..lovely lovely work maxx..it was worth the wait from 2007 til now..cheers!

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From my new album, "Dawning of The Light Ages II: Moment of The First Ray" available on http://tinyurl.com/DawningStore 

Featured Guest: Simon Lau on Bass, from Labuan,  Malaysia

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Everything Changes  Max Vasquez ft Simon Lau, bass

Sangrando  (1980)Gonzaguinha

Recorded in 2009 in Los Angeles
Catina DeLuna - Piano and Vocals

Bilhete (Ivan Lins)

Demo. Flávia Dantas (voz), Bernardo Dantas (violão), Ajurinã Zwarg (bateria) e Whatson Cardozo (clarinete)

O barquinho (Menescal / Boscoli)

How Kongor &amp; I Met:
In 1995 I was hired to record a strange new voice never heard before in this land, so they told me. The session was inside the top dome of the Pasadena City Hall! So I haul my DA-88 digital recording machine up as my partner got the mikes, mixers etc. up these tiny winding long and treacherous stairs. I say treacherous because the steps were covered in pigeon droppings.
One slip and my $5,000 tape machine would go down into the abyss maybe to connect with a State Representative's head and create an international incident. But all went well, luckily, and we set up the gear, placing mikes in every corner of, well, not corners per se - it was a dome.
The moment I heard this man, this, what i instantly knew was a holy and sacred spirit, i knew I was in for as deep as it got. The red pill was in full effect.
Once my levels were set and all was perfect, my head phones caught all the reflections and I went into space out of my body for an instant brief moment! I used no effects at all to capture him- none were needed I could not believe my ears- This small man of Asian appearance was singing 3 notes at once! A drone, not unlike the Buddhist monks. A middle tone, and these beautiful wispy birdlike whistling tones oscillating harmonically. All simultaneously. We all looked at each other around the room as if we just discovered an ancient treasure with Indiana Jones in a secret lair!
I later found out that Kongor-Ool Ondar was a Tuvan Throat Singer, a high priest from Anatola Tuva, or Tuva, for short. Tuva is a region in Russia which is famously underground for people who live a simple austere life revolving around the Alesh River, one of the biggest rivers near the Steppes. They regard their horses as status like we hold our cars- the best horses were like BMWs.
Professor Ralph Layton -who hired me through a friend who had overbooked his studio and needed a man on the spot (there are no accidents)- teaches at California Institute of Technology, or, Cal Tech, which I often frequented for lectures, concerts, and making recordings in some of their rooms and general loitering. Prof. Layton told us after the session, over lunch, that he was Richard Feynman's dearest, best friend til Richard passed away. Most people in the know, respected Dr. Feynman for his groundbreaking physics work on the Los Alamos Project. He's one of my inspirations as a brilliant contributor to the advancement of human knowledge.
Richard had a dream he could never achieve during the Cold War- to visit these wondrous people he learned about through a stamp! Yes, a stamp which led him to other stamps and more info on the Tuvans, which was little to none. Just as the Iron Curtain was lifted and Richard could safely travel, Richard fell deathly ill and asked Ralph to promise him he would carry out his dream, his mission to go to tuva. Ralph of course agreed. Having spent time with him I can say I've rarely met a kinder, more good humored brilliant physicist. I've met a few...
Ralph undertook the journey as Dr. Feynman had charted, and came across a Shangrila haven that instantly appealed to him. The people were loving, friendly and generous with hospitality. After a while he asked Kongor to return to the U.S. on an ambassadorial tour, and had met and performed with many talented musicians/artists such as blind bluesman Paul Pena all across this great and creative nation of ours. I got him on the last leg of his tour and we became instant friends and made a fine recording he released later.
He was so appreciative of my efforts on his behalf that he said, through his translator and Raplh that as a gift he wanted me to have any part of his solo unaccompanied throat solos for whatever I choose to use it. I picked a phrase that he instantly beamed such a pure and magical smile and told me that is one of his alltime favorites- about the river that sustains his people.
Long story longer, I got my friends Chris Mancinetti on sitar and some tom-toms programming; and Paul Marshal Reeder to lay down some great soprano sax work on my creation. Paul, a well respected astrologer in his own right, taught me basic yoga and how to meditate. He recently passed and I miss him dearly. How fortunate we are to have his beautiful performance on this recording!
This piece definitely had it's own rules for us because, after we finished, Chris's Sitar broke quite by accident and was the only recording made with that particular sitar he JUST got! We all cried. And sadly, the masters have burned up in my '98 fire that took most of my life's work. But that's a tale for another time...
When I finished it, I played it for Ralph, Kongor and his wife. They were just floored! Having no knowldege of Electronic Music, He jumped on board fast! Now you can hear him on many dance and hip hop recordings as well as movie scores but I was the first bloke who pioneered with him into uncharted waters, and that is a blessed memory I will keep in me for as long as I live..
But just to make sure I'm not over-romanticizing the moment from replaying it in my head for the last sixteen years, I found the Professor online, and we had a long chat so I could fact check and reminisce with him. Ralph's words- "print it all, Max. It's a beautiful story to a beautiful song!"
This one made it on my "Butterfly Garden" album, which began in 1993 and was completed in 2006!


