This is my version of an imagined movie soundtrack. I have named it the 'mission imbecile mix', and it seems to get people dancing. boing boing...

Bonsella Queen

A nu-jazz quartet; a soundscape in four parts by South African multi-media artist Nicolaas Maritz / 2013.

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Dhoop Sticks Quartet (3. DEEP TRAIN STATION) - Nicolaas Maritz

A nu-jazz quartet; a soundscape in four parts by South African multi-media artist Nicolaas Maritz.

Dhoop Sticks Quartet (2. RAINY DAY)- Nicolaas Maritz

A Nu-jazz quartet; a soundscape in four parts by South African multi-media artist Nicolaas Maritz / 2013

Dhoop Sticks Quartet (1. DJEMBE DJANGO) - Nicolaas Maritz

Imagine a clutch of jazz-crazy drag queens somewhere in the tribal region of deep space, with only a keyboard to amuse themselves with.

Syncopated Drag Queens

The small tinkling world of the fish bowl effect; are the fish in the bowl the prisoners, or us, on this side of the glass...
Check out the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7SLtutYbVw

Glass Prison

What happens in a graveyard usually stays in a graveyard, unless the party-gnomes go for jive-walkies.

Graveyard Gnome

The Boy with the Big Didgeridoo

A short sound tribute to an endlessly beautiful nasturtium leaf that I found in my garden the other day. I was entranced, so I made a musical sound-salad of samples, loops and original bits and pieces.

Nasturtium Leaf

In a dream, the Rain Queen Modjadji leaves her quiet mountain kingdom, to visit Mumbai. India is far and the mix is rather loud and exotic, but the Queen reposes behind her African dream spectacles. Her curious joy is kept secret.

Queen Modjadji visits Mumbai

A soundtrack/soundscape for a movie about a rhinosceros. I love rhinos. It's enraging to see them being killed for their horns. We used to sing 'Where have all the flowers gone', soon we could be singing 'Where have all the rhinos gone!'...check out the video at http://youtu.be/oDudXuSTLZI 

RHINO STOMPER

It was very dry in these parts. But then came the rain...

And then came the rain

The Man from Maputo (katemba mix)

Johannesburg Jump

Did it start with piano lessons in the 1960's? I don't know really. Maybe much before; birds singing in the sub-tropical bushveld near Thabazimbi. Some school choir, and then a bit of Oratorio choir singing later; guitar and banjo nights at the Four Winds Folk Club. Oops! I knew and listened to Bach before I really knew about the bible or TV or anything grown-up like that. Of course it was David Bowie next. New musical messiah I suppose. Very slinky. Then it was downhill all the way to, yes I will admit, even to the trenches of TRANCE, although I reserve judgment on that one till much later. Now I've got garageband and FL and acid and it seems endless FREE LOOPS, so it's very much bob's yer uncle. And I've become attuned to the happy accidents; those incidental in-between acoustic noises that are so elusive; so beautiful. All those labels, those tags, those tidy descriptions...what's the point? Soundcloud is now so very dense with generic club music. It's all got a bit degenerated, a bit thin, but hey...we kids must have our funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. For me it's more exciting now to find individual musicians here and there who can express themselves through a landscape of fascinating patterns of sound, not just switch on some kind of beat and feel wanted. Now I call myself a soundscaper. It's a whole new language to discover every time. I'ts magic. It keeps me young...and tender...and you?

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