Cheb Zahouani-Rai

Cheb Zahouani has always been one of my favorite Rai Artist. I have always loved the scales as well as the Synth sounds which in most other context just wouldn't work. Here they do. I am amazed how it doesn't bother me that it takes over two and a half minutes for him to even start the song.

Recent Correspondance

Assist
Dear Sir/Madam,

AM King Joe and i want to know if you can assist me to make an order for scales. I would need to know the types you have in stock,let me know the prices and also the types of credit cards you do accept for payment,i also don't need shipping cost because i will be coming to your shop for pickup or recommend a shipping company for the pickup when the scales are ready. Please Advise ASAP So that the project of the scales will be fast.

Regards,
King.

Is it safe?

For those of you interested in Just Intonation, i have started a yahoo discussion group here.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/JustIntonation/?yguid=42458

Here is a safe haven to discuss the practice without having to justify itself. Something it seems it has to spend too much time doing. It is the music that matters and even though I can come up with many advantages of JI over other systems, i don't feel like putting any more energy into that. It gives us useful and rewarding possibilities, what more can one ask for. It is small group but the quality of those involved is high and most of all positive. It is more than open to those who are just getting their feet wet or want to hear what people are doing with it.

Another Yahoo Tuning Group

An Eastern Western for Koto

A short little composition for Koto. The scale is derived from Meta-Mavila. This scale was inspired by the Chopi tuning in the village of this name. The mode chosen was which most resembled a Japanese scale so we might have added some S.E. African reference in the title too. It is dedicated to my lovely wife, Terumi Narushima who supplied the photo of her Koto

Uroborean Mirrors-Excerpt of Audio Installation

There is an excerpt of a piece now up in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. for headphone only listening on this page.
It takes my Meta Slendro splitting into two scales that produce beats only in the brain as the wave never touch. It starts unbelievably soft but does get louder. More so beyond the limit of the excerpt.
More later!

Ali Akbar Khan

A soul who will be missed. but not his soul work which stays with us.