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Max Vasquez - Kongor-Ool Ondar ft. Tuvan Throat Singer Ondar, Chris Mancinetti & Paul Marshal Reeder

Love & Light
by Max Vasquez
From the new album “Dawning of the Light Ages II: Moment of the First Ray”
on Maxx Vaxx Music available at http://tinyurl.com/DawningStore

This composition is an original in the Downtempo/ Shoegaze/ Acid Jazz Ambient hybrid fused with modern Electronic Music styles. The inspiration for “Love & Light” came from Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Miles Davis and Hugh Masakela and Electronic Music groups like Banco De Gaia and Enigma.

All sounds including trumpet and piano solo by Max Vasquez. The methods used to make this song include plugin virtual synthesizers, some commercial, some custom made. Absolutely no presets were used in the making. All sounds are individually reprogrammed or made from scratch, even the trumpet and piano were “tweaked”. This tune was begun in 2007, put aside for a bit, and completed in 2011. Written, arranged, mixed mastered and performed by Max Vasquez in its entirety.

As the song kept growing, I started hearing more Zawinul in it and added the piano solo towards the end of the sessions. The trumpet parts were also added near completion, and EQ’d to simulate a flugelhorn sound. I like to think, or at least hope that Miles is smiling wherever he may be, as I carry the torch into expanding his vision of where Jazz sub-genres are going. All the while, expanding the Electronic Dance Music’s influence on Jazz and vice versa.

The rest of the songs on “Dawning of the Light Ages II: Moment of the First Ray”, http://tinyurl.com/DawningStore, are ecclectic and mind expanding journeys into imagination through sound. I hope readers will click on the play button below and enjoy “Love & Light”, from my first solo album in almost six years! I wish you peace and joy…

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Love & Light

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Vegpher "minutus" PFCD101 2020.11.11 Release http://www.progressiveform.com

01. Secret feat. Piana
02. A Mind Resort feat. HACO
03. Waiting
04. I am feat. Moskitoo
05. Classical Music
06. Frozen Maze feat. Moskitoo
07. VHF feat. Jessica
08. Velvet Voyager feat. Moskitoo
09. Night Owl
10. Jiff

◆【minutus】紹介文

FilFla、FourColor、minamoなどでも活動するサウンドアーティスト/コンポーザー・杉本佳一によるハイブリッドなビートミュージックプロジェクト《Vegpher》、今年7月にはDAOKOの4thアルバム『anima』に収録の「VOICE」をVegpher名義で作/編曲、そして11月11日に満を持してVegpher待望の3rdアルバム『Minutus』をリリース！

『Minutus』は"Minute"のラテン語、小さな時間の単位という意味の解釈から「その瞬間を音で捉える」と名付けられた本作で最も印象的なアプローチは、様々な肉声をその瞬間瞬間で表現しながら楽曲としての精度を最大限に高めている様であろう。
前作『PLUS』まではインストかつテクノよりのエレクトロニックミュージックをベースにしていたが、本作においてはトラックリストを見ても分かるように4名の女性ボーカリストを6曲で起用、残り4曲のインストゥルメンタル曲においてもカットアップするなどヴォイスを絶妙なアクセントとして多様に配置しているところが素晴らしい。

