Skip to main content

Closing the Blog

 This blog has been inactive for a while. The reason why? I went and did a job as an airport janitor, and I didn't have the energy to keep this up. Now I am going to school to be a sound technician. I may update this infrequently, or this may be the last page. Who is to say?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tubular!

     Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells is an album for any Progressive Rock lover. It has a nice neoclassical sound alongside nice intricate guitar work, and good usage of organ and synthesizer. If you like your music short and simple, you may not like Tubular Bells, but I would suggest listening anyway, because it is good to broaden horizons, and challenge the ideas one has regarding music.      The record starts out with some interesting and intricate piano lines. It is later joined by a doubling synthesizer. This helps solidify this melody. I think the repetitiveness of this line helps make a complex piece like this catchy. It boggles the mind that a complex melody could be catchy, or an odd rhythm could be groovy, but progressive rock shows us that this is all possible, just listen to the album.      There is a great moment on this album where synth and (I assume) acoustic guitar come together and then there is a crescendo then electric gu...
Post a Comment
Read more

African Roots by the Skatalites

     African Roots by the Skatalites is an album that was released in 1976. According to the writing on the album, the Skatalites new sound then, was reggae. Their usual sound is ska...which is more upbeat. The tracks on this album are mislabeled. African roots is the name of the album, not the name of a track on the album. Each track has the name below it, and I call the last track “the last track”. There is a slower track on this album named Rock Bottom. Rock Bottom is a track with a pleasant dark atmosphere. It also possesses a strong reggae groove. The guitar on this track and its minor chords contribute to this wonderful vibe, as does the minor melody of the horns. The tenor sax solos on all of these tracks are good. They are simple (usually) yet memorable. There is noticeable jazz phrasing in some of the solos on this track. This makes since, because the musicians on this album were jazz musicians, before they were ska or reggae musicians. The guitar and flute so...
Post a Comment
Read more