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Brett’s Sound Picks

January 14, 2015

Brett’s Sound Picks: Toumani And Sidiki Diabate’s “Rachid Ouiguini”

Spiraling interlock, joyful sadness, around and around four inevitable chords, imprinting hope through groove, the kora music of Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté makes the case for acoustic duets: Continue reading

Brett’s Sound Picks

joyful sadness, Sidiki Diabaté
November 14, 2014

Brett’s Sound Picks: Glenn Kotche’s “Anomaly: Mvt. II”

There’s a wonderful rhythmic insistence to this music–a rolling 6-beat feel with shifting accents that blends the sounds of string quartet (Kronos) with a multi-percussion drumset part. In its positive energy it evokes the homespun of Charles Schultz’s Peanuts mixed with the shimmer of Indonesian gamelan… Continue reading

Brett’s Sound Picks

Charles Schultz, positive energy, string quartet

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

Brett’s Sound Picks

Brett’s Sound Picks: Toumani And Sidiki Diabate’s “Rachid Ouiguini”

Brett’s Sound Picks: Glenn Kotche’s “Anomaly: Mvt. II”