From: "Gary D Chance"
To: "BBC News Channel"; "BBC Radio3 World on 3"
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:54 PM
Subject: Green manifesto against a backdrop of yellow fields. Brown, tie less, has loosened up to up tempo Labour's campaign. Here's some added "up tempo" aka "Trance Music."
After yesterday's Elvis impersonator singing about his not getting anything right ("Wonder of You") and talking all the time without acting (dithering "A Little Less Conversation" by Mac Davis), a tie less Gordon Brown looking like he's exhausted and at the end of his rope came on against that yellow background once again.
This parliamentary system with its "Presidential" style electioneering where voters only vote for their constituency legislator is an excellent example of a third millennium "Broken Britain" that has not been repaired appearing to be heading for more calamity.
Here's more campaign songs for Labour which they can exploit as "Trance Music":
"Little Darlin' " - The Diamonds ("I was wronga . . ."
The above is the original 1957 recording of "Little Darlin' " set against the background of the film "American Graffiti."
Here's The Diamonds later on (much later) performing their immortal song in the same impeccable way:
"Hey, Bo Diddley" and "Bo Diddley" - Bo Diddley ("Bo Diddley bought baby a diamond ring . . .)
These two are most representative of "Trance Music" that is the foundation of Rock 'n' Roll I can recall. I've included them because there is no notion of discrimination at all here with this African based beat driven music. The Diamonds are a white group, and Bo Diddley is in a class by
himself.
You've got to watch the musicians and audiences as well as the performers. People of all kinds get into the music for what is an indescribable up beat and up tempo feeling that produces movement.
I came across this notion of "Trance Music" thanks to Mary Ann Kennedy while listening to her on "World on 3" on BBC Radio3 featuring live sessions with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara from their album "Trance Sessions."
In the interview portion they made reference to "Trance Music" forming the foundation of Rock 'n' Roll's beat that came from Africa to North America finding its way out in this music above.
Justin Adams "has developed a guitar sound and style influenced equally by American blues and African traditions. They see their Trance Sessions as having 'an African sense of time and structure' - musical ideas which evolve slowly, unfettered by the time restrictions of the classic pop record format."
Although the songs above from late 1950s Rock 'n' Roll icons do fit into the tight Rock 'n' Roll pop structure, they still have that power to pick up, carry and drive with a beat that could go on and on which happens with repeated listening. One feels all the musical instruments' sound variations rather than listening explicitly to the lyrics. These songs do create a trance effect each time they're heard, and movement is irresistible
One of my favourite films captured the essence of what Justin Adams describes about 'an African sense of time and structure':
"Chocolat" released May 1989 in US
Claire Denis Director & Writer
"A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon."
At the end of the film a band is playing on and on endlessly a simple, repetitive music and beat that could go on forever as far as I was concerned. The whole film had drawn me into a sort of transformation to the African experience which at the end was reflected by this "Trance Music" providing a whole sense of feeling about Africa that this film maker had successfully recreated with her magnificent film. She journeyed back to an Africa she had known as a child and successfully brought us along with her by this film.
Gary
