Nice mini-tutorial demo of Egoist

Sugar bytes egoist

Today's Musical Discoveries

Rude Buddha - Walk Walk Walk

Porcelain (Portastudio Version) - The Clientele

Electronic Jugoton - Synthetic Music From Yugoslavia 1964-1989

04 Michael Writes His Parents AREA 1986 White Canvas New Hope

Lou Reed & John Cale - Berlin - Bataclan '72

Interesting pedalboard design

Pretty neat expandable/contractable designs:
http://www.chemistrydesignwerks.com/index.html

Today's Musical Discoveries

Fairly standard rock song arrangement with Hindustani-style vocals on top.  Mainly saving to try to steal some licks from the vocal line and the flute solo.

Mekaal Hasan Band, Sayon, Coke Studio, Season 8, Episode 1

New Daniel Lanois album - probably only streaming free for a limited time:
Daniel Lanois - album 'Goodbye To Language'

Nice explanation of the gear involved, and a nice composition to boot
Tectonics (featuring Eventide H9, Electro Harmonix HOG 2, and Source Audio Aftershock)

David Torn is one of my inspirations as an improvisational musician.  One of many great examples:
https://soundcloud.com/jayapala/other-times-barely

Interesting Six-Harmonies article

The Six Harmonies "are guidelines for movement found in many Chinese martial arts, Shaolin, Taiji, Xingyi, Tanglang (Praying mantis), Bagua and probably many others."

Good article that explains what they are about - particularly interesting is how they can show up in movements outside of martial arts.

http://www.i-bagua.com/six-harmonies/

Today's Musical Discoveries

Ok, this isn't a new discovery for me - it's more of a re-discovery of a song I actually liked as a kid:
Evelyn "Champagne" King - I'm In Love

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto Vrioon

The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time

This Mortal Coil - Late Night

Outside The Dream Sindicate - Tony Conrad (1972) Full Album Disc 1 & 2

https://soundcloud.com/vicky-chow/philip-glass-two-pages-live-at-the-risd-museum

Eight Lines

So Percussion performs Reich's "Mallet Quartet"

Sextet, by Steve Reich (FULL PERFORMANCE)

Africa Express Presents: Terry Riley's In C Mali

Philip Glass - Anima Mundi OST / Soundtrack (full album)

Steve Reich Four Organs Phase Patterns

Marimba Phase - Steve Reich

Game Boy Phase

The Blackearth Percussion Group

Whipped Crean - Observatory Crest