oriental Funkmeister &mdash 01/15/06 - 07:45:40 PM
Thanks, Neil!! I really had fun on this...I tried to come up with a east-west
kinda theme, and leaving spots for tadshi. I had every intention of re-doing
most of the guitars after tadashi added his parts...but he had responded to
what I played so uniquely and with such frenzy, that i just mixed all my
original guitar. I wanted him to play with me on the end bit, but he declined,
saying he liked that part the way it was!

I haven't listened to it in a week or so, and believe me, i needed a rest! What
a fun project!


z

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Man &mdash 01/12/06 - 10:03:41 PM
I'm really digging this, you guys are amazing. That's funny, it reminds me too of Love Reign O'er Me by the Who, at the beginning and then again in the middle. And then, from the middle, it turns into an amazing whirlwind of sound... what a great journey from start to end. I need to give this many more listens.

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Man &mdash 01/16/06 - 02:52:07 PM
PV...playing with your drumming is so much more familiar to me. the real
drummers I play with play more like you do. Tadashi's drum tracks were
added after the guitar was finished, so in essence, he was playing along with
me. I don't know if i could do it the other way round. If TT (as i loveingly call
him) plays real drums, I sure would be interested in hearing him!!!

I would also pay money to watch him lay down a drum track. He just uses
GarageBand...just amazing.

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Some ems' goin on here... &mdash 01/12/06 - 11:03:31 PM
That was not a natural event... For the rest of time, I will hold tight to
this belief - No matter what anyone else tells me, this shall remain true
to me. It snatched pieces of my soul before I could grab ahold... My
heart tried to jump ship, but I can still walk...

Of course I liked it...

Dion

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Great stuff &mdash 01/13/06 - 12:04:57 AM
You are both truely outstanding musicians because of your ability to bring
music into the next dimension. Some musicians may have reached the 4th
dimension, but you two are somewhere between the 5th and the 6th.
(remember, it's exponential.)

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This is a Masterpiece &mdash 01/13/06 - 12:26:23 AM
Great stuff ziti. I'll throw in my two cents worth. I don't here the Who so much as I do early Journey, before Steve Perry when they weren't so much a Pop band or evan Santana on the Caravansari album. It kind of has a early fusion music vibe to it. Your moving the blues form ahead with this. It's a melding of differn't cultures. On some of your other songs I wasn't crazy about the panning, but you have obviously been honing your craft. I live this tune better on every subsequent listen.

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This is a Masterpiece &mdash 01/13/06 - 12:31:52 AM
Sorry It's late at night and my spelling is terrible. Now that I listen to it again it does remind me Of " Love Reign Over Me" by The Who especially the Keyboard parts, but your blazing to fast on that PRS ziti to remind me of Pete.

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This is a Masterpiece &mdash 01/17/06 - 07:08:49 PM
Thank You!!!

Panning is really bad on the live things I have posted. The sound guy thought
that would be a good idea....

I definitly was going for a multi-cultural thing...east and west...but with
Tadashi...you just go for interpalnetary...

such fun...

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The string of the transparency was connected &mdash 01/13/06 - 03:52:54 AM
Moment when i listened to your guitar for the first time, I felt
familiarity.
Between Japan and the United States, there was vast expanse of ocean.
However, the impression that you were on the side did me.
The tone of your guitar exceeded the Pacific Ocean.

You and I speak a different language.
However, the conversation in a certain same language was possible.
And,you and I exchanged a few words this time.
Pythagoras discovers, and general music scale common to the world
that developed afterwards.
We talked by an international common language.

"Universal language"

Thank you very much for happy time.
Thank you very much for time honored.
I sends salaam to your rich musical expression.
The conversation started.
Hereafter, let's enjoy talking more.

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The string of the transparency was connected &mdash 01/15/06 - 07:52:20 PM
YES!! YES!! Talking with you is FUN Tadashi!!!

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I told you so! &mdash 01/13/06 - 04:20:00 AM
Since I was lucky enough to hear almost all 4,683 previous mixes of this I
feel authorized, entitled and empowered to tell you that this is by far the
best of the bunch.

What is most impressive, past both of your incredible musicianship, is
how you are able to extract every subtle nuance and make each note
heard. True- it will take multilple listens to comprehend them all, but
then that is what makes this such an amazing piece of music.

Congratulations, Fran and Tasashi on a wonderful composition... and
thank you!

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I don't usually care for fusion... &mdash 01/13/06 - 06:26:33 AM
...but this is cool...

I like the way that the slow beats or pulse in some of the loops keep
the tone coherent and tied together, which then creates space for
Tadashi's signature high speed drumming... and for Fran's fast runs
toward the second half...

I'm listening over morning coffee here... I bet it will sound amazing,
and reveal further detail, over headphones...

I'm intrigued by Fran's use of looping here, which is real organic. None
of it sounds metronomic or cold to me.

I like this tune very much, gentlemen.

Ed

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Oh yeah.... &mdash 01/13/06 - 06:27:42 AM
And the graphic is vibrant, too....


Ed

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Great merger &mdash 01/13/06 - 10:30:09 AM
Big tagawa fan here%u2026he reminds me a lot of Tomita. Wrap that up with a guitar machine and you get something extraordinary as this. I really like the wah%u2026been trying to find my groove but can't get my guitar rig Kontrol to work as a plug-in in Logic. Thanks for fusing.

