Every Day A Blessing

Three amazing things have happened lately which make me realize the
important emotive, and archetypal nature of our microtonal labors:

1. I played my new CD "Galunlati" for my youngest brother, and he
was visibly overwhelmed by the effect and emotional power of
microtonal scales. To see his reaction was alone worth the 8 months
of effort. He's a very critical person too, who won't hesitate to say
if he dislikes something (which I greatly respect) - but he was
beside himself.

2. An African American R&B producer I know, bought a copy of the
CD from me, and returned a few days later with his first microtonal
composition for me to check out. He had got inspired to dig into the
preset scales in his Korg Trinity, and made this lovely little tune
with Hip-Hop beats. I was touched that he was that inspired enough by
the sounds of microtonality, to actually make a tune. A very
interesting experience that showed me that microtonality can make the
leap to pop music without a problem. Who ever doubted anyway? I've
always recognized that R&B has allot of melisima in the vocals
anyway - so to adopt microtones to this music would be a natural step
in the direction of African music aesthetics.

3. Bill Smith (my wonderfully talented frame drummer friend), gave
a copy of the CD to the Scottish Harpist/Traditional Folk Vocalist in
his Celtic group, and now she wishes to join the creative Tribal
Collective.

Every day is a Blessing, and what a great time to be alive and making
microtonal music. I'm constantly seeing the signs of how powerful it
can be for folks to hear the new sounds. Keep spreading the word and
the music friends - I think it's only a matter of time before the
seeds of our labors will grow forth new Trees of Musical Life.

Thanks,

Jacky Ligon

--- In tuning@y..., ligonj@n... wrote:
> Three amazing things have happened lately which make me realize the
> important emotive, and archetypal nature of our microtonal labors:
>
> 1. I played my new CD "Galunlati" for my youngest brother, and
he
> was visibly overwhelmed by the effect and emotional power of
> microtonal scales. To see his reaction was alone worth the 8 months
> of effort. He's a very critical person too, who won't hesitate to
say
> if he dislikes something (which I greatly respect) - but he was
> beside himself.
>
> 2. An African American R&B producer I know, bought a copy of the
> CD from me, and returned a few days later with his first microtonal
> composition for me to check out. He had got inspired to dig into
the
> preset scales in his Korg Trinity, and made this lovely little tune
> with Hip-Hop beats. I was touched that he was that inspired enough
by
> the sounds of microtonality, to actually make a tune. A very
> interesting experience that showed me that microtonality can make
the
> leap to pop music without a problem. Who ever doubted anyway? I've
> always recognized that R&B has allot of melisima in the vocals
> anyway - so to adopt microtones to this music would be a natural
step
> in the direction of African music aesthetics.
>
> 3. Bill Smith (my wonderfully talented frame drummer friend),
gave
> a copy of the CD to the Scottish Harpist/Traditional Folk Vocalist
in
> his Celtic group, and now she wishes to join the creative Tribal
> Collective.
>
> Every day is a Blessing, and what a great time to be alive and
making
> microtonal music. I'm constantly seeing the signs of how powerful
it
> can be for folks to hear the new sounds. Keep spreading the word
and
> the music friends - I think it's only a matter of time before the
> seeds of our labors will grow forth new Trees of Musical Life.

...and Galunlati provides much fertile ground for those spreading new
trees. Your work is a blessing to this world Jacky - we'll see many
more good effects from it and may you be continually blessed by the
microtonal Muse.

~Jim
http://www.spectralvoices.com