This is the background track for the Star.

17.THE STAR.--Hope and bright prospects, Reversed: Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says: arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(tarot_card)

By Pamela Coleman Smith - a 1909 card scanned by Holly Voley (http://home.comcast.net/~vilex/) for the public domain, and retrieved from http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot (see note on that page regarding source of images)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114011116

Tarot-Rized: Elaborate Tropes of the Arcana

Tarot-Rized: A Star is Scorned

Grikhy - Smozgh

Tempted to venture somewhere you shouldn't ??
This dark bluesy experiment riffs its way downtown....
[Headphones if possible.]
Photo by Mike Cialowicz c/o Pinterest

Back Alley Blues

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-12th-july-2024

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo 120724

Photo: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2011.

Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic and Godin Montreal Thinline through NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI, Arturia and Spitfire.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Bandcamp

Night Flight To Addis

Only Three Wires Connected The Brain to The Computer

Resistance

Valeblossom II

1. Jorge Ben Jor - Oba, Lá Vem Ela
2. Azymuth - Tamborim, Cuíca, Ganzá, Berimbau
3. El Chicano - Viva Tirado 
4. Deodato - Whistle Bump 
5. Astrud Gilberto - Who Can I Turn To? (When Nobody Needs Me) 
6. Ramsey Lewis - Summer Breeze 
7. Quincy Jones - Body Heat 
8. Mopp Deep - Temperature‘s Rising
9. NxWorries - Daydreaming 
10. Funky Fresh Few - Still Blowing Free
11. Roy Ayers - Searching 
12. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime (Instrumental) 
13. Liam Bailey - Young In Love 
14. Mo Kolours - Little Brown Dog 
15. Cedar Walton - Latin American 
16. Steve Khan - Soft Summer Breeze 
17. Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova
18. Maynard Ferguson - Portuguese Love
19. Günter Kallmann Choir - Daydream 
20. Henry Wu & Tito Wun - Don Müller
21. Burning Spear - Civilized Reggae 
22. Manuel Darquart - Birds Of Paradiso 
23. Archie Bells & The Drells - Strategy
24. Patrice Rushen - Watch Out 
25. Richy Pitch - Abanaba feat. Kwesi Dankwa 
26. Tom Scott - Time And Love 
27. Os Ipanemas - Berimbau 
28. Cedar Walton - Jacob‘s Ladder

SommerSlot

Festival preview recorded during the days of residency at Habitat cult(r)ural centre.
On air on Radio Alhara on Saturday 31/08

giesse b2b Flux by Uchiha - VENA c/o Habitat; ambient Festival preview

BABY WON’T YOU TAKE ME

Rockambo is a bassist from Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC.

Since the pandemic, he's been writing compositions using MIDI instrumentation (and struggling with latency issues on slow computers). He takes equal parts inspiration from Palladium-era Latin jazz (https://www.facebook.com/groups/LFCE893/), vintage 70s jazz-funk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8l4QR862COAotwH_cw9wQ), 00s electronica (https://somafm.com/spacestation/), contemporary lo-fi (https://open.spotify.com/album/2j4Mjok0KmnQ2ENfWIpUKf?si=MuUDlZW9TAuziw5LLmFjvg), and some ethnic music from the countries where he's lived (https://blog.scuolaleonardo.com/2023/04/25/bella-ciao-one-of-the-most-famous-italian-songs-in-the-world-from-the-resistance-to-money-heist/).

Since he can't find his way around a sequencer, he breaks away from repetitive beat loop patterns and seeks to create more organic pieces. Having said that, he only knows how to use a few DAW platforms which are all primarily loop-based ... it's complicated.

All recordings are original compositions recorded using SoundTrap, (http://www.soundtrap.com), and Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org). More recently, he's been mastering tracks in Ableton Live Lite (https://www.ableton.com/en/products/live-lite/) and learning how to use MPC Beats (https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-beats) ... he bought some MIDI controllers ... There are no pre-recorded loops. If you are getting into composition, you should grab this (https://www.asio4all.org/).

MIDI is currently being played through an Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 keytar and with a regular ASDF keyboard and a mouse. Rad.

The mixes are low, so turn them up!

Jim Greif says his biggest influence is the Doogie Houser theme song by Mike Post (https://youtu.be/zE4M3hPut7E). 

Rockambo is fluent in neurodiversity and his music is neurodivergent-friendly.

All the appropriate influences are noted where possible. Contact him before using or distributing this material.

Some music-related books worth checking out:
"Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer" by Frank Trocco, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37535.Analog_Days
"How Music Works" by David Byrne, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13235689-how-music-works
"Just Kids" by Patti Smith, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341879.Just_Kids
"This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession"
by Daniel J. Levitin, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141565.This_Is_Your_Brain_on_Music
"Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk"
by John Doe, Tom DeSavia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898106-under-the-big-black-sun

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