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© Thomson Reuters 2020.Jazz singer Melody Gardot seeks digital orchestra to beat coronavirus blues
By Geert De Clercq and Yiming Woo PARIS©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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starpunk
She's doing what Peter Gabriel often does. He records musicians playing rhythms and such from around the world and then compiles these various recordings from his studio into songs, and songs into albums - like his own 'Us', the worldbeat compilation 'Big Blue Ball', and other albums.
Toasted Heretic
Appropriating other culture's musical traditions?
Nah, only kidding.
The best music is often borrowed. Look at Jah Wobble's Chinese and Japanese dub albums, Joe Harriott and John Mayers Indo-Jazz, Damon Albarn and the African Express project, David Byrne's love of Brazilian music, Afro-Celt Soundsystem etc.
starpunk
Dick Dale translated Arabic scales to electric guitar to invent the 'surf' sound. George Harrison of the Beatles explored Asian music - especially from India. Rock'n'roll itself began in the USA as a fusion of styles and influences and now it's all over the world in so many styles.
Stevie Wonder said that music is a universal language and he's right.