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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!!!!
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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Tom Atwood
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 !