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Duck Baker - Fingerstyle Guitar Music Legend
Duck Baker was born Richard R. Baker IV in Washington, DC in 1949 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. His teenage years were devoted to playing guitar with rock and blues bands before becoming interested in acoustic guitar fingerpicking in local coffeehouses. Ragtime pianist Buck Evans was a major influence on Baker's developing interests, which by the time he moved to San Francisco in 1973 included piano rags, blues, old-time country, Cajun, bluegrass, and New Orleans jazz. This variety inspired the title of his first solo guitar recording "There's Something For Everyone In America" which was released in 1976. During the next four years, Duck recorded several more solo jazz guitar music records including one devoted to swing jazz, one to modern jazz, and one to Celtic tunes while appearing on nine others. He also released a book of fiddle tunes arranged for fingerstyle guitar and toured incessantly throughout America, Canada, Europe, and Australia. He changed addresses almost as frequently finally winding up in Europe for most of the '80s. He returned to San Francisco in 1987 and then moved to Virginia in 1991.
Most of his more recent solo guitar recordings have featured his own compositions - an aspect of his work that has drawn particular praise from other guitarists. Even though Duck Baker's insistence on arranging and performing so many different styles of music on the guitar, from medieval European Christmas carols to avant garde jazz, has made him somewhat difficult for the press to categorize - he certainly has earned the respect of his guitar playing peers! A check list of musicians with whom he has been associated professionally (in performance or on records) would include blues men Charlie Musselwhite and Jerry Ricks, bluegrassers Tim O'Brien and Dan Crary, traditionalists Ali Anderson and Brian MacNeil, new music icon John Zron, rock legend J. J. Cale, and jug band king Jim Kweskin.
Duck Baker has also been a seminal figure and influence in the bringing of traditional Irish music to the fingerstyle acoustic guitar. Duck is one of those rare musicians who doesn't draw upon the repertoire of his chosen instrument for musical raw material, but rather finds ideas in the broader musical stream and then shapes them to the sensibilities of the guitar. From the application of that talent comes his acknowledged success at transcribing and arranging Irish fiddle, pipe, and harp music for the guitar. His memorable, but not widely distributed, 1980 album "Kid On The Mountain" outlined a stylistic approach that eschews any cosmetic prettiness of tone and focuses rather upon the possibilities of stark, open harmonies, and complex interwoven bass lines. That album was the first to introduce to many guitarists in America playable, solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements of some essential Irish tunes, a few of which include "The Blarney Pilgrim," "Morgan Magan" and "The Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside." Though that album is long out of print, many of the landmark fingerstyle guitar arrangements found there have been reissued on various CD collections. Fortunately for aspiring guitarists, Duck has gone on to release numerous guitar tab books and DVD courses that teach his jazz, ragtime, fiddle, and Celtic solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements.
About the Author
Peabody Conservatory trained guitarist Steven Herron helps people succeed at becoming better guitar players. His company ChordMelody.com features an enormous, unique selection of
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Can anyone identify this duck?
it was lingering w/ mallards at a pond in pomona, california I tried to take photos at different angles .. as you can see from one photo it is larger and stands taller than other ducks and has a longer neck. it's mostly black except its head is a bit green and you can see some blue in its wings. it makes really quiet quacks ..the other ducks didn't like him and pretty much avoided him
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any ideas what kind of duck this is? thanks
'it looks like an american black duck' - no it doesn't .. there is one at the pond and it's not the same thing 
As most others have suggested this is some sort of domesticated Mallard. I do not think that it is likely to be a hybrid between two different duck species (such as Mallard and American Black Duck), but it could be the result of a cross between two or more different varieties of domestic Mallard (like crosses between dog breeds these can be very variable).
The site in the link below shows examples of all sorts of domestic Mallards - with the one in your photos perhaps somewhere between the 'Bibbed' type and either 'Black East Indian' or 'Cayuga' type (but it's not easy to be certain of parentage).
http://10000birds.com/manky-mallards-domestic-feral-or-just-plain-odd-mallards.htm
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So within a few months I will have a new Ganga album ready.