アルバムのオープニングを飾る「Secret」はPianaの物憂げな声を見事にプロデュースしたVegpherの手腕が光る。
30年近くに渡り活動をするHACOを起用した「A Mind Resort」はまさに心のリゾート感に溢れている。
M3「Waiting」においてはYMO的な香りも漂わせた奥深いテイストが心地良い。
FilFlaなどでも活動を共にするMoskitooをフィーチャーしたM4「I am」M6「Frozen Maze」らではらしいクールさが一層際立つ。
そしてユニットNgatariとしても活動するJessicaを起用し本作におけるハイライトの１つとも言える「VHF」はその美しい歌声と呼応するマイナー調の展開が深く心に刻まれる。

リズニングを大切にしつつも随所で垣間見えるプロフェッショナルのプロダクション。誰の心にも色濃く残るこの2020年の最後を彩る最高な1枚と言える内容に仕上がっている。


◆【minutus】クレジット

All Tracks Produced & Composed by Keiichi Sugimoto

M1: Lyric, Co-Composed and Vocal by Piana
M2: Lyric, Co-Composed and Vocal by HACO
M4, M6: Lyric, Co-Composed and Vocal by Moskitoo
M7: Voice Materials by Jessica
M8: Voice Materials by Moskitoo

Mastered by KASHIWA Daisuke at Studio FLAT

Photography by Mai Komura
Design by Takaramahaya

www.vegpher.com


【プロフィール】 Vegpher

FilFla、FourColorなどでも活動するサウンドアーティスト／コンポーザー杉本 佳一によるハイブリッドなビートミュージックプロジェクト《Vegpher》。リズムのインパクトと快楽的な低音のシークエンスに主眼を置いた空間的でバウンシーなダンスミュージックを志向する。
杉本の作品はそれぞれのサウンドプロジェクトにおいて、ニューヨークの12kやapestaartje、ドイツのTOM LAB、日本のHEADZなど国内外の音楽レーベルから多数リリースされており、1999年のFourColorとしてのアルバムリリース以降、ドイツのtomlab、ニューヨークの12k、日本のHEADZなど国内外のレーベルから28枚のアルバム・EP作品をリリース、関連作品は80タイトル以上に及ぶ。作品は英『THE WIRE』誌ベスト・エレクトロニカ・アルバムに選出されるなど海外でも高い評価を得ており、これまでにヨーロッパ各国をはじめアジア、オーストラリア、北米・カナダでライブパフォーマンスを行うなどグローバルな活動を続けている。
また、広告音楽の作曲家として、CM、舞台、映画、エキシビジョンなどの楽曲制作や劇伴を手がけ、音楽で参加した作品がカンヌ映画祭「若い視点賞」、フランス・エクスアンプロヴァンス映画祭「オリジナル映画音楽部門賞」、Design for Asia Award 2010 Gold Awardなどの受賞歴を持つ。映画音楽の受賞をきっかけに2007年フランス映画音楽作曲家協会(U.C.M.F)会員へ登録される。
2019年はFilFlaのアルバム『micro carnival』をHEADZからリリース。2020年、5月に12Kよりminamo & moskitoo『Superstition』を、7月にminamo『Superscience』をリリース、またDAOKOの4thアルバム『anima』1曲目に収録の「VOICE」をVegpherが作曲／編曲する。そして11月11日、前作『PLUS』に続くVegpher名義での3rdアルバム『minutus』をリリースする。
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発売日　　　： 2020年11月11日(水曜日)
アーティスト： Vegpher（ベグファー）
タイトル　　： Minutus（ミヌータス）
発売元　　　： PROGRESSIVE FOrM
販売元　　　： ULTRA-VYBE, INC.
規格番号　  ： PFCD101
価格（CD）　： 税抜本体価格￥2,200
収録曲数　　： 10曲
JAN 　　　　： 4526180540106
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B08J5HVV48/
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Dawning of the Light Ages II available at PayPal maxvasquez@maxxvaxxmusic.com for only $12.99 Buy 1 & the first Dawning’s free!
Max won Mark Isham/Sage Francis remix contest 2010 and the 2006 Best Jazz Album Of The Year by The Los Angeles Music Awards. Max has been in the music industry since 1976!
Maxx Vaxx Music Publishing BMI/Maxx Vaxx Music Productions started in 1996 as a small publishing outlet for music he's licensed to films/TV/commercials & now digital distribution, music biz consulting/business/marketing/tour plan writing, music production, online marketing, social media admin/management, SEO/Website Development, video production & more. Since 1978, Max works all styles. At 9, he performed with choirs, musicals & plays, taught himself how to read&write music by 13, and by 14 he was professionally playing trumpet in horn sections of bands all over L.A. and bass with members of punk band Verbal Abuse, a favorite of Rodney Bingenheimer. He also played with Black Flag members Sam & Henry & hung out with The Doors’ Ray Manzarek & John Doe, X and many others at the Whiskey Agogo. He is somewhere in the mosh pit shots from Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization- The Punk Years. In 1984, Jim "The Poorman" Trenton & Swedish Eagol played his music on KROQ when it was easier to give cool DJs your band's tape without needing to sign a mile of legal stuff! 
