Hey, Sanaz, I haven't seen or heard from you of late on Fuzz [since our PM exchange a while ago]. To get you guys going I repost some dated, but still apt, notes about your work to get the Zaman 8 buzz going again and to "poke" you. Cheers, TCC
Jul 06, 11:36 pm TheCapitalClinic said [re Joe Shockley's review of Zaman 8]:
My O' My. It's Friday night, and I have about a quarter of a large bottle of nice dry sake in me to marinate the great sashimi I just had at a "secret place" that I can't tell you about.
To my surprise, when I returned to get my evening "Fuzz fix" before calling it a night, I come across Joe Shockley's brutally honest and discerning review of the saturated world music scene based on his experience, and Zaman 8's place as a stand-out exception in this too-often technologically compromised genre.
This prompted me to launch my Zaman 8 playlist again to hear what Joe hears and what I may have missed before. Sure enough, there is layer upon layer of syncopated East/West complexity here, a little bit of Eastern atonality to blend with Western harmonics.
Nice. And, Joe, I hear the adventure, but not the danger in the Zaman 8 world [check out the Nux Vomica's 1991 video if you want to hear danger] tho' I would concede that it is "dangerous" everytime you put your work at risk by trying to tweek the conventional.
Semantics aside, Zaman 8 is nothing but cool and everything that world music synthesizers failed to deliver before. I appreciate your take on this over-produced sector and I find great comfort in being in the same space with a hardened, but knowledgeable, cynic as far as Zaman 8 goes.
Jul 06, 11:36 pm TheCapitalClinic said [re Joe Shockley's review of Zaman 8]:
My O' My. It's Friday night, and I have about a quarter of a large bottle of nice dry sake in me to marinate the great sashimi I just had at a "secret place" that I can't tell you about.
To my surprise, when I returned to get my evening "Fuzz fix" before calling it a night, I come across Joe Shockley's brutally honest and discerning review of the saturated world music scene based on his experience, and Zaman 8's place as a stand-out exception in this too-often technologically compromised genre.
This prompted me to launch my Zaman 8 playlist again to hear what Joe hears and what I may have missed before. Sure enough, there is layer upon layer of syncopated East/West complexity here, a little bit of Eastern atonality to blend with Western harmonics.
Nice. And, Joe, I hear the adventure, but not the danger in the Zaman 8 world [check out the Nux Vomica's 1991 video if you want to hear danger] tho' I would concede that it is "dangerous" everytime you put your work at risk by trying to tweek the conventional.
Semantics aside, Zaman 8 is nothing but cool and everything that world music synthesizers failed to deliver before. I appreciate your take on this over-produced sector and I find great comfort in being in the same space with a hardened, but knowledgeable, cynic as far as Zaman 8 goes.