Tracks from the Crate
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Keysdweller
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Nice. Good mix of guitar and bass.
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frostyjr2
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For this week's Fall Back Friday, here's a set of material that was originally released back in 2017:
Floating World
Ukiyo-e, often translated as "pictures of the floating world," refers to Japanese paintings and woodblock prints
that originally depicted the cities' pleasure districts during the Edo Period, when the sensual attributes of life were
encouraged amongst a tranquil existence under the peaceful rule of the Shoguns.
These idyllic narratives not only document the leisure activities and climate of the era, they also depict the decidedly
Japanese aesthetics of beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love, and sex.
The people and environments in which the higher classes emerged themselves became the popular subjects for ukiyo-e works.
This included sumo wrestlers, courtesans, the actors of kabuki theatre, geishas and teahouse mistresses, warriors, and other characters
from the literature and folklore of the time.
By combining uki for sadness and yo for life, the word ukiyo-e originally reflected the Buddhist concept of life as a transitory illusion,
involving a cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth. But ironically, during the early Edo period, another ideograph which meant "to float,"
similarly pronounced as uki, came into usage, and the term became associated with wafting on life's worldly pleasures.
The structure of the album is based on a triangle and its inverted image, which is a reduction of Hokusai's print 'Reflection In Lake At Misaka In Kai Province' from the 'Thirty-Six Views Of Mt. Fuji' series.
The opening and closing tracks are performed on solo bass, the 2nd and 4th tracks are with bass and guitar, and the centerpiece is guitar only.
The tracks are also working in the basic unit of threes time-wise, 3, 6. and 9 minutes in duration, then 6 and 3 again, and the total running time
is about 27 minutes, which gives a numerological number 9, or 3 x 3....
beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love, and sex.
Welcome to the Floating World.
Floating World
Ukiyo-e, often translated as "pictures of the floating world," refers to Japanese paintings and woodblock prints
that originally depicted the cities' pleasure districts during the Edo Period, when the sensual attributes of life were
encouraged amongst a tranquil existence under the peaceful rule of the Shoguns.
These idyllic narratives not only document the leisure activities and climate of the era, they also depict the decidedly
Japanese aesthetics of beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love, and sex.
The people and environments in which the higher classes emerged themselves became the popular subjects for ukiyo-e works.
This included sumo wrestlers, courtesans, the actors of kabuki theatre, geishas and teahouse mistresses, warriors, and other characters
from the literature and folklore of the time.
By combining uki for sadness and yo for life, the word ukiyo-e originally reflected the Buddhist concept of life as a transitory illusion,
involving a cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth. But ironically, during the early Edo period, another ideograph which meant "to float,"
similarly pronounced as uki, came into usage, and the term became associated with wafting on life's worldly pleasures.
The structure of the album is based on a triangle and its inverted image, which is a reduction of Hokusai's print 'Reflection In Lake At Misaka In Kai Province' from the 'Thirty-Six Views Of Mt. Fuji' series.
The opening and closing tracks are performed on solo bass, the 2nd and 4th tracks are with bass and guitar, and the centerpiece is guitar only.
The tracks are also working in the basic unit of threes time-wise, 3, 6. and 9 minutes in duration, then 6 and 3 again, and the total running time
is about 27 minutes, which gives a numerological number 9, or 3 x 3....
beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love, and sex.
Welcome to the Floating World.
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frostyjr2
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Close Isn't Close Enough
Inky (Fodera Imperial Mini MG) and .strandberg* Boden OS 6
There's a lot of talk from some quarters about how digital modeling still isn't there for them;
personally i think i get very useable sounds out of the HX Stomp, and i've gotten regular compliments
about my tones, even from some in the jazz community (who tend to be rather picky about such things).
Inky (Fodera Imperial Mini MG) and .strandberg* Boden OS 6
There's a lot of talk from some quarters about how digital modeling still isn't there for them;
personally i think i get very useable sounds out of the HX Stomp, and i've gotten regular compliments
about my tones, even from some in the jazz community (who tend to be rather picky about such things).
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frostyjr2
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Thanks ever so much for those kind comments!
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Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
Wow! So prolific. It takes me awhile to catch up on these.
Just fantastic. Nice moody pieces, should put a bunch on a stick to play in car. Would make a nice album of easy listening.
Just crazy amounts of stuff here!!!
Just fantastic. Nice moody pieces, should put a bunch on a stick to play in car. Would make a nice album of easy listening.
Just crazy amounts of stuff here!!!