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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:09:06 -0800
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[idm] Elephant Music
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From "News of the Weird .674" " The debut CD from the Thai Elephant Orchestra (Lampang, Thailand) was scheduled for December release, featuring six pachyderm prodigies playing crude versions of traditional instruments (drum, gong, bass, xylophone) and recorded intact, without overdubbing, to create music that (in the words of a New York Times writer) "strike(s) some Western listeners as haunting, others as monotonous." The CD's American producers, pointing to much academic research on elephants' natural musical abilities, said they plan a second album ("easy-listening," engineered, they said, to make it more accessible to a wider audience). " hmmmm..... Shimone http://www.staticbeats.com Electronic Music For The Mind