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Largest Saxophone Ensemble

It’s not  every day you get to set a world record, but that’s exactly how I spent my afternoon yesterday. If ever I needed more proof that I somehow ended up in the right city in the world after all, Taichung yesterday hosted an attempt at a Guinness world record for the largest saxophone ensemble – keep in mind too that the town of Houli not far from here is almost entirely dedicated to the  manufacturing of saxophones. Anyways, we did it – the new record stands at 918 saxophonists all blowing at the same time and relatively in tune to boot ;^) I have a T-shirt and certificate to show for my participation, along with this vid.

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Tafubar – Changeability

After blogging about my work on it here many times, Tafubar‘s Changeability has finally become available from Lemongrassmusic. You can read all about it and find purchase links here.  I wish Tafubar much success with his debut release.

To coincide with the release of the album, this very fun video for the track The Man Who Had Bad Dreams has just become available, too. Gotta love that baby/pig/monster!

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Compilations

I’m mixing the last two tracks for Tafubar, bringing the total tally of mixes for Tafu up to 28.  It’s been quite an epic job, but with the end in sight I have to admit that I’ve really enjoyed the experience and have learnt a lot in the process. Tafu’s album (now entitled Changeability) will be released on the Lemongrassmusic imprint soon, but the collaboration has also yielded features on five new compilation albums:

Lemongrass Garden Vol. 3

Buddha Grooves 4

Cafe Oriental Vol. 7

Tafubar – “The Lemongrass Remixes”  EP

Lounge du Soleil Vol.3

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CABACA – now available on Jamendo for free download

The CABACA album is not only now available in shops here in Taiwan, but has also just been uploaded to Jamendo and is available for free download. It’s not quite the entire album (the full album has more than 50 tracks, including ringtones), but these first 11 tracks form the core of this collaboration album.

You can grab it here: CABACA ON JAMENDO

The website is still under construction, but you’ll soon be able to get all the information about the CABACA album and artists featured on the album from cabaca.org.

We’re also in the process of uploading a cappellas and a bunch of stems from the album to CCMixter.org. Grab those here (more to come):

http://ccmixter.org/people/CC_Asia_Band

That’s in addition to some online mixable tracks available at SPLICE, here:

http://www.splicemusic.com/people/CC_Asia_Band/

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Attending iSummit ’08

It’s looking more and more likely that I’ll be attending this year’s iSummit at the end of July to share experiences working on the CABACA / CC Asia Band project. Last year’s iSummit was hosted in Croatia, but this year the host city is Sapporo, Japan. I sat in on one of the sessions broadcast live into SecondLife last year and even managed to ask a question of the panelists at that session. It makes me all the more excited to take part in person this year. I’m also hoping to do a performance of my live set to be streamed live in to SL, perhaps with some of the CABACA collaborators – we’ll have to see how that develops.

***UPDATE***

I have my air-ticket and have officially registered. Guess I’ll be going then, Now I’m just waiting for a letter of invitation from Sapporo City for my visa application.