As of now its not certain whether or not its going to be an actual album or the smaller sibling called an EP. It all depends how I am going to fit these last couple of tracks together. There are still quite a few openings left to be filled out – or left out.
However one thing is certain. Its going to be a little less electronic and a bit more vocal than "More light please". That album was the most electronic Ganga album, and it was a reaction on the previous two more down tempo and more acoustic album. Already the second album "Dont wake me up", took a more electronic direction than the debut album "I dream about trees" released on Music For Dreams 2005.
This is a normal direction I think, to go the other way once in a while. Unless you are only thinking about staying in your niche and keeping the same audience. This is important of course – keeping people interested, but it should never be the main concern for the artist. That way the content would loose all connections to the origin of the material. The actual material will start to mean less and less, and eventually over time people will notice this and start loosing interest. Just as the artist would do if his label urged him to go in a direction he didn't like.
One obvious advantage of being your own label boss. Downside is that the filter is gone, and you need to reach out to your colleagues or similar artists/friends to get the feedback that you used to get from your label. Anyway, to make a long story short, the new album "Gaia" is a more vocal experience than any of the previous releases from Ganga.
There are several tracks where I provide the vocal in the "old" Ganga style. Meaning a little vocal here and there as an extra spice. One track with a little more singing than less. Nearly a real song and then also one real song… imagine that J Then San Francisco native Scheherazade Stone lays down a beautiful vocal on "This time" and Norwegian Django from Django Novo has contributed with the vocal line on one track also.
Apart from that, old time collaborator Helle Chirholm joins in on a arabic inspired track and Gbatokai Dakinah (fretless bas) are also present on a few tracks.
All together a more slow, more ethnic and more vocal experience than the previous releases. Release is june 1st in all major download shops.
"Relight" new dubby sounds from Dubphonic.
A soft but very breath taking album, an elegant blending with Jamaican flavours, haunting compositions, fluidity and clear light sound quality, their dub fades into electro-ambiant chamanism and becomes a magic sound installation »
From Le Monde to 20 Minutes, from Keyboards Magazine to Telerama, reviews of Dubphonic's "Smoke Signals " (2003) were all over positive. First album of the French trio after a cult 12" for the Chicago based label Guidance Recordings, called Smoke Signals, was entirely instrumental. It soon became a music supervisors favorite and tracks were being picked up for series such as "Six Feet Under " and "Dexter ".After a tour with the Japanese band Audio Active and a handful of concerts, and while their remix of Tosca's "Orozco " was being spun all around the world, the band went back into the studio in 2004.
If inspiration met the rendez-vous, Stefane Goldman (guitars/electronics), Alexis Mauri aka Alexkid (programming & production) and Sylvain Mosca (programming & electronics), they were not fully satisfied with the results and agreed that time would not be an issue. They wanted the best for their second album. Four years in-and-out of the studio later, eleven new compositions were completed and finalised for the fresh new album Relight.
During the deliberatly slow creative process, four of these new pieces naturally evolved into songs with guest vocal performances by Cuban-American Liset Alea (previously heard on Alexkid's second and third album), Euro-American Daniella D'Ambrosio (Nouvelle Vague, Aswefall), Brasilian CÈu (whose new album Varagosa is about to be released in Europe) and English Mau (co-founder of Earthling and several other projects).
The band members plays most of the instruments and and writes most of the repertoire themselves. For certain special moments, they called in brilliant musicians such as Jean-Philippe Rykiel and Rodriguez Jr. on electric piano, Jérémie Poirier-Quinot on flute and Prince Zober on percussions. Their different inputs and the various palette of the guest singers/writers, enriches the bands unique sound while at the same time keeping the cinematic essence of their music, more obvious than ever in tracks like "Nora Sun", "Last Resort Hotel" or the magnificent closing number "Outland".Lala 2.0 – DePhazz and Pit Baumgartner makes some new noise.
