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    Celtic scale

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    Thanks schism... yes... some tracks in The Lone Deranger album are Celtic'ish sounding.

     

    And btw I got this answer from one guy...

     

    Celtic music makes a lot of use of the mixolydian and dorian modes and pentatonic scales. Another one of the elements of Celtic music is the use of microtonal bends as found in blues and Arabic music e.g.if I was playing a tune that used C Mixolydian on acoustic guitar I would bend the the flatted 7th so that it would give a sound between the flatted 7th and the major 7th. Celtic music is highly ornamented, it uses a lot of slurs, bends and grace notes if you look at pieces transcribed for the guitar you invariably see lots of very fast hammer ons and pull offs and lots of slides and bends. Guitarists who play Celtic music often tune their guitars to DADGAD which is also known as G modal.

    Shpongle - Tales Of The Inexpressible

    in 2001

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    Shpongle does not need an introduction, all who has listened to any of their

    material know these artists are great. This album is quite different than the

    last, as Simon says; more world music. You really hear that this duo got

    enormous inspiration and tallent, to produce such different styles with cheer

    quality. T1: spanish guitar melodies, nutty raja voice samples, beautiful

    drums, and Simons (current) girlfriend's beautiful voice, the unimitable

    twisted way offcource. T2: Name inspired from J.Hendrix unforgettable guitar

    solo named Star Spangled Banner (hendrix talking sample in intro), chill-out

    at the beginning; slow tempo, lovely bassline, wonderfull instruments & voice

    samples (natural & robotic a'la DMT) , around 4mins it breaks up and develops

    to a hard hitting 4/4 kick witch drives harder & harder, to at the end slow

    down & break up... T3: starting w/ recreated dmt crackling noise (well no, but

    a recreated feeling through sound =), Terrence McKenna speaks about the DMT

    trip (his samples also aplied in middle & end), this later with beautiful

    vocals great melodies, twisted instrument & drumming, raja comes in w/ his

    soothing flute in the later half of the song. T4: intro w/ strange

    instruments, wierd reverb to be followed by lovely voice samples, flute

    playing, great drums, piano at the side, this is a chill-out & feel good track

    =). T5: Again with the wierd reverb (GRM Tools!!) in the intro, ring-mods are

    used here to create a surreal/demented sound to the flute =), i don't need to

    say more than this is a psycedelic latino track with simon & raj twist!,

    great. T6: intro of outdoor nature sounds w/ a little mystical touch,

    transforms into a pre concerto feeling (you know it when you hear it =), then

    the beat starts, deep bass, incredible drums here, chill melodies, ring

    modulated flute here too, sound sooo insanely good when layered w/ sweepy

    synth patch, psycho voice samples, tempo change @ 5:50 to a fast rising beat

    that later breaks up into oblibion =)). T7: Now here comes a real chill track,

    so soft and gentle, beautiful singing from simons girlfriend!!, soothing

    melodies & instruments, flute (in the middle & end), relax, turn you mind

    off!. T7: the longest track on this CD, here blending lots of genres, relaxing

    intro with 'watery' guitar melodies, slowly build up, great instruments here,

    arabic atmosphere builds up later in the track, operetic singing & arabic

    voice samples, strings, ahh wonderful, gets quite a tempo in the end, Bolero

    style =) (although not that linear build), lots of energy @ the end blowing up

    and... T:8 soft flute playing with only atmospherical pads, melodic, what a

    great ending of the CD. Now for obvious task; to compare it to their first

    album, well you can't =), they are to different. I would say that the last

    album had a more 'mystical' feeling to it though, but that does not make it

    better... I would give it 9,8/10 (preserving me for more shpongle releases).

    BUY IT IF YOU ENJOY MUSIC!!!!

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