JINJER - Pisces (Live Session) 7/8, 12/8

In Cyril Scott's book 'Music Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages' he discusses the roll of dissonance and its esoteric use. He explains: "It is fact that intense and continued passional emotions especially mob-emotions, create a variety of thought-forms in the lower of the unseen planes, and that these thought-forms endure for a number of years, until destroyed by some specific agency." (p135)

Scott goes on to explain, "For it is an occult musical fact that discord (used in its moral sense) can alone be destroyed by discord, the reason for this being that the vibrations of intrinsically beautiful music are too rarefied to touch the comparatively coarse vibrations of all that pertains to a much lower plane. No more that a mass of slime in a stagnant pool can be affected by the blue haze of a summer's morn, can those turgid thought-forms be affected by the strains of purely concordant music." (p136)

All music has its place and purpose, and I can see that part of Jinjer's purpose is divine. Whether you, they or anyone else can see it, I do believe Jinjer is one of these specific agencies. A specific prescription is needed and they are one of the remedies, clearing up a certain matrix type of lurking dark energy. Can't put my finger on exactly what kind but, I can see the dense miasmic vapor moving in a swirl being lured by her voice, then shocked out of this reality. Most true purposes are hidden... anyways...

Jinjer is from the Ukraine and therefore by default have odd meter in their blood. This is one of my favorites from them which uses 7/8 in the verse, 12/8 chorus and various triple meters variations and 7/8 through out.

Break up the Four,
BetZe13

Obsessing 7 with Orange Goblin - Hot Magic, Red Planet

Here's a little 7 diddy tucked in some stoner metal from the UK. This is hard to find in this genre... perhaps they are too busy experimenting with the fuzz sounds. Of course I wish there were a whole lot more metric oddness in this realm, but this is a good example of the possibilities. In this song they use 7/8 in the pre-verse and 4/4 the rest of the song. This is a neat trick that some writers use to contrast sections. Since this genre likes to take us into other realms, why not into the numeric dimensions...

Orange Goblin - Hot Magic, Red Planet 4/4, 7/8

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Obsessing 7 with Moondog - My Tiny Butterfly

Celebrating 7/8 with Moondog. I do believe he had direct contact with all the dimensions - here is one in the seventh.


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Still Obsessing 7: New Playlist 7-8 to 7-15-12 all 7s

New 7s this week on Odd Time Obsessed Radio
Tracks from Don Ellis Orchestra - Pieces of Eight
Meshuggah, Metallica, Dijeridu Drone, Bulgarian, Moondog, Porcupine Tree, Ozric Tentacles, OSI, the Flowbots, the Fallen, Radiohead, TypeA, Sting, less, fred and more.

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Obsessing 7 with the Don Ellis Orchestra - Beat Me Daddy, Seven to the Bar

Does it get any cooler than this... Experimental Ellis and his orchestra, performing boogie woogie in 7 with three bass players, two drummers a conga player, 5 trumpets, one quarter-tone trumpet, 8 more horns and a piano/organ player? Perhaps it does... ... but have yet to see. Mr. Ellis states that it is in 7/8 but I hear it as 7/4. But who am I to argue with the metric maestro. Anyways, this song really swings the 7, grooves that beat 7 to the bar.

Don Ellis Orchestra - Beat Me Daddy 7 Beats to the Bar - 7/4


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7-1 to 7-7-12: Obsessing 7 this week and all month

This is the month for obsessing 7 - 7/4, 7/8, 7/16... Starting off with variations of this rotation and more to come...

