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Hvala puno !Yea sometimes I think I am addicted to reverb I actually always refrain myself from over reverbing the s***T out of everything! Your "Incredible Hulk" song is so dope! And your last work in Swahili is crazy, I am learning Sotho , anohter African Language, I am very impressed with your eagerness to learn too!
@edprivat Same here, reverb is its own instrument for me, and I put less and less of it to create more headroom when I produce, but I still put a lot compared to standards :) I wish to make a grand tour around Africa, especially Mali and the Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya region. I'm in love with polyrhythm and various traditional instruments like Kora, Balafon and Ibo, I made this track 2 years ago as a rendition to the Malinese music
Is Sotho spoken in your region?
It's my wife's language (and our children) , it's from the kingdom of Lesotho but you can find variation of it throughout southern Africa, like Tswana in Botswana,
What an amazing music you did, I was trying to count at the beginning is it a 10/8 (rhythm) ?
@edprivat Start is actually 4/4 or 8/8 (kinda the same thing) there is a poly-rhythmic part where it is (4/4 crossed with 5/4) :) seems odd beat in some other places but it is just because of the arrangement, how are things down there in RSA and Lesotho?
I just got confused counting the poly-rhythmic part of the song (never counted it actually) and I updated the above comment three times already 😆 it seems that it is a cross between the 4/4 and 7/16, because the guitar is in odd beat and it doesn't sit with anything else but 7/16
Hahah I got lost on it for a while bruh, I counted it as a 9.5/8 the first time around!
Things are good here in Johannesburg, South Africa, but we wouldn't mind leaving off a piece of land on the coast in few years.
Where are you planning to do your tour?
I'm glad to hear things are well down there, some people told me it can get hard for them to leave their properties in the rural zone due to local gangster activity. I actually meant to do a tour in Africa like a journey not a band tour :) but touring as a band I will do that in the western europe and in the US in the future, now I have other goals more important, but I still record music
I am happy that you talk about it with caution, as most of the info relayed are being distorted.
You will be surprised to see how many countries would enjoy your music throughout Africa so that's why I was welcoming a tour!
Yeah there's crime in rural area, there's crime in the city too but more security, it's a tough life and the police have always their hands full, and can be easily corrupted.This adds to the sense of danger that already exist everywhere.
" it can get hard for them to leave their properties"
We don't own a car, we have to leave our property every day, take taxis (small mini-bus transport), and live a life far away from opulence, so we have never been a target in 10 years we 've been living there.
The only time i got into trouble was in Cape Town after a concert I did, i got punched in the face by a bouncer on coke, and while falling down , some dude took my cellphone, I ran after him , he had a gun, I ran away :)
People wit large properties, big cars, House owners, are more the targets of robberies, and I obviously don't condone these types of behaviors but this is how things are in 2018
Of course I would like to tour one day in Africa as well, I have a whole music project regarding that subject actually :) (the track I've sent you is part of it), it is just that I want to visit Africa and travel for other reasons first. When I start to tour it will be in the West because places like Bristol, NY, Toronto, LA and Seattle have a scene that accepts my kind of music, I actually play a variety of genres you can check some demos I have online here to get the idea https://sensei-archers.bandcamp.com/album/demo-loop-2016-2017 maybe if you are on discord we can connect and chat there rather than here, it is easier