Doc Severinsen was amazed & encouraged him to pursue music when he looked over Max's first orchestral jazz arrangement he wrote at 16 yrs old! Trained with leading jazzmen, Max played and studied with Gary Foster, Clare Fischer, Charlie Haden, Alan Broadbent, Bobby Bradford, Freddie Hubbard. Max wrote for the Count Basie Orchestra! Dick Grove School of Music and Berklee College of Music for recording engineering & writing/arranging, respectfully, and Max was among the first pioneers in MIDI and electronic music. 
From ’82-‘94 with top jazz group, Watercolours, led by Jeff Stetson, playing L.A. Jazz. Trumpet, voice, keyboards, guitar, bass and the studio are his instruments. Interning at Group IV Studios led to working on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Abyss & Back To The Future Pt 3, among many more sessions including Will Smith, Sly&Robbie, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, and Jon Hassell. He has also performed with Oingo Boingo members, Mel E Mel & Whipple Whip (Grand Master Flash), The Crusaders' Stix Hooper & Joe Sample, War and Tower of Power, Tierra and Los Lobos sidemen, as well as Johnny Martinez(Celia Cruz), Kingston Ducoeur (Seabiscuit) and Master Tuvan Throat Singer Kongar-ol Ondar. Manhattan Transfer commissioned one of his pieces in the 80s. In the 1990s Max enjoyed modest success as an EDM Live Artist & DJ internationally in Latin America, Asia & The U.S. As part of Moontribe he performed in the famous underground SoCal desert Raves on many occasions. Collaborative projects with Treavor Walton on the album Luminescence (Priority Records) and Bassland on Pacific Rhythm (Harthouse Records), and co-founding member of Electric Skychurch David DeLaski's Fun For The Whole Family (Moonshine Records). Max also produced Hell To Tha Heavenz & Beyond (Tribe Music). ’98 saw tragedy in Max's life when a wild desert brush fire destroyed 3/4 of his life's work. In '99 he went to Panama and found success as a DJ and radio show producer with his hit underground program, Psychedelic Lunchbox. ‘’04, Max produced a seven CD comeback & won L.A. Music Awards Best Jazz Album and Best Lounge Artist of the Year in 2006, proving he wasn't done. Latin Lifestyles used one of his pieces for theme song along w/ My Name Is Earl, Judging Amy, the ‘99 Superbowl and Levar Burton’s Reading Rainbow & many TV bumps/commercials & video games. The film, October 22 w/Jay Mohr, Ernie Hudson & Amanda Plummer uses his songs. Max sings tenor in The Randy Van Horne Singers. He produced Jeff Stetson’s Cycle Of Life CD. Max Vasquez is also writing a novel based on his amazing adventures.

Love & Light

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