Owner: Al-brk URL:http://al-brk.blogspot.com Join Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:22:47 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: This blog shows the musical career and creative work made by peruvian multi-instrumentist and composer Al-brk, during the last 25 years in the field of fusion and experimental pop music. Este blog muestra el trabajo musical del multi-instruemntista peruan Site statistics:Click here
The Quarter Tone of a Quarter Note (El Cuarto de Tono de una Nota un Cuarto) 2008-07-03 18:10:50 My first approach to Greek music, and later to Eastern European and Asian music, encouraged me after some time, to found an institution and a musical group with the objective to spread and promote in my country the music from all around the world. The quarter tone, a characteristic melodic element in several musical traditions (arab, indian, greek, etc.), would be used to adopt a name with glo
Joining "Quarter Note" ( Integrando "Quarter Note") 2008-06-23 12:30:15 This popular greek song called "I went to the place I met you for the first time" was recorded live from a concert given by Quarter Note band (here in trio format) at the New Acropolis Association in Lima- Peru (March 2006), where I was playing the greek bouzouki. ___________ Esta canción popular griega titulada “Yo fui al lugar donde te vi por primera vez” fue grabada en vivo de un Read more:Joining
The Greek Fire* (El Fuego Griego*) 2008-05-25 00:40:39 In 1993 I knew the person in charge of Cultural Affairs of Greek
Embassy in Lima, who introduced me to the folk and popular music of its country. I couldn’t believe what I was listening. It was something totally new for me. Scales, rhythmic organization, melodic ornamentations, phrasings and improvisations were different from all I had listened before. I was surprised to see how
The First End (El Primer Final) 2008-05-23 13:28:11 I was very excited to begin my musical studies because I had read a lot about the university I was attending and about its avant-garde status in contemporary music education. I did my best in order to take advantage of the high academic level of professors and classmates. It was a period of hard study and practice which helped me to improve my guitar technique as well as my theoretical knowled Read more:First
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I’m going … ( Voy ... ) 2008-05-19 13:14:26 “I was in the middle of a discussion but what I get was the absurdity, I became prepared. Tired of the neon lights and fed up with manipulation, I took off. And I’m traveling without preoccupation I’m ignoring all the splendour And I’m traveling to another direction I’m shunnig the resignation…” These lyrics were written when I joined the experimental pop band
Con-Fusion 2008-05-11 13:51:01 Returning to rock, salsa and cumbia , made me to reaffirm my taste in those genres, and stimulated me to make compositions within the fusion style. It was by that time (1988) that I attended an audition for the urban and fusion music band called Cantaro. After being accepted, I began to work with the band. Joining Cantaro allowed me to apply many of the techniques and concepts I’ve learned i
Joining "Cantaro" ( Integrando "Cántaro") 2008-05-04 15:48:11 By the time I was joining the band as a electric guitar player and singer, I composed this song (called "Transparence"). The version you hear here was recorded from a live concert given at the ICPNA Auditorium in Lima-Peru (April 1989). ______________ En el tiempo que estuve integrando el grupo como guitarrista y cantante, compuse esta canción llamada “Transparencia”. La versión q Read more:Joining
The best music of the World? ( La mejor música del Mundo? ) 2008-02-22 19:45:03 During this formative stage my taste in jazz was very strong. I listened a lot of music, practiced and rehearsed every time, and made presentations continuously. The improvisation of jazz was for me the non plus ultra musical expression of freedom and technicality. However, in few years, I realized that jazz, as well as many other genres, had their rules and their own parameters within whi Read more:World
The Hare & The Turtle ( La Liebre y la Tortuga ) 2008-02-03 21:51:39 By some reason I born with a special gift for perform and create rhythm patterns, which became evident while I was growing. Every thing I did at home, at school or everywhere, I used to do it by playing some rhythm with hands, feet, mouth, etc. This action was always totally spontaneous and natural. When I started studying electric guitar and music theory, the first thing I looked for wa Read more:Tortuga
To be Born while to be Dying (Naciendo mientras se agoniza) 2008-07-17 22:14:44 A partir de 1998 y durante casi dos años, con el tecladista Jaime Portal Luchini, desarrollamos un proyecto creativo conjunto en que mezclamos diversos elementos de la Música el Mundo, dentro del rock y el pop experimental. El proyecto recibió el nombre de Plaka (en alusión al barrio bohemio griego), y la producción resultante, “Zona Testigo”*. Su presentación estuvo prevista para Ma Read more:Dying
Lost Music (La Música Perdida) 2008-07-10 18:09:33 By the time I started working with Quarter Note (1994), my interest in peruvian music was focused in the one which had been traditionally forgotten and sometimes even underestimated by most of the cultural institutions, researchers and musicians; and, as it may be expected, remained practically unknown for most of the peruvian people. I am talking about the Amazon Music
. Although I had initi
Scaling the scales (Escalando escalas) 2008-08-02 18:57:23 Uno de los principales objetivos del proyecto Plaka fue mezclar elementos musicales de diversas regiones del mundo, así como crear nuevas posibilidades sonoras a partir de nuestras propias experiencias musicales. Ese interés quedó plasmado en varias canciones de la producción Zona Testigo, tanto en el aspecto melódico, rítmico, como en el aspecto armónico y los arreglos musicales. E Read more:Scaling
With the World's Pulse on Board ( Con el Latido del Mundo a Bordo) 2008-08-17 21:28:25 As for the rhythmical matter it was applied some rhythms from different regions of the world. Here are two examples: In the song “Resurrection Chant” an asymmetric rhythm of 5/4, so common in greek music, was used for the verses and for the keyboard solo (hear the audio below); while the chorus was in a 6/4 compound time. The main musical instrument performed in this song is the g Read more:World
, Pulse
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Microtonal Feeling (Sentimiento Microtonal) 2008-08-17 12:55:34 * edited image of a Farha Deeba’s painting (imagen editada de una pintura de Farha Deeba) Microtonality was another element applied in some songs of Witness Zone production, by using some stringed instruments (among them, the violin and the fretless guitar), and making also use of the slide on the electrical guitar and the pitch bend on the keyboard. Two examples can be given with regard Read more:Feeling
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