Archive for the ‘Spoon’ Category

Good things on the remix front.

1) An editorial pick on CCmixter for my Spoon remix !

2) Remixes galore, people are listening and making my voice a part of their own music which is incredibly satisfying.

I have to report, the more and more I delve into the world of creative commons the happier I have become. I just find it pretty cool that some dude in Barcelona takes a microphone into a library one day and two years later I am mixing it into a weird love ballad called Breaking Apart. The building of something so giant and collective, yet your tiny part is so important.
The only strange part of this particular road I have taken is that I am playing my piano less and less, but my work is becoming less structured and reliant upon complicated chord changes. I am paying more attention to percussion and transitions and finding melody in tiny, millisecond pieces of music that I can manipulate and turn into harmonic progressions.
And no, I haven’t started smoking pot.

So first off, I mix Murat (Ses) and Murat mixes me. This guy has done quite a lot musically, and has put some work up into the creative commons based upon traditional Anatolian themes and chord progressions. I have learned that the etymology for Anadolu comes from two words: mother and full, or to be full of Motherliness which I most certainly am!

Mourning Dew (Ana Dolu Mix)- Kaer Trouz Featuring Narva9 & Murat Ses

Anatolia Meets Central Asian Steps-Murat Ses Featuring Demir, Kaer Trouz & pingnews)

and then a super fun, poppy dance number from Slumberlords in Alicante, Spain

Falling-Slumberlords featuring KaerTrouz (vocal from My Apocalypse Now, vertical Split Mix)

and a lovely ballad from Darkroom (aka mactonite)

Breaking Apart-Darkroom featuring Kaer Trouz (vocal from Breaking Apart, Sous Bois)

That’s a lot of music in one week-end, non?

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One of the cool things about remixing (I know, again again again) is the ability to hook up, albeit virtually and perhaps without their knowledge, and lend your own spin to their work. So this week, some cool intersections.

First of all, on ccmixter, I found an mp3 from a Wired Magazine pack. Spoon has been with me lately, mainly due to my old friend, Robert Rising, giving me a random CD of awesome pop, the best of which was Cherry Bomb off of Gagagaga. This may be the best pop song I have ever heard in my life, and made me deliriously happy in the downtrodden, week-after-new-years that I had here in 2008. So I remixed their song, Revenge into a weirdo, ambient piece.

Secondly, I returned to my piano roots, sharing a duet with old dog, whose chops are definitely better than mine (his playing comes after the break, mine before).

Third, another strange coincidence with a Turkish musician of note, Murat Ses, an innovator of Turkish pop music, who like my Father before him, was/is revolutionary in changing Turkish music from oral folk tradition into something quite modern and new. He asked if I would relinquish a non-commercial creative commons license into a commercial one with attribution. I said yes (of course, effendim). The odd thing is, we had no idea who the other was, I had no idea of his legacy and he had no idea I was the daughter of another legacy. I am trying to remix his Anadolu Pop Theme, and it is KICKING MY ASS but I will finish.

I have sent some more loops off to ditto ditto, in France, who I hope to meet in person in March when I go there. So hopefully another collaboration will come of these loops.

Here is the music:

Breaking Apart, Sous Bois (featuring old dog, plagasul & dplante)

Revenge (Mix Cuit A Four) featuring viop & Spoon

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