Bill Womack nicely summarizes the new Tongass release on his blog. Drop by and take a look. It’s spectactular!
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Soundings guest appearance with Nomad
Soundings will appear at a concert by Nomad, the world music duo with guitarist Michael Waters (from Victoria, BC) and Kinobe (from Uganda) who is a wizard on many African instruments including kora, adungu, and kalimba.
Soundings will be singing with Nomad on four pieces, including the well-known song “Kothbiro”, composed by Kenyan singer Ayub Ogada. Also we will be performing a new setting of “God Bless the Rain” by Soundings director Denis Donnelly, a unique rendering of a Rumi-like mystical poem by poet Gregory Orr, and a brand new version of the popular past Soundings number “Jabula Jesu”. In all these we will be collaborating with Nomad, who will be backing us up and alternating leads with us. It’ll be fun!
Samples of Nomad’s music can be found here.
Saturday, June 27, 8:00 pm at Gordon Head United Church, 4201 Tyndall. Tickets $15 at Lyle’s Place in Victoria, BC, and at the door (if not sold out).
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
New speakers
As I note in my audio/video system update I’ve been using the landlady’s speakers for some time. Once I knew what my new condo would be like (small), I was ready to buy speakers. I decided on an oddball stereo pair, not very common, but they sounded the best of everything I listened to under $2,000, except for the very low end, which is missing (Response: 55Hz – 50kHz). I bought a pair of JVC SX-WD5’s. The clarity is stunning, and using the old Technic’s as rears works fine. When I move, I’ll look for some inexpensive rears.
I don’t plan on getting a centre speaker or subwoofer or “presence” speakers. So my 7.1 receiver will be driving 4.0. Even for surround sound movies, it sounds great. I’m just missing that deep rumble that probably wouldn’t go down well in a condo …
