Best in iPhone entertainment 2008
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- Best in iPhone entertainment 2008
- Here’s a fine nine to round out ‘08
- Music Games for iPhone Give Artists New Spotlight
- Lionel Loueke Fusing Jazz African Sounds
- Hospital’s new therapy room rocks
Best in iPhone entertainment 2008
CNET News CA
You can choose from electricacoustic classical electric guitar muted guitar bass and ukulele. Your effects include distortion delay and chorus and any combinationof those to find the perfect sound. With added details like the abilityto “hammer-on” notes switch to left-handed guitar and the ability toplay along with your iPod’s music library this app is a must-have forguitarists even if it’s just for the gimmick of having a workingauthentic-sounding guitar on your iPhone. If the guitar simulator is a little too hard to play (and it doestake some creative hand positions) try. 99) which lets you choose and press chord letters to strum chords easily. You can even set up and save songs so your chords are ready to go when you want to play.
Here’s a fine nine to round out ‘08
Variety CA
(Two of them actually secured Grammy nominations). Nominated for the traditional world music Grammy Bhattacharya’s latest collection of Indian slide guitar music has far-shorter songs than his other work which allows him to aerate the music and expand the range of his ragas far beyond Sufi traditions. Technically staggering the instrumentals of “Calcutta Chronicles” are highly personal an emotional dialogue between Bhattacharya and his brother tablaist Subhasis Bhattacharya. James Blackshaw “Litany of Echoes” (Tompkins Square). With occasional accompaniment on bowed instruments Blackshaw 27 has elevated the sense of composition in his stunning pieces adding conceptual depth and a connective tissue to composers such as Steve Reich and Erik Satie.
Music Games for iPhone Give Artists New Spotlight
New York Times United States
“We absolutely feel these games could be the next big Rock Band or Guitar Hero” said Cynthia Sexton a vice president at EMI Music worldwide. Sexton said she viewed the expansion into games and other outlets as a natural evolution of the music industry though that revelation was not necessarily an easy one. “For a moment we hid our heads in the sand and thought this was the end” she said. “But it’s not.
Lionel Loueke Fusing Jazz African Sounds
NPR
And when he left West Africa to study jazz he took with him the music of the region. Loueke has since forged a unique sound captured on a new CD called Karibu his highest-profile release to date. Loueke recently brought his guitar to NPR’s New York bureau to demonstrate his original style with a solo performance. “I grew up listening to traditional music from Benin and I was playing percussion too around 9 or 11 until 17 pretty much” Loueke says. “My older brother was playing guitar so I started playing guitar when I was 17.
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Hospital’s new therapy room rocks
Sarasota Herald-Tribune FL
Johnson and Luongo persuaded a few shy former patients on hand for the event to test the room’s electronic drum kit. “Joining them on guitar were Paul Duffy musician and owner of Sarasota bar The Irish Rover and neurosurgeon Dr. Jim Schumacher another backer of music therapy. “Music is the place that keeps us safe. It’s the language we all understand” Schumacher said. Playing bass was Riverview High School student Matt Strickland who wished the room had existed when he was hospitalized with meningitis at age 9.
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