I'm always game to recommend David Byrne's "Rei Momo," (http://www.luakabop.com/david_byrne/cmp/reimomo.html) songs with Byrne's slightly eccentric lyrics and with latin beats and arrangements. Since the song titles indicate the beat found within, it's practically a primer for latin rhythms from Bolero to Samba.
I used to have that on tape a million years ago. Pretty good album.
Lately I've been listening heavily to a CD of Scott Joplin pieces, an amalgamation of two albums by the New England Ragtime Ensemble and the Southland Stingers respectively ("The Red Back Book/Elite Syncopations"). My favorites are "The Rag Time Dance" and a sweet non-syncopated piece called "Binks' Waltz", which was apparently composed in honor of somebody's dead baby (bit of a downer, that).
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Date: 2004-01-24 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-24 10:46 pm (UTC)Lately I've been listening heavily to a CD of Scott Joplin pieces, an amalgamation of two albums by the New England Ragtime Ensemble and the Southland Stingers respectively ("The Red Back Book/Elite Syncopations"). My favorites are "The Rag Time Dance" and a sweet non-syncopated piece called "Binks' Waltz", which was apparently composed in honor of somebody's dead baby (bit of a downer, that).