Name: Charles in the Desert by Electro JazzPower
Duration: 9 min 51 s
Description: An atmospheric Soundtrack, tribute to Charles de Foucauld

hi there! can i use this sound in my video?

An excellent track and production....seriously enjoyable to hear.

Mate this is outstanding, great work. On my playlist you go!!!

An atmospheric Soundtrack, tribute to Charles de Foucauld

Charles in the Desert

This one is definitely one of my top 5 songs. This bass sound I discovered while working on song Tribal beginning. Last/third bass sound in that song is the same sound as here (with one shift  to the left on the grid), so basically here it goes correctly (kick, bass, kick, bass, etc), while in Tribal beginning they play at the same time, which created this warped effect of twisting sound that I am so proud of. I found this sound by playing around with buttons, just turning them left/right, trying out what sound will appear. Which is something I should technically do with every sound, but it's pretty menial and time-consuming activity, so I usually go with sounds that are already there. Most of them are beautiful as they are (in garageband). 
This "falling star" sound at the beginning, synths playing mysterious vibes, and sounds used for both main melodies - all of those sounds are exactly as I found them in library (no alteration), and they sound pretty amazing to me, so.
When it comes to rhythms, there's basically only two of them. First just kick and snare (classic techno rhythm), and then I add  hi-hat, and that's the second one. I switch between them throughout the song. 
Beginning/intro is only kick line for about 10 seconds, and then kick and hi-hat for another 10. Then the song officially jump into swing and it stays there till the end, with only a couple of occasional and mild dips. 
The atmosphere seems highly cosmic and digital with mystic synths, and weirdly cute/tingling sound for two main melodies that complement each other very nicely. The whole thing is a heavy trip, very experimental, raw, and underground sounding. Just the way I like it. Enjoy.

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From Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1968 - 1971, out August 4th on Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/playing-for-the-man-at-the-door

In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas and the surrounding areas. In segregated neighborhoods, community members gathered in saloons, dancehalls, and each other’s homes to hear their neighbors sing their stories of sorrow, heartbreak, jubilation, and triumph. Robert “Mack” McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee of the blues, stepped into this world and became one of its most devout advocates and documentarians. By photographing Black and Latino Texans and their neighborhoods, as well as recording and interviewing musicians—many of whom never stepped foot into a proper recording studio—McCormick endeared and eventually embedded himself into these communities. By the time he died in 2015, McCormick had amassed a collection of 590 reels of sound recordings and 165 boxes of manuscripts, original interviews and research notes, thousands of photographs and negatives, playbills, and posters. Because McCormick never published or released most of these materials, his collection became a thing of legend and intense speculation among scholars, blues aficionados, and musicians alike.

Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 is the first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotal moment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own right—including Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb—but also, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans and scholars. Newly mastered recordings and accompanying photographs bring to life many of these forgotten figures: offering insight into their lives and illuminating in new, enlightening ways their joys and anguish, deep social connections, distinctive voices, and cultural networks. The collection spans gospels, ragtime, country blues dirges, the unclassifiable music of George “Bongo Joe” Coleman, and more, showing that no community, no matter how tight knit, is monolithic.

Accompanying the music is a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormick and his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman on McCormick’s life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalized communities throughout “Greater Texas” to which McCormick devoted his life’s work. This release is a partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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Now HERE :  DIS-MOI Papa ! Afro Jazz  
***ALAIN MICHOUD (Electro JazzPower and JAZZTRIP)  Acoustic & electric saxes, flute, voice -- musician, composer, arranger, producer, romancier,  suching ORIGINALITY at the FOREFRONT //  in 70s was a pioneer of Afrofunk @ West Africa // 
Wish you a nice listening !
https://www.alainmichoud.com
BIO:
plays  Jazz  Rock  Soul  Reggae  Pop  Worldfusion ElectroFusion
​many Tours  open air  clubs  stadium  as sideman  and soloist  : 
@ Saville Orchestra    Victor Scott   Bertice Redding   Rocky Roberts (RIP)
 and  more as hundred bands  
​* Formed "Samantha and The Top Men" in 1971
* Grounded with 5 Ghanaians  the "Cohana Afro Funk" in 1975
BOOKS:
2015 La révolte du Maudit  @  Distribution dans  toute la francophonie, fnac.com, amazon, Decitre, etc
2017 Sweïleme  @ toute la francophonie, fnac.com, amazon.fr, Hachette, etc
2018 audio book : Sweïleme, with an electro jazz ambiance !
All releases on all platforms //  Worldwide Distribution

Charles in the Desert

Electro JazzPower

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