Archive for October, 2008

New track with Daniel Masson

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I went to Paris with my girlfriend this summer and visited Daniel Masson in his country house just outside of Paris. We were supposed to be working together on another project, but we ended up starting a new collaboration instead.

Out of this visit now emerges a new track called “Synchronize me”.

 A little song about … well yes synchronization of the small and the big. The inside and the outside playing together in its own crazy way. The universe is toying with us and we pretend we don’t know – we do not want to know. Its really a love song – sort of anyway.

Its an electronic track, but with many acoustic elements in it still. I think its appropriate to say thats its an electronic production with many acoustic instruments.

Influences are most definitely Pink Floyd, but it has a soft electronic sound to it – clean chill out/downbet (no its not a decease) you could call it. As opposed to dubby and dirty.

Anyway its a new collaboration between Daniel Masson and I, and we call it  - not so surprisingly – “Ganga and Daniel Masson”. More tracks to come for sure, but this one track is a good start I think.

Its a downbeat, chill out track , but thats more referring to the sound and the mood really, because its 120 bpm, so its not the classic chill tempo.

 Its a chill out track reaching back for some old bass and guitar stuff played by Daniel Mason and messed up one late night/early morning between the two of us in his studio. He played it at the occasion I should point out.

Production has been under way for quite some time, but now its here. It has arrived from that hidden place in the universe from where these things emerge. Or maybe its just from within  our brains or both our brains or maybe it just comes from the meeting of two personalities in one output…who knows?

 I am looking forward to see where the next tracks are going. In the meantime you can listen to the track in my player on www.myspace.com/gangalounge and also on www.ilike.com/artist/ganga

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

 

www.ganga.dk

www.myspace.com/gangalounge

www.gangamusic.info

www.youtube.com/gangalounge

www.flincmusic.com

 

 

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New Claire Ross-Brown video by Shaky Gonzales

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Some good news now about the Claire Ross-Brown project that Ganga produced with Berry Sode.

The second video from Claire Ross-Browns debut album “Complexity” is finally finished.

It has taken a bunch of people a whole lot of time, so I guess they deserve a big “THANK YOU”. The amount of work put into this is amazing and the result for this kind of budget production is also very good I think.

 The director Shaky Gonzales has put together an intriguing little story that puts Claire in the lead role as an assassin equipped with guns, lambourghinis and exceptional fighting skills. “Dont get too close”

Ofcourse its a James Bond like cliche to do just that, but the track in itself is like this, so I think its an obvious thing to do.

It premiered  yesterday on ekstrabladet .

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

 

 

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Look in new places for quality

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

The other night we had release party for the new album with Claire Ross-Brown (“Complexity”). She is a danish/british singer whose album I produced together with Berry Sode. I have written about it before.

At the release we performed a few tracks live, and its always a great deal of work to prepare for that, so the day after the release I was a little bit tired.

However I had been confident enough to say yes to another one of my film gigs, where I improvise the score to a silent movie I have never seen before (or maybe seen once). This time I had never seen it before.

Its called “Safety Last” and its one of these old silent classic slapstics, where some of the action takes place in frightening heights on the outside of a skyscraper – I have NO idea where they got the guts from to do this – its really scaring to look at. And apparently its not just special tricks or similar – they really did this climbing around in 20 stories height.

Anyway, it proved to be a lot of hard work to get it together – or so it seemed in my head at least.

It wasn’t until the last half of the film I felt confident that I was making some kind of music that fitted the scenes. At some point I felt like “This is the last time I do this”. Not satisfying at all – I need to like what I am doing – especially when the pay is not fabulous.

My point is, that even though I had this feeling during the show, people approached me afterwards and asked where they could get this music and how. And expressed hat they loved the whole thing.

So a lot of time don’t trust only yourself – ask some outsider for advice – they can teach you something you didn’t know you could learn. Hmmm.. makes sense?

I think so – we need to look elsewhere  sometimes.

Maybe the lesson is that even though your performance does not satisfy your own expectations, there may well be something in it that triggers an emotion or two in the audience.

 

chill out, downbeat artist Ganga

 

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

 

www.ganga.dk

www.gangamusicinfo

www.myspace.com/gangalounge

www.youtube.com/gangalounge

www.flincmusic.com

 

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Not everyone is into music

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I was approached the other day by a guy who obviously was interested in music, but just wasnt used to listening to the kind of sound I make. His questions in regard to my music was a real eyeopener to me.
It should be obvious to everyone, but sometimes as a musician/producer/composer its easy to forget that not everyone can understand what is up and down in regards to what you do.
Its an eyeopener really, to meet someone whom you have to explain everything to. Right from the bottom. Right back from where ambient comes from and what it has evolved into and all that. All the way back to Brian Eno and his first ambient  excursions. The history so to say, of what you do and where you come from.
That’s one part of it. That’s like explaining taxes or something to kids. Quite easy really, if you are a little creative.
The other part is the music in itself. This guy was used to listening to old rocknroll and he didn’t really understand was I was doing – he didn’t get the more ambient side of my tracks – the modal stuff, that only plays in one key and doesn’t modulate in a traditional tonal way.
This was harder to explain to him. I guess I really couldn’t take the explanation any further than the border where intellect meets sensation. I think the point here is that he didn’t really like it – it didn’t meet hi in known territory or he wasn’t open for this kind of sensation or something. Maybe also he was the kind of guy who needs to understand things before he can enjoy, maybe he just will never like it. I don’t know.
But he was curious, and that is a good place to start.Then things can develop from there.
<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

www.myspace.com/gangalounge
www.youtube.com/gangalounge
www.ganga.dk
www.flincmusic.com
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