This album from Pit Baumgartner finds its inspiration so many places its hard to find out where to begin. The Pit Baumgartner has created a new collection of very sou linspired tracks with many interesting vocal performances and a chopped up form of soul full grooves. Very jazzy stuff – very American actually.
Very old school funky grooves in many of these tracks. Check it out for yourself in this player.
And read what the label writes about the release.
"LaLa 2.0" is the 8th DE PHAZZ album to date, and it showcases a vast amount of international vocalists stemming from the ever expanding musical universe of one of the best selling lounge outfits out there. Of course there's Pat Appleton (GER) and Karl Frierson (USA), alongside Barbara Lahr (GER), Marnie Mans (CAN), Angel Jones (USA), Sandie Wollasch (GER), and Charity Sanders (USA) – they all contribute to a rare data carrier way beyond the ordinary...
"It's just a file, that's what it is." Is it?
Now that's truly a self ironic statement about a song as a cold, nameless file: mp3 data, that is. As opposed to (or even highlighted by) soulful juggling of words... contemporary trains of thoughts in a way. Here's another excerpt (for the headstrong):
„I know you from Baywatch, don' explain it away bitch."
What? Lyrical alphabet soup ranging from "deep" to "cheeky" and back. There's lament ("Duck & Cover") as well as many wrinkles caused by laughing ("Slums Of Monte Carlo"). Social statements ("Fear is my business") followed by conciliating vibes ("Back from where I started"). All framed by those unique, electro-organic sound scapes created by DE PHAZZ head honcho Baumgartner.
„Jazz is the move"? "No Lie"!
"Lala 2.0" is wood from the roots, shaped on the scanner. Well computed terrestial heat. it's "soul" ripped to pieces, and then put together again in a different way... contemporary and organic digitalism. Word up! And so, nothing stays the same. DE PHAZZ "play" music... music version 2.0. It's all uppercut is on here, so go & get your Lala update while supplies last.
Here is some new stuff about a very young producer that came out of nowhere earlier this year. Emancipator is his name – or his artist bame, played his first live show in July 2009, opening for Bonobo at Roseland Theater New York.
Since then, he's toured with Bass nectar, STS9, Pretty Lights, and played at festivals like Trinumeral and Symbiosis, and closed out Sound Tribe Sector 9's late night parties in Denver at the request of the band.
Emancipator self-released his first album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough, at the age of 19 in 2006. His lovely melodies layered over, immaculately-produced beats captivated fans across the internet and across the world.
"Soon It Will Be Cold Enough" was picked up by Japanese producer Nujabes, pressed in Japan and sold 5,000 copies in the first six months. Emancipator landed a Puma sponsorship, gave an interview to Rolling Stone Japan, discovered one of his songs was played at the Beijing Olympics (he is still trying to figure out how that happened) and his song "Shook," a mashup that perfectly mixes Mobb Deep's mighty raps with a Sigur Ros track, became the highest-rated song on Hype Machine's "Best 50 Songs of 2007". It also appeared on Hype Machine as the #2 most popular song in April 2009.
His latest album "Safe In The Steep Cliffs" blends new instrumentation and organic samples with the signature Emancipator style of smooth clean production, silky melodies and addictive drums. Dense layers of choirs, horns, American folk instruments such as banjo and mandolin, violin and some distinct Asian influences make for a playful but refined album. Built out of intricate tracks listeners can enjoy on as many levels as they want. Dance to it, chill out to it, immerse your mind in it. To know more about us you can visit: www.ganga.dk
About the Author
Matt Turner is director of Kurb Promotions (www.kurb.co.nz), a New Zealand based company offering comprehensive and affordable Music Marketing and Music Management services to entertainers and small businesses around the world offering internet marketing packages, video marketing.
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