Riff Cafe

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Everything is a remix

Everything is a Remix from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Why hello there...Mr Bojangles

A friend of mine sent me this video yesterday. Without doubt, one of the best performances I've seen in this lifetime. I can only imagine how it would've been live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du22wApJqvs

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Floating

I just found myself dreamily saying to a friend, 'music floats my soul and takes me to new places' and it struck me that I have neglected writing on Riff Cafe for longer than I would like to admit.

The truth is that Riff Cafe conceptually is one of the most beautiful things I've taken part in but it happened at a point in my life when I took so many beautiful things for granted. I was studying in London. I lived in Bloomsbury, where one of my idols, Bertrand Russell did his ideating - I swear I thought I could see him walk around Tavistock Square. I worked at an independent literary press part time, where I had a boss who stepped right out of one of those British novels saying, 'Oh dah-ling, that is so quaint!'. Every alternate weekend I would go to Cambridge to see the boy I loved. I even got an editorial job at one of the world's biggest publishing houses when I graduated. In general, I was surrounded by art, poetry, music, theatre, literature and well, that blissful state of unawareness that I would become someone totally different very soon.

Very soon is here. I love anything I can quantify or categorise. Esoteric annoys me. I need to tick everything off a list or colour code it. I am at ease with Excel sheets. If I could fit you in a grid, I would. I trade in the stock market. Yes, I said it. I work for a firm that trades in the stock market. And while I wouldn't say it has made me dull in the least (but then again, I might not be the best judge of that), I know there is that whimsical student inside me wondering what the fuck happened. Every time she musters the courage to whisper something to me, I turn around with a ruthless look I've mastered recently and she retreats. Every day I hope she goes away.

She's the one who made the statement about floating and souls. She's the one who is listening to a surreal new sound aka Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro. Afrojazzlatinfunkpiano-eque. She's the one who made me write on Riff Cafe right now.

Hello, world. I guess I am still here.

Friday, June 18, 2010

W00t

So there's this really talented musician who takes Youtube videos of famous musicians and...

Monday, September 14, 2009

What happened to rock 'n roll?

http://current.com/items/90802048_rock-sucks-in-2009.htm

Monday, September 7, 2009

Nickelback

They suck so much, