The Cairo Connection

This is the background track for the Fool card.

The Fool is one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. In tarot card reading, it is one of the 22 Major Arcana, sometimes numbered as 0 (the first) or XXII (the last). However, in decks designed for playing traditional tarot card games, it is typically unnumbered, as it is not one of the 21 trump cards and instead serves a unique purpose by itself. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(tarot_card)]

This is v5.4. This song has evolved, but I'm still hoping to augment the dynamics. Tried to improve tone and timing of guitars.

By Jean Dodal - http://www.tarot-history.com/Jean-Dodal/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4687599

Tarot-Rized: Elaborate Tropes of the Arcana

Tarot-Rized: Crafting a Melange with a Tincture from the Fool

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: A Star is Scorned

This is the background track for the Lovers card.

6. THE LOVERS.—Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome. Reversed: Failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovers

By Pamela Colman Smith - una carta de 1909 escanéada por Holly Voley (http://home.comcast.net/~vilex/) para el dominio público, y recuperado de http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5714746

Tarot-Rized: Afficinado/Afligida, Lovers in the Sun

This is the background track for the Fool and the Devil cards.

The major arcana cards tell a story called the Fool's journey, beginning from The Fool and ending with The World. The Devil comes after the fourteenth major arcana card, Temperance. The Devil represents the Fool's involvement in economic materialism and complacency. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_(tarot_card)]

By Unknown author - Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=696683

Tarot-Rized: Judgement and "Teenage" Dirt Devil

This is the background track for the wheel of fortune card.

A common aspect to most interpretations of this card within a reading is to introduce an element of change in the querent's life, such change being in station, position or fortune: such as the rich becoming poor, or the poor becoming rich. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_(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=114011095

Tarot-Rized: Industrial Grade Cumbia to the Wheel of Fortune!

This is the background track for the Death card.

Death (XIII) is the 13th trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in tarot card games as well as in divination. The card typically depicts the Grim Reaper, and when used for divination is often interpreted as signifying major changes in a person's life.

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=114011104

Tarot-Rized: Clearly Death Will Set Sail for the Moon!!

This is the background track for the High Priestess card.

According to A. E. Waite's 1910 book Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the High Priestess card is associated with:

"Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent herself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science. Reversed: Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge."

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=114010983

Tarot-Rized: High Priestess, Fetishized Focus of Amorous Ardor

The final piece for this series! This is the background track for the Empress/Isis-Urania card.

In another order of ideas, the card of the Empress signifies the door or gate by which an entrance is obtained into this life, as into the Garden of Venus; and then the way which leads out therefrom, into that which is beyond, is the secret known to the High Priestess: it is communicated by her to the elect. Most old attributions of this card are completely wrong on the symbolism—as, for example, its identification with the Word, Divine Nature, the Triad, and so forth. [Wikipedia, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pictorial_Key_to_the_Tarot#III._The_Empress]

By Pamela Colman Smith - The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=138928470

Tarot-Rized: The Uranian influence on Isis by the Cubic Stone

Tarot-Rized: The Uranian influence on the Cubic Stone

another remake from a 90s MIDI file of an indie track. the original called Camus - thus reinforcing the pretentious nature of most introverted teenagers writing music and reading 'complex' philosophical books (when the other kids were reading Viz and allowed out to the cinema / bowling or whatever else everyone else seemed to have done at the weekend, when I seemed to be permanently grounded. and when I did get to go out, my parents would pick me up so early, I was a laughing stock and not invited out again.  probably something to do with always being the last person to go home on a night out during my 20s.  and most of my 30s too).

of course, back in 1993 - 4 i didn't know what the future would bring.  but looking back now doing these rewrites, I can take myself back to that time and remember many distinct moments.  perhaps this should be called 'what the past will bring'?

What The Future Will Bring

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

30+ years of writing music.  now back to lots of hardware to complement the soft synths.  And of course, the compulsion to add the kitchen sink, fridge and oven is still there!

Kit:
Logic 
Cubase
Ableton Live
Reason
Expose
Loopcloud
Arturia V collection, Pigments
Arturia microfreak, minifreak, matrixbrute, minibrute, Spark 
Roland boutique Juno, Jupiter, JP3, 808 and 909
Arturia Audiofuse
Focusrite Scarlett
Roland Jupiter Xm, JD-Xi, Gaia SH-01 MDC-1 Dance Module
Korg Modwave, microKorg, MicroKorg XL, korg ER-1, korg 05RW, kaoss pad
Novation ultranova, mininova, a-station, Circuit Tracks
Access Virus-b
Beringher Deep Mind 12, UB-Xa, TD-3, Crave, MS-1
Nord Stage EX
Sequential Prophet 2000
Waldorf Pulse
M-audio Venom
Native instruments kontakt, massive, reaktor, FM8, battery, guitar rig, traktor, maschine, absynth, and the rest of the ultimate collection 
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Spitfire Albion 
Aria orchestra 
Softube Parallels
Waves Gold and a lot of their plug ins. Abbey Road TG, brauer motion, butch vig vocals, ovox, flow motion
Isotope ozone
Sugar Bytes effectrix, looperator, turnado, factory, cyclop, obscurium 
Audio damage dubstation, panstation
AAS lounge lizard, strum, chromophone
UVI relay 
Fender Stratocaster 
Schecfer Diamond Electric 
Line6 Pod Guitar Mukti Effects 
Boss guitar multi effects and various other pedals 
Peavey Bass 
Yamaha DTX electronic drum kit 
Alesia drum pads 
Stanton turntables

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3083762/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5_tt_0_nm_8_q_andrew%2520mccormack

New tracks tagged #programmed drums