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Kora In The Garden: Blue Garden

by Daniel Berkman

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Harkening 06:48
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Foday Kabba 08:36
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Last Word 08:39
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Blue Garden 09:47
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Trailblazer 09:10

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"Blue Garden" was live-streamed on Facebook on June 26, 2020 as part of a series of kora concerts called "Kora In The Garden".
During the months of June, July and August I was experimenting with tunings, especially blues and pentatonic tunings.
The title track "Blue Garden" used extended techniques including plucking the strings from below the bridge which created strange microtonal pitches.
The tuning was a blues tuning, but playing below the bridge took the sound to a far more other worldly place.
The kora used on this album is a 23 stringed chromatic kora with tuning levers made by Michael Schraud of Kumbengo Koras.
The tuning capabilities of this kora made playing in different modes and keys much easier and the impetus to experiment more enticing!

All the music on "Blue Garden" is completely improvised.

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released August 6, 2021

Live and improvised solo kora performed by: Daniel Berkman
Mixed & Mastered by: Daniel Berkman
Cover Photography and Art by: Daniel Berkman

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Daniel Berkman San Francisco, California

Daniel Berkman is a Bay Area electronic musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, looper and innovator of the Kora (a 21-stringed harp-lute from West Africa) and it's modern counterpart, the Gravikord.
Daniel composes for dance, film, instrumental, vocal and also has recordings under his electronic music moniker Colfax.
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