Brilliant track mad live well done got a hippy vibe to it great track check me out sometime.

I've been hearing staccatos,
tympani are not safe (for)

Sleeping, don't be afraid to try sleeping

I need a rhythmic andantino.
love, love - I just like a love, love

Sleeping, don't be afraid to try sleeping

I just love, I just love (sleeping)

I just wanna eat coos, coos
'cause my voice is quavering

Sleeping, don't be afraid to try sleeping

I feel fugal, so I'll be Bach 
with an arioso...

Lullaby For Insomniacs

Atorkor-Sewor Okudzeto

Happy Halloween!  On "Black Ark Vampires" Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic Sound System have crafted a throbbing sound-man tune propelled by subsonic bass, bubbling skanks, and pulsing beats that balance the murky and mystical vibes of Perry’s classic Jamaican dub reggae recordings with the flammable energy and bass vibrations of current electronic music, fine tuning a recipe that they have slow cooked throughout their last four years of U.S. tours spreading authentic dub to a new generation in places like Coachella, Dub Champions Festival, and Red Bull Music Academy. Lyrically the track features Perry’s most focused lyrics in a decade, a poignant oath of vengeance against the vampires that corrupted the ark of the covenant and forced him to burn down his famed Black Ark studio, told in comical rhymes that echo the cadence of a Dr. Seuss story coupled with the morbidity of Edgar Allan Poe, promising the details of where, when, and how he will kill these vampires, from Kingston to London to New York City and everywhere; vampires beware; he will kill them with his hair, with fire, with electric wire, and even with roast corn. Melodically the tune packs soaring vampire hooks, spiritual vocal choirs, groaning melodica bursts, and even a few lines from dancehall vocalist Jahdan Blakkamoore, produced and recorded by Emch at his Subatomic Sound laboratory in NYC. Scratch’s vocals were recorded in Brooklyn at the Hook Studio after an NYC performance with the production assistance of On-U Sound’s legendary Adrian Sherwood, producer of some of Perry’s finest post-Jamaica recordings. The session was filmed by a Dubspot video crew after a long drive through NYC during which Perry recounted the better part of his life story as a warm up for the session.

At the age of 78, Lee "Scratch" Perry has built a life based as much on his fame as a reggae and dub inventor who exhibited boundless creativity and innovation in music composition and production, as he has on his reputation as a madman with playful wit, a propensity for lighting things on fire, a natural mystical spirituality that he famously introduced to Bob Marley, and his defiant individuality and commitment to personal freedom. "Black Ark Vampires" brilliantly ties together these divergent characteristics to create classic Lee "Scratch" Perry material on all levels.

Perry loves to dance and loves dancehall. His nickname actually comes from the name of dance he invented called Chicken Scratch. During his tours with Subatomic Sound System, Scratch had a voracious appetite for hearing new sounds and was interested in the "Vampires & Informers" dubstep track Subatomic Sound System had produced for dancehall vocalist Elephant Man. Perry began performing on the riddim live which led to developing the lyrics for Black Ark Vampires and Subatomic developing a riddim for Perry that captured his vibes. Though Perry is known for seldom giving straight answers and many have wondered if he really burned down the Black Ark studio, Emch from Subatomic Sound System says that one night after performing a show in California, he and percussionist Larry McDonald, a Black Ark studio veteran, were talking backstage when Scratch told them the reasons for his own longevity: "Stress will kill you. That’s why I had to burn down the Black Ark." He said the popularity of the studio had attracted the vampires who came to suck him dry and corrupted the magic of Black Ark, but rather than let that slowly destroy him like a cancer, he chose to close the book on that chapter of his life and move on by torching the studio and making an exodus to the UK leaving the vampires with nothing but the ashes.

THE ARTISTS: Grammy winning reggae and dub inventor Lee "Scratch" Perry is a living legend, one of Jamaica’s most prolific producers and a true original with a spirit that has defined and influenced countless artists across genres and generation, decades of great Jamaican artists from Bob Marley to Max Romeo, punk rockers The Clash, The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, The Orb, The Beastie Boys, Paul McCartney, Kode9, and the list goes on. At 78 he continues to tour, record, and paint incessantly.

Spearhead by producer, DJ, and instrumentalist Emch, NYC’s Subatomic Sound System is leading a dub music renaissance, founders of the US & Europe Dub Champions Festival, 4 years acting as the live band for legend Lee "Scratch" Perry on tours including Coachella & Red Bull Music Academy; plus independently touring North America, Europe, and Asia, and for a decade producing flavors ranging from classic dub to dubstep.

