Cigars & Whiskey

Don't look for a message in this track – there isn't one. 

But I do think this is a first for me: 120bpm, that ubiquitous default tempo which I usually go out of my way to avoid.
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So this one's all about the groove, and for those unfamiliar with the concept (and who would like to find out why trying to turn music into language is often a fruitless undertaking)...

UK musicologist Richard Middleton (1999) notes that while "the concept of groove" has "long [been] familiar in musicians' own usage", musicologists and theorists have only more recently begun to analyze this concept. Middleton states that a groove "... marks an understanding of rhythmic patterning that underlies its role in producing the characteristic rhythmic 'feel' of a piece." He notes that the "feel created by a repeating framework" is also modified with variations. 

Turry and Aigen cite Feld's definition of groove as "an intuitive sense of style as process, a perception of a cycle in motion, a form or organizing pattern being revealed, a recurrent clustering of elements through time." Aigen states that "when [a] groove is established among players, the musical whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, enabling a person […] to experience something beyond himself which he[/she] cannot create alone (Aigen 2002, p.34)." 

Jeff Pressing's 2002 article claimed that a "groove or feel" is "a cognitive temporal phenomenon emerging from one or more carefully aligned concurrent rhythmic patterns, characterized by...perception of recurring pulses, and subdivision of structure in such pulses,...perception of a cycle of time, of length 2 or more pulses, enabling identification of cycle locations, and...effectiveness of engaging synchronizing body responses (e.g. dance, foot-tapping)". 

Neuroscientific perspectives:

The "groove" has been cited as an example of sensory-motor coupling between neural systems. Sensory-motor coupling is the coupling or integration of the sensory system and motor system. Sensorimotor integration is not a static process. For a given stimulus, there is no one single motor command. "Neural responses at almost every stage of a sensorimotor pathway are modified at short and long timescales by biophysical and synaptic processes, recurrent and feedback connections, and learning, as well as many other internal and external variables".

Courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_(music)

Going Deeper

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431 - Dream Catcher

This is another track  I've added to a compilation album I've put together of all my best bits over the past two years called 'Soul Lounge' . This new solo fender rhodes keys track takes the the album track listing to twenty three :)

If you fancy a listen to the other tracks, or if you feel the love, you can buy a CD sound quality copy from - https://markyd1.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-silence or the whole album here http://markyd1.bandcamp.com/album/soul-lounge

Artwork c/o http://www.loungemasters.org/

436 - Crystal Silence from Soul Lounge

450 - Haven

Creato nel Luglio del 2013, mi sono dilettato e divertito, nell' intento di creare un brano orecchiabile, fluido e carino, dal sound morbido e scorrevole. Buon ascolto e grazie.

Secrets P

Here's my latest late night jazz offering, hope you like.

Secrets P

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