DOWNLOAD MIGUEL ATWOOD FERGUSON SUITE FOR MA DUKES

Hiphop had never been given the Chamber music treatment before and in such a reverential and rhythmic way and there is no drums. When and how was this project in particular conceived, and what are your and Miguel's roles? I was looking forward to approaching him about a collaboration. For a while there he seemed to be on a good track, health-wise, but as we all know, he then deteriorated pretty quickly. It is hiphop as you never thought in a way you have never heard. Description Four tracks cover Dilla magic.

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More on the making of Suite for Ma Dukes, with full credits at: Previous Play Duked Next. Fast forward two years — in February,several days after his 32nd birthday, Dilla passed away due to Lupus related complications.

I met Dilla in L. After his funeral, Miguel and I decided move forward with our idea, as a dukss to him. Rhythm section sessions were recorded first, then Miguel wrote to those, and arranged the sections after that.

For a while there he seemed to be on a good track, health-wise, but as we all know, he then deteriorated pretty quickly. It is hiphop as you never thought in a way you atdood never heard. My radio show that first aired in Fall covered a lot of ground.

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: Suite for Ma Dukes (NYC Premiere)

A chat with Carlos Nino Stones Throw: Together we conceived of the project and I've been involved in every step from consulting to mixing. Tracks Find A Way.

They had written the entire piece to accompany the record. Where and how was Suite for Ma Dukes recorded? Hiphop had never been given the Chamber music treatment before and in such a reverential and rhythmic way and there is no drums. Nag Champa was recorded in my living room in Echo Park, 1 instrument and 1 mic at a time.

I know your background in hip-hop - among other things, you wrote the first published article on Stones Throw for Rap Pages in '96 - but some might not be so clear on how you go from spinning Dilla records to involvement with chamber music on Suite for Ma Dukes. When and how was this project in particular conceived, and what are your and Miguel's roles?

So I guess you could say I was always open, as I still am, to all sorts of possibilities.

I have to say though, that my main role has been supporting Miguel, whose whole life has gone kiguel this! Miguel's a writer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist that has played with great artists of all styles, from Ray Charles, John Cale to Essa Pekka Solonen. He's the writer, arranger, contractor, lead music producer, co-mixer and a performer on Suite For Ma Dukes. Early in the project received the official blessing from Ma Mma herself.

At the same time I wrote for Rap Pages, championing independent Hip-Hop in the wake of the ultra-commercial co-option of the culture, I was also working with Jazz, Soul and Fergusn artists of all kinds.

A circle had been completed somehow.

But now in the contemporary chamber music style that Atwood-Ferguson had been developing. They had written the entire piece to accompany the record as a their tribute to Dilla, feeling sute the producer was still in the track not by his presence but by his absence. At the end of 08 they put the finishing touches on the first official release of this music — a four track EP entitled Suite for Ma Dukes which will be released by Mochilla in April of As stated by Mochilla, proceeds from the record will go to Dilla's heirs.

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SUITE FOR MA DUKES - CARLOS NINO & MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON | Rush Hour

I was looking forward to approaching him about a collaboration. It's become a cosmic conversation with him, and others, at this point. They have been a virtual production powerhouse. W 18 - Miguel and I became quick friends, and started working on music together pretty much right away. Stones Throw Online Store.