THE SUBATOMIC SOUND LABEL: Subatomic Sound specializes in limited edition exclusive vinyl releases that push the envelope of dub, reggae, & dancehall in the context of electronic bass music through forward sounding productions and unlikely collaborations with icons such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, David Lynch, Anthony B, Elephant Man, Ari Up of The Slits, as well as new school torchbearers like Dubblestandart, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Dub Gabriel, and many more. Subatomic Sound actively produces events and founded the annual Dub Champions Festival running 4 years in the USA and Europe. Subatomic Sound Radio airs on Brooklyn Radio and for three years ran on KEXP’s Radio New York, 91.5FM broadcast which transmitted to a footprint of 11 million listeners.

Lee Scratch Perry & Subatomic Sound System "Black Ark Vampires" vinyl 45 mix

I'm mixing classic Afropop sounds with Lofi Afrobeats. I played palm wine fingerstyle guitar on one guitar part and then added two additional rhythmic lead guitar parts. I wanted to make a track that would bring the uplifting vibes of classic South African anti-apartheid tracks by artists such as Mahlatini and the Mahotella Queens and Mzwakhe Mbuli.

Palestine Freedom

Motel Paradis,
Quelque part,
20 Juillet 2013


Cher auditeur chéri, 

Nous sommes partis à la recherche du paradis et après maintes péripéties et de longues heures de route, nous l'avons enfin trouvé : le 'Motel Paradis', un hôtel certes un peu miteux mais qui a de bonnes bières fraîches dans son frigo, et une jolie vue.

Le samedi 20 juillet à 23h, nous allons donc tenter de diffuser notre émission en direct sur les ondes de Radio Libertaire 89.4FM pour vous offrir un coin de ce paradis dont on nous avait tant parlé, et qui n'était qu'à quelques kilomètres. 

Une émission avec Orfo, Automne Lajeat, Yas Yanne Abbad, à l'impro musicale et aux mots percussifs. Il y aura aussi des mots d'auditeurs, comme Florence, Demetra, Katia lu par Emile Feltesse, et notre Jefferson Beck d'amour dans la chambre 66. On passera entre deux textes des chansons, par exemple une balade du voiturier Felix Jousserand et une de Jeanne La Fonta . Il devrait y avoir aussi pas mal de surprises.

Voilà mon cher auditeur. Je crois que notre lettre s'achève. Je ne vous en dis pas plus et vous laisse découvrir ce soir.
En vous souhaitant de moelleux motels et de biens douillettes émissions de radios pendant les vacances sur Radio Libertaire 89.4FM

Bons baisers du paradis,
Aurore et François



YAS - Abbad Superstar

Just a mellow beat for a Saturday afternoon...

Elements Of Nature

#devotedtothepresent
#WakeCreateSleep

TAP
Christopher Hydinger's The Antenna Project provides instrumental live-scores (improvised context-specific audio compositions) for all variety of experiences including extended duration performance, yoga, meditation and other movement-based classes, events, performances and happenings, films, fashion shows, ceremonies and gatherings of all kinds. He employs amplified electric guitar, an effects pedal and various methods of interfacing to create full-registered music ranging from subdued waves of droning minimalism to exuberantly celebratory maximalism.

FB
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YT
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv…_t2GpjMnKwCOOaVRx

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CSH
Christopher's held the artist-in-residence position at Punk Rock Yoga, creative directed and performed in the award-winning art-theater group PB_TMOG, curated and produced the quarterly Dance and Music improvisation-based performance series HERE/NOW, performed in graphic novelist Dame Darcy's band Death By Doll and performed at venues such as Benaroya Hall, Neumos, The Crocodile, Chop Suey, On The Boards, Velocity Dance Center, the Henry Art Gallery, Northwest Film Forum and the Triple Door sharing the stage with such acts as Low, Woven Hand, David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), The Gossip, Sun City Girls, The Makers, Tara Jane O’Neil, Kinski, The Dead Science and Climax Golden Twins.

He currently owns/operates WCS Art and Design, a cross-disciplinary venture with experience in landscape design (including Greenstaging: working with real estate brokers and property owners to refresh and/or design custom gardens for listings), graphic design, brand/concept authoring, copywriting, product design, clothing/costume design, environment design and art-based event production.

