Blog: Star Maker Machine

Yoruba musicians with talking drums I've been waiting a long time for the right theme, so I could share some world music with everyone. Now, the time has come. In western music, notes are layered with other notes to form harmony. Over time, we have developed counter melodies and other levels of complexity in our harmony techniques. In Western Africa, the native music features simple melodies and almost no harmony at all. But the rhythm is quite another matter. Where we layer notes and melodic lines, the musicians of western Africa layer rhythms. Many [...]

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