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Botswana Waltz

from bamboo dynasty by Richard Brookens Jazz

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The Dizi (Chinese bamboo flute) is featured here along with vocalist Nidky Yarling. A piece that developed from my experiments with Palindromic time signatures, ultimately counting it in quarter notes grouped in a pattern of 4+3+3+4. In the middle of the piece we pull off a little slight of hand and taking the dotted quarter note from the original tempo and make it a triplet where the triplet becomes the new pulse, staying with the 4+3+3+4 grouping. Theoretically (hey, why not?) you could think of it also as 14x3/8 or 56/8 but that gets very heavy to carry very quickly so let’s not dwell on that. A low pitched set of Tablas comes in to establish the new feel and Nicky Yarling steps up to improvise (scat) a great vocal solo. Soon, the Dizi returns and the piece also returns to the original feel.

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from bamboo dynasty, released June 8, 2019
Richard Brookens - Dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), Rain Stick, Water, Bells, Synthesizer Sequencing

Joe Zeytoonian - Dumbek, Kaita with Brushes

Tom Lee - Udu (African Clay Pot), Djembe,

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Richard Brookens Jazz Miami, Florida

Richard is an arranger/composer and multi-instrumentalist performing on saxophones (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone), flutes (C and Alto), and clarinets (Bb and Bass), Tabla drums (from India), Udu (Clay Pots), Native American Indian Flutes, and bamboo flutes from India (Bansuri) and China (Dizi). ... more

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