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Live-score Sample 2

Calm. The absolute foundation for obtaining and sustaining a healthy perspective and making healthy decisions. While there are many worthwhile goals, there is evidence to strongly suggest that the central catalyst to any goal being met is an individual's personalized focus on that one state, Calm, while in the process of manifesting the goal's varied tactical solutions.

We all need consistent and reliable mechanisms for decompressing from the demands of our daily lives as well as generating the grounded composure necessary to achieve our goals while maintaining human decencies and always valuing evidence and compassion. The Calm Culture live-score concept is TAP's offering to be one of those consistent and reliable mechanisms.

(This live-score represents the second of the two 30ish-minute, one-take recording sessions. Live mix and production by Doug Haire for Sonarchy Radio. Initially broadcast in November 2017 on KEXP 90.3FM in Seattle, WA. Sonarchy Radio is a Jack Straw Production.)

#devotedtothepresent
#WakeCreateSleep

TAP
Christopher Hydinger's The Antenna Project provides instrumental live-scores (improvised context-specific audio compositions) for all variety of experiences including extended duration performance, yoga, meditation and other movement-based classes, events, performances and happenings, films, fashion shows, ceremonies and gatherings of all kinds. He employs amplified electric guitar, an effects pedal and various methods of interfacing to create full-registered music ranging from subdued waves of droning minimalism to exuberantly celebratory maximalism.

FB
www.facebook.com/theantennaproject/

YT
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv…_t2GpjMnKwCOOaVRx

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CSH
Christopher's held the artist-in-residence position at Punk Rock Yoga, creative directed and performed in the award-winning art-theater group PB_TMOG, curated and produced the quarterly Dance and Music improvisation-based performance series HERE/NOW, performed in graphic novelist Dame Darcy's band Death By Doll and performed at venues such as Benaroya Hall, Neumos, The Crocodile, Chop Suey, On The Boards, Velocity Dance Center, the Henry Art Gallery, Northwest Film Forum and the Triple Door sharing the stage with such acts as Low, Woven Hand, David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), The Gossip, Sun City Girls, The Makers, Tara Jane O’Neil, Kinski, The Dead Science and Climax Golden Twins.

He currently owns/operates WCS Art and Design, a cross-disciplinary venture with experience in landscape design (including Greenstaging: working with real estate brokers and property owners to refresh and/or design custom gardens for listings), graphic design, brand/concept authoring, copywriting, product design, clothing/costume design, environment design and art-based event production.

SITE
wcsartanddesign.com

YT
www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ3mbCCGY4-dmFIwBCMniUQ

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© 2020 WCS Art and Design

Calm Culture Sample 2

This is a licensed cover of the song "Beat and the Pulse" by Austra. 

Purchase this on Bandcamp: http://jameswhetzel.bandcamp.com/track/beat-and-the-pulse

And/or on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beat-and-the-pulse-single/id551881313

My series of covers continue.  This is track number 3. The original tune "Beat and the Pulse" was composed by Austra and is published by Domino Records.

This series started with a version of "People Are People" by Depeche Mode, and was followed by "Psychic City (Voodoo City)" by Rich Jensen/Yacht.  Sitar, sarod, accordion and bass are featured in this mix.   Yes I did apply my trademark wall of acoustic drums to make the beat.  And yes they are very beautiful drums.  I am the darbouka soloist as well.  One of my many secrets is that I am a shredding darbouka player.  I first learned in Morocco back in the day from Laarabi Aguinou and took lessons from Salah Dawson Miller.

Mastered by Emch at Subatomic Sound.

Beat and the Pulse

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" gets very funky and bhangrafied.  

Drums, beats, bass, sarod, percussion by James Whetzel.
Dhol by Shree Deep Ion. 

Beautifully mastered for 2012 by Emch at Subatomic Sound.

Album art by Hothead.  
Photo of James Whetzel by Mango Power Girl. http://mangopowergirl.com/

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God Rest Ye Funky Bhangra (Sarod & Beats)

Innovative sarod player, guitarist, singer, beat maker, percussionist. Pole vaulter of genres, marathoner of styles. Intensely dedicated producer.

DJ for the International Fountain at Seattle Center. Assistant Coordinator for Seattle Parks Busker program.  Initiated the "on-hold" music program of the city of Seattle.

Beat and the Pulse

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