Zuleikha plays her composition “You stood by”

Our daughter allowed me to upload this on Wikiloops, where she also added the chord structure:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

And she’s collecting some thumb-ups and nice comments already, which is cool. Waiting for her to create her own identity in the ‘loops, so I could give her thumbs-ups as well (and maybe play some bass on some of her stuff?).

Thanks for listening.

It gets jazzier…

Fresh from the publishing press this evening:

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Hear it here if you want. Download it if you like it.

Involved musicians:

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Thanks for listening. I also set up a small link to this album in the widgets on the right, just like I did for the other three.

Update from Nov 1st:

And this morning, my newest was album of the day over at Wikiloops:

Thanks for reading, and for listening.

Rainforest Green / Fallen Skies

Two wonderful compositions from Wikiloops members which sound like they were made to be played after each other – enjoy…

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

List of musicians:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

List of musicians:

Thanks for listening.

Wrote a short review of a DVD on IMDb

The movie I wrote about is “A Film About Kids and Music“, and my short review of it is here.

I didn’t get the link to the Tom Jobim tribute site correctly there, and also got Ramon’s name wrong in the end, but I hope it helps selling a few more of these DVDs – buying one would be totally worth it IMO.

I had written about that music school project several times before, and also about the Tom Jobim tribute page, here for instance.

Joan Chamorro thanked me already (I had informed him with email about my review), and he sent back this nice article about the band.

And yes, sometimes I cry when seeing or hearing beautiful things. Sokrates explained that in his Phaidros, a short German summary can be found on Wikipedia. The essence of it: music is very powerful, it can remind your soul of the divine beauty.

Thanks for reading.

P.S.: Read the comments under this video which is an excerpt from the DVD sans subs, and you will get an idea of what kind of beauty I was talking about above. It captures everyone.

Scam (they try, but poorly)

I got a few emails lately which contained an unsecure password I once used somewhere – and that site was hacked, and millions of user accounts and passwords were compromised, such as mine. Sites such as TechCrunch reported about that breach.

The emails come from a fake well-known account at Yahoo; these all have more or less the same format.

The threat is the following: they claim I was using some delicate (meaning porn) sites, and while doing so, they – in possession of my password – could hack into *my* system and turn on the webcam, filming me while whatever I would have been doing while consuming that ‘delicate’ stuff.

Problem is, I don’t have a webcam…

Nice try, guys, but sorry – no bitcoins from me. Go f**k yourselves.

Arvo by the billabong

Found a nice track from RobM (guitar) and Wade (Sax) to which I just added my bass:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

List of musicians:

In this track I used a virtualized effects pedal board called “Rakarrack”, on a separate channel in Ardour. Looks like this:

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Thanks for reading and for listening.