James Zabiela’s Renaissance Masters Mix Blog – Part 1

James Zabiela's Renaissance Masters Mix Blog - Part 1

This is the story of my Renaissance Masters mix or, put another way, a few days in the life of me and my music. A random ramble that accompanies the mix should you, the listener, want a further angle into the depths of the music and sounds that can be heard throughout the CD.

I spent a month walking around with a microtrak recorder in order to make this CD a snapshot of life through my ears. I practically live in headphones, they're permanently super glued to my head and I'm not often seen without them, whether it's going to the shop to buy a pint of milk or flying to some far flung island, city or town for a gig, so the constant use of the microtrak wasn't a massive change to my outward appearance - lol!

This first blog installment describes some of the samples, sounds and tunes that comprise the first 20 minutes of Disc 1, which in an unprecedented move, I am also making avail as a stream (link above) so you can marry words to music and hear what I am talking about. At a later date, before the full release of the album, I'm going to offer a free download of all the recorded samples (James Zabiela's Field Recordings), which you can have fun with picking out of the mix, discovering where - and how - I used them.
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