"Mindif" - Abdullah Ibrahim 

Very very nice indeed! moody and slow..... a lot of suspense... i dont know.. this melody sounds very very familiar.. like i heard in old mystery movies/tv show before... im sure... is this a rendition of and old tune, or is it that melody im talking about is sampled in... i need to know....let me know :)

Glad you like this too!! :)) I just had a look and actually was quite sure, all the music from this CD is written by himself. So well, musicians are also just people and imagine how difficult it can be to play a melody and to make sure that it not gets played on the other side of the globe at the same time (and both think it's 'their' melody). On the other hand musicians also have heard other music and get influenced by it, maybe once heard and suddenly playing the same again, liking it and not remembering that they already heard it once. ;) I have my own experience, check this song of mine (a poor piano improvisation;) "Changes". One japanese friend and asian friends from other countries felt very familiar with it... the japanese friend is piano-player and even showed me the japanese traditional and played it on the piano (without warning me;) and I just said 'oh, it sounds familiar to me..' and then noticed, yeah it sounds just like my own track... ;)) I must add, before I recorded it I saw a special in tv that was about asia with music playing there...

Btw, if you use a mac and don't see the player on myspace, try to move over the player slowly with the mouse, then the play-button and so should appear. =)

yes i heard your "changes". I can understand how this will remind listeners of music from the orient. In bits and parts it sounds very much like various traditional pieces - chinese and japanese. great piece :)

ok i listened to Mindif again.. i am very sure i heard this tune somewhere.. it's not a coincidence of composition... not in small buts, but it's the whole melody... i am sure .. my hearing esp when i comes to music is very good (:p i shouldnt brag to a musician but i really think so..hehe).. i think, it is possible that someone else did a rendition of this song, very possible since it was composed in the 80s. I really like this piece very much now. thanks :)

Thank you for listening to "changes" and for liking it!! :D

As for "Mindif", who knows... the only thing I can tell he recorded it in 1998 and back then he was in his mid 60s, so maybe he himself didn't remember that he once might have heard this piece of music you refer to and that he "copied" whole passages of it... after many years, decades of dealing with music, having listened to thousands of different compositions and having played maybe almost as many, things and memories might get vague, but very rarely emotions and melodies do... =))

this African suite souds really coooool :)

Yeah, it is :) Especially the first three tracks of the record are in my eyes the best... but still the whole CD is great. :))