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50 Foot Hose – Rose - 4/4, 7/4
Alice in Chains - Them Bones - 7/8, 4/4
BetZe - MIDI Treat - 11/8, 7/8, 3/8, 5/8
BetZe - See Van - 7/4
Bitches Brew - Bitches Brew - 5/8, 7/8, 5/4, 7/4
Boullt, Lindsey - Aurora’s Aura - 7/4, 9/4, 5/16, 9/16
Boullt, Lindsey - Cleopatra’s Third Eye - 7/8, 4/4, 7/4, 6/4, 6/8, 9/8, 15/8, 10/8
Boullt, Lindsey - Moving Panvishnu - 7/8
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline - 7/4
Brubeck, Dave Quartet - Unsquare Dance - 7/4
Can - One More Night - 7/4
Captain Beyond - Mesmerization Eclipse - 7/4, 4/4, 11/4
Congreso - Vamos Andando Mi Amigo - 7/4, 4/4
Crimson Glory - In Dark Places - 7/4, 4/4
Devo - Jocko Homo [Booji Boy Version] - 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4
Dillinger Escape Plan - Party Smasher - 8/4, 4/4, 7/16
Don Ellis - Barnum’s Revenge - 7/4
Don Ellis – Orientation - 7/8, 9/8
Ekova - A Soul’s Delight - 7/4
Eskimo – Raven - 4/4, 7/8
Fallen, The - From Fragile to Strength - 7/4, 4/4
Flobots - Rhythm Method - 7/8, 9/8, 3/8
fred - Mucous Music - 9/8, 7/8, 4/4
fred – Mantra - 7/4, 6/4, 4/4
Free Design – Bubbles - 7/8, 4/4
Fu Manchu - Pick-Up Summer - 7/4, 4/4
Genesis - Dance on the Volcano - 7/8
Gentle Giant - Black Cat - 7/4
Hank Levy - Pete Is A Four-Letter Word - 7/2
Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters 6/8 – 7/8 - 6/8, 7/8
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic(Part II) - 5/4, 7/4, 9/4 + +
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair - 6/8, 7/8, 8/8
King Diamond - Lucy Forever - 7/4 solo
Lamb – Merge - 4/4, 7/4
Lamb of God - A Warning - 7/4
Lamb of God - In the Absence of the Sacred - 7/4, 6/4, 9/4, 4/4
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean - 4/4, 7/8
Levy, Hank - Bop City Revisited - 7/4
Lords, Traci - Good n Evil - 7/8
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Be Happy - 7/4
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Cosmic Strut - 7/4
Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP - 3/4, 2/4, 7/4
Melvins - Resolve (New and Improved) - 5/4, 4/4, 7/4
Meshuggah – Ritual - 7/4, 7/8, 6/8, 8/8
Metallica – Blackened - 7/8, 9/8, 6/4, 4/4, 7/4
Michael Karwowski - Is This All There Is? - 7/8, 9/8
Moondog - My Tiny Butterfly - 7/8
Moondog - Voice of Spring - 7/8
National Health – Pleaides - 4/4, 5/4, 7/4 +
Nosfertu – Highway - 5/8, 7/8, 9/4, 7/4, 4/4
Opeth - Hours of Wealth - 7/8, 4/4
Opeth – Windowpane - 7/4
Orange Goblin - Hot Magic, Red Planet - 4/4, 7/8
OSI – Better - 4/4, 7/8
Ozric Tentacles – Myriapod - 4/4, 7/8
Pink Floyd – Money - 7/4, 4/4
Police, The – Mother - 7/4
Porcupine Tree - So Called Friend - 7/8
Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak - 7/4, 4/4
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing - 7/4, 4/4
Prong - Beg To Differ - 6/4, 5/4, 7/8
Quercus - Moonlight Mardigras - 7/4
Radiohead - Paranoid Android - 7/8, 8/8
Radiohead – 2+2=5 - 7/8, 4/4
Rush – Driven - 6/8, 7/8
Ryan Rapsys – Pseudocyo - 4/4, 5/4, 9/8, ¾, 11/8, 7/8
Say Bok Gwai - Yellow 5 - 7/8, 4/4
Self - Lucid Anne - 7/8
Setzer, Brian - Everybody is Up To Something - 7/4, 4/4
Solitude Aeternus - Midnight Dreams - 6/4, 5/4, 7/4
Soundgarden – Outshined - 7/4, 4/4
Spyra - Blue Daffodil - 7/8
Spyra - Sons & Daughters - 7/8
Sting - Like a Beautiful Smile - 7/8, 8/8
Sting - Love is Stronger Than Justice - 7/4, 4/4
Sting - Straight to My Heart - 7/8
Symphony X - Set the World On Fire - 4/4, 7/4, 9/4, 14/4
Symphony X - The Sacrifice - 7/8, 8/8, 4/4, 3/8, 6/8
Symphony X - The Walls of Babylon - 4/4, 6/4, 8/8, 6/8, 14/8, 7/4
Symphony X – Domination - 4/4, 7/4, 5/4
Symphony X – Seven - 4/4, (7/8 + 6/8), 7/4, 8/4, (7/8 + 8/8)
Tesla - Edison’s Medicine - 4/4, 7/4
Tool – Schism - 5/4, 13/8, 12/8, 15/8, 9/8, 10/8, 6/8 ,6/4, 14/8, 7/4
Ween - Even If You Don’t - 7/4, 4/4
Wild Turkey - 12 Streets of Cobbled Black - 7/4, 4/4
William Ackerman - Brother A Teaches 7 - 7/8
Woody Pak feat. Prime – Hyped - 7/8

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Derek Sherinian - Oceana

Okay I am just gonna call this guy Derek Sevenian...