John

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Great merger &mdash 01/13/06 - 10:33:01 AM
%u2026 I don't know what this is though?

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YES!!!! &mdash 01/13/06 - 03:04:46 PM
Like this....Love the Guitar work!!!!! Good Job

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whoa! blew me out! &mdash 01/14/06 - 06:16:49 AM
whoa! this is so cool! totally blew me out!

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Contemporary and Classic &mdash 01/14/06 - 12:26:33 PM
Well done Z. I was curious how yours and Tadashi styles would blend and
they work well together. This has a nice fusion feel to as well as a classic
rock feel and a pinch of contemporary. What I like are all the different
tempos and if you told me that's what you were going to do I would have
said no way but you pulled it off. You have this foundation of Tadashi's
powerful and fast drums and then you weave the house around them
nicely done. Bravo.-JAC


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Wow! &mdash 01/14/06 - 01:24:51 PM
First listened to Galaxy Band Part V and now this - so suffice it to say that I'm totally soaring through outer space at this point. This is wild, wild stuff, manic to the point of self-destruction, but all deliciously and deliriously contained. That first musical Vesuvius that settles back into the percolating synths and guitar washes, very, very mind-melting. Overall, the levels of some of the most dramatic instruments sound a bit held back in the mix. I can imagine you mixing this Ziti, you must've really needed to take some breaks here and there and I commend you for how you've put it all together. I'd love to hear your guitar come forward more with perhaps even more extreme panning to give all of these fantastic elements on the sonic floor. You guys are both sick. Sick, sick, SICK!

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excellent &mdash 01/14/06 - 01:28:35 PM
as usually its hard to say that anything should change..one again
excellent kung fu

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Great mix &mdash 01/15/06 - 08:23:29 PM
What a great mix of wonderous instrumentation. Very satisfying!

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flow &mdash 01/16/06 - 09:38:34 AM
notes of conversation
fly into the sky
talk from ends of the earth
join and sing to me
crying guitar converses with
bold eastern rhythm


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flow--tadashi style &mdash 01/17/06 - 07:02:49 PM
pretty good, oop! Now practice up on your drumming!!

thanks for the nice comments

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Shazamm! &mdash 01/16/06 - 10:37:29 AM
Ziti, Tadashi San! Magnifiscent piece the ebb and flow. Two masters.

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SWEET! &mdash 01/16/06 - 04:09:17 PM
Tunulation! Nice jamming!

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Amazin' collabin' &mdash 01/17/06 - 01:40:47 PM
Two greats together...and look what you got?

This is a truly amazing combination/composition!



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monster wash of sound &mdash 01/18/06 - 09:23:14 AM
This is a truly interesting blend of two cultures, of two very different musicians -- yet you meet in the middle successfully with this jazz fusion track.

I must admit that I am not familiar with this genre, and am somewhat hesitant to make specific "critiques" of this piece. However, I *DO* need to share some of my general musical observations (as usual -- LOL!)

Your guitar playing is virtuosic as usual, and Tadashi's artistry is amazing.

This monster wash of sound kept its intensity throughout this piece, and was therefore too much for my ears. It just never let up. There are many interesting elements, but they didn't have room to "breathe". It's like every available space was filled with sound.

Now maybe this is just the style of the genre, and that in fact you were very faithful to it. But I would have liked to hear more variety in the texture -- thin it out a little in spots to give the ears a break.

That being said.....this track certainly showed off both your considerable talents!

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monster wash of sound &mdash 01/18/06 - 09:42:28 AM
I can't say as I disagree with you Cameron, after listening again. I think this is
why fusion is dying such a slow ugly death. Ya get going at this intensity
level, and ya just can't SHUT UP!...this style of music can really kill your
musicality in a hurry. That being said, I think the excitement of creating
music this way (my recording style is usually much more traditional), and the
thought that I was trying to make a bed for Tadashi to play over, increased
my excitement level. This music is a reflection of Tadashi and I trying to
please one another, and i could tell by his cryptic haiku emails, that he was
having fun too...in one email he advised me to watch my health and not stay
up too late!

He seems to be a remarkable human, as well as a master musician. creating
this piece with him was not a dream come true, rather fulfilment of a dream I
never even could dream of!!

Thanks for sitting thru it, and as always, your wonderfully thoughtful
comments!

best regards
z

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Fascinating. &mdash 01/18/06 - 10:09:02 PM
This is like a microscopic universe... millions of wiggly electro-
charged notes swarming like atoms in a pitri dish that is the vast
chasm of space.

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a tapestry of sound....... &mdash 01/19/06 - 04:33:01 PM
a rich tapestry.......kudos my friends!......

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Organized Chaos! &mdash 02/07/06 - 09:09:35 AM
This is so interesting to listen to. So much going on! Great guitar work and the drums are killer! New to the site today. Off to a good start!!

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10's &mdash 05/06/06 - 08:52:33 AM
all the way. Ipoded.

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reminds me &mdash 05/06/06 - 09:01:23 AM
of ozric tentacles

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Yes &mdash 10/24/07 - 03:43:46 PM

That's how life is , things , many things , and more things ,happen together all the time , this is very natural music to me .
Great connection of your 2 worlds , maybe not so differents from each other musicaly :-)
Big sound , and such an expressive playing !

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