Bossa Nova

Its only recently that I have started to realize that rhythm can be more important than notes in music. To some, rhythm is everything in music, but it was not as important to me. I mean, you can't imagine music out of rhythm, but I didn't understand how a certain rhythm would be more important than patterns of notes. It could be so because I am not so much of a dance person, or it could be just my ignorance to think that there is very little of creative ability in rhythms or that rhythms are only meant to accompany the rise and fall of notes.

It is funny indeed that I overlooked rhythm despite being from the country of 'tabla'. It could also be that I didn't even realize that rhythm-instruments are different because of tabla being a harmonic instrument too, unlike drums. Either way, I have discovered that rhythms are more than what inspires / provokes us to get on the dance floor. There is surely a lot of creativity that goes in rhythm.

Western music has discovered it twice or more i guess, first time playing with bossa-nova and the second time, dancing on hip-hop. Me, i would just stick to bossa nova for now; I think bossa nova is the best exhibition of rhythms. With French lyrics, I think some of the best pieces of what we know of music has been created on bossa nova.

(Recently I discovered bands like momotte, which are reliving the 60s in some way)

Unbelievable...

I linger between metal and classical while listening to online radio, quite extreme choices one would think, but that is my music taste.

Slowly over time, what last.fm did noticing this taste of mine was to introduce symphonic metal bands like Ensiferum to me that are somewhate half-way between Dmitri Shastakovsky and Dimmu Borgir. I have actually started symphonic metal quite a lot now.

Of course, there are bands like Kronos quartet which do some real eerie classical music, probably there are some gypsy roots in the music.

...I must say all this is magic for me.