KURZWEIL UP FROM THE CURB SAMPLE CD ROM NEW

A Percussion Library Featuring Bashiri Johnson

On this CD-ROM for Kurzweil V.A.S.T. Series instruments, you'll find loops, hits, and pickups performed by one of today's busiest, most creative session percussionists. The included instruments range from staples like congas and shakers to unique ethnic, fabricated, and "found" sounds. Bashiri Johnson has added his special magic to recordings by some of music's legendary performers - and with "Up From The Curb" and your Kurzweil synthesizer, to your recordings as well.

The Samples

There are 19 loops on the disc, provided at multiple tempos. These loops were performed entirely by Bashiri, who overdubbed anywhere from four to ten instruments per loop. The loops are presented in multi-track format, with one full mix sample, one sample for each individual track, and several submix samples. These loops are generally one or two bars in length. Each instrument used in the loops also has a set of "hits" - samples recorded separately from the loops. These samples are of various single hit articulations; there are also rolls and short fills. These sets of single hits range in size from very small (2 or 3 samples) to huge (Congas from loop 12 have over 50 samples).

The Instruments

• African Bongo, AKA Can Drum: An African street drum, used for community gathering and festival grooves.
• African Iron: A small curved piece of iron, hit with a metal beater. Usually functions rhythmically as a clave.
• African Rattle: L-shaped, with round cut out pieces of gourd that strike against each other, creating a full-bodied shaker sound.
• Anvil: Not the traditional blacksmith's anvil, this is a metal plumbing pipe struck with a metal beater.
• Awlo: A unique iron instrument, the metallic rattling is produced by 6 small beaters sounding against a bell.
• Bash Bell: A large, cone-shaped iron bell, one of Bashiri's favorites.
• Bull Roar: A traditional South American and Australian aboriginal instrument, constructed by attaching a cord to a bow or chambered plank. The sound is made by twirling the instrument around the player's head.
• Batwa: Not an instrument, but more of a technique. It's the sound produced by alternately blowing over the mouth of a bottle and generating wordless vocalizations.
• Caxixi: (casheshe) This is a rattle found in Africa and Brazil, a woven basket with beads, gravel, or pebbles inside.
• Coil Chime: A 6-inch metal coil, found in an auto junkyard. Bashiri describes it as resembling "a big slinky." Darabuka: A type of North African Dumbek, this is a small, high-pitched drum.
• Dun Dun: An African bass drum, known as the "heartbeat drum."
• Guiro Pipe: A hollow ridged piece of metal tubing, played both by hitting and scraping.
• Hair Drum: A large Central African bass drum; the head is made from hair-covered skin.
• Humanatone Whistle: This is a whistle blown into by the player's nose. Pitch is controlled by opening and closing the vocal cavity.
• Mini Tabla: Like a Tabla...only smaller.
• Mini Talking Drum: See Mini Tabla.
• Ocean Drum: A frame drum, covered on both side and filled with BBs. The player can hit the drum in the traditional manner, or roll the drum to create an "Ocean" sound. Both these techniques are used on the CD.
• Oji: A thin, high-pitched metal Vibraslap, manufactured by a small company called Rhythm.
• Party Favor: A metal New Year's Eve party toy.
• Patum Tubes: These are long plastic tubes, cut to different lengths.
• Satellite Drum: A trippy metal percussion sculpture - made by a company called Epiphany.
• Stomp: The sound of Bashiri stomping on the studio floor.
• Sun Bells: Made by PJ Percussion, these are similar to agogo bells. The sound is produced by shaking.
• Tamb Stick: A stick with tambourine jingles on it.
• Tapon: A Brazilian snare drum.
• Tin Box: A metal box filled with pennies.
• Trash Snare: Thin, cheesy, cheap sounding snare drum.
• Thunder strip: A long sheet of metal, played by hitting or shaking.
  

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