Well in case you don't know who this cat is (ehemmmm which I didn't until my frenchy oddmeterite, David Taugis clued me in on this), he is a elite rock pro keyboardist, that's played with so and so and you know who...

Hey and this is his 7th solo album... coincidence?

Check out the tracks..

5 Elements - yup you guessed it... 5/4
Mercury 7 - you are so smart... 7/8
Mulholland - 7/4, 15/8(I think)
Euphoria - 6/4, 4/4
Ghost Runner - (thought it was a Eye of the Tiger cover at first) 4/4
El Camino Diablo - 7/8, 4/4
I heard that - 4/4
Seven Sins - no not again... 7/8
Oceana - 4/4

If you really, really want to learn how to play in 7 - listen to this album, play/shred along, you won't be bored. This would make an extremely effective Music Minus One (instrumental karaoke) CD. The recording is pristine, lots of layers to be interested in as you are locking in the varying grooves and along with all melodic keyboards and guitar noodling the bass is loud and clear and most beautiful sounding.

Shred with Sevenian and you will be a ProInSeven.

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BetZe Thirteensky
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Y'all like 7-8 eh?

And the winner is...

Yup, 7-8 it is... Is it that circular feeling you get when you play it or the skipped ahead to something better OCD feeling that gets ya? or maybe its because its July or you still have that Traci Lords song in your head... or something else totally different... oh do tell

Haha Thank you everyone for voting... and perhaps next time I will have a cool prize.

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Celebrate 7-8 with Traci Lords

Happy 7/8!

One of my favorite songs totally in 7/8 is titled "Good N Evil" on Traci Lords "1000 Fires" electronica CD. Here is a sample of the whole album and this oddness is located 1:00 - 1:27.

Cool CD cover eh?

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Jeff Beck - A Blast From the East

What Jeff Beck playing odd meters? Just when I though he would never do a thing to win my heart, or get off my nerves, Gijs Verhijke, an astute odd meter listener, helped to change my disdain. He alerted me to a Beck oddmeterism 'Blast From the East' that he actually did not write (Tony Hymas did), but grooves it. Come to find out, he has some other ones too that go out of four, but that is for a different discussion.

This is what Gijs had to say:

"Spotted this one on his live DVD (live @ Ronnie Scott). If you ask me it's one bar of 7/8, two bars of 8/8 and then one bar of 7/8 again. Or you could argue that it's 15/8 alternatively but it clearly alternates between 7/8 and 8/8 if you ask me."

Well thank you Mr. Beck for chosing to playing this number, Tony Hymas for writing it, Jennifer Batten for cool effects and technique and the taken for granted rhythm section for making this groove appear to be easy to play.

But more importantly, thank you Gijs for spotting this one for us, I am grooving on it and I do believe you are totally correct on your 7/8 8/8 hypothosis.



Keep spottin' the odd ones for us,

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Danish Pop in 7

Here’s something new for you,
(well it was new for me)
Perler fra Svin
(what? – Danish for Pearls from Swine)

I’m a sucker for any odd meter, so when the genre of Danish Pop was introduced, I immediately thought oh no sticky sweet (I prefer darkness). But when I had a listen to these fellows, I really enjoyed it. They have a great authenticity and originality about them, even though I don’t really know what they are saying. But, Jakob Johansen (gotta love that name), guitarist, song-writer whose project this kindly clued me in on the lyrical meanings.

Vaegelsind – 7/4 is about being fickle, unbalanced, wanting everything and not being able to choose.

Morgen med Sara – 7/4, 4/4 “Morning with Sara” about an ex-girly and longing for something you don’t know what it is or someone you don’t know who is or where to find.

I think that Jakob has reached his ambition of “making music that is rhythmically ambitious and lyrically profound while remaining easily accessible, melodic and catchy”. He lives in Denmark, studying journalism and has been writing pop tunes for the past 7 years. And as he told me that he discovered what a time signature was 5 years ago and since then has become more and more obsessed with odd meters. Now that’s my kind of musician. I look forward to his future odd creations (13/8 hint hint).

Have a listen – and of course they will be streaming on the Odd Time Obsessed broadcast.

BandBase.dk/PerlerfraSvin

(The site is in Danish, so just click the play button)

Holder sig Aparte,
-BetZe

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Rap in 7!!

Alright!!! Rap in 7! Where have you been all my life?? Check out this video by Woody Pak with Prime - I hope this is a trend! They make 7 so sound natural - hint hint it is... and 13 is next... plus ck out the badass bass..... This is so exciting I can't stand it!



Foreva ODD,
-B
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