release - afro celt sound system
- Created by: jessmclellanx
- Created on: 23-03-19 21:45
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- RELEASE
- background information
- fusion of African music, Celtic folk music and electronic dance music
- released in 1999
- features the singer Sinead O'Connor
- structure
- verse form (no choruses)
- based on loops
- intro, verse 1, verse 2, solos, verse 3, build, outro
- instruments
- african
- kora
- talking drum
- djembe
- celtic
- hurdy-gurdy
- uilleann pipes
- bodhran
- fiddle
- whistle
- accordion
- EDM
- synthesisers
- string pad
- soft pad
- bells
- bass
- breath samples
- drum machine
- electric piano
- male and female vocals
- synthesisers
- made from looping ideas
- playing techniques: glissando, ornaments, double stopping, open and closed hi-hat
- synthesizer drone used
- reverb on vocals throughout
- african
- melody
- female and male singer
- vocal melody is repetitive
- melody lines are all short phrases
- solos taken by uilleann pipes, whistle and hurdy gurdy
- vocals use glissando, acciaccatura
- fiddle melody uses double stopping
- female vocal range is only a 6th, male is a 13th
- harmony
- there is a drone on C
- mostly diatonic with some chromatic chords
- some extended chords such as 7ths and 9ths
- slow harmonic rhythm - feels like it stays on the same note for a lot of the piece (common to dance music)
- tonality
- in C minor
- based on modes aeolian and dorian
- rhythm and metre
- 4/4
- lots of repeating ostinatos and riffs
- syncopation used throughout
- repeating rhythms are mostly 2 and 4 bar loops
- triplets and sextuplets used
- accented notes
- semiquavers slightly swung
- texture
- mainly homophonic
- lots of layers of loops
- drop in and out regularly so texture constantly changes
- builds by adding one loop at a time
- overlapping give it a polyphonic feel
- very start is monophonic
- outro is heterophonic
- solo instruments playing the same thing - slight variations
- tempo
- start is in free time
- entry of the bodhran sets a steady tempo
- 100bpm
- background information
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