{"id":1899,"date":"2012-11-14T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2012-11-14T22:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:27:58","slug":"im-suggesting-that-you-take-a-whole-hour-and-watch-this-entire-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m suggesting that you take a whole hour and watch this entire video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KtI91wVr6vs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This performance has been been a big part of my life for several years now. \u00a0I got the bootleg many years ago and fell for it right away. \u00a0I had no idea that it was a trio appearance that was about 50% sequenced. I have looked askance at backing tracks and sequenced music when employed by rock bands to enhance their sound without adding (touring with and paying) additional musicians. \u00a0U2, I am looking directly at you right now.<\/p>\n<p>So, until tonight, I had no idea that such tactics had been employed in the transcendant 2002 Trilok Gurtu North Sea Jazz Festival appearance. \u00a0I only had the audio portion and was unaware that the whole show was on youtube.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t be troubled to sit patiently, then just skip ahead to 24:50 and see what happens when tabla master Gurtu steps behind his drum kit. \u00a0Swami\u00a0DRUMS indeed!<\/p>\n<p>But the real show here, even more extraordinary that Trilok&#8217;s other-worldy percussion, is the grace and perfection of Sabine Kabongo&#8217;s vocal performance. \u00a0Her beauty and passion are a huge part of this entire performance, as they have always were <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/mIH9cQhig8M\">in her days with Joe Zawinul<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This performance has been been a big part of my life for several years now. \u00a0I got the bootleg many years ago and fell for it right away. \u00a0I had no idea that it was a trio appearance that was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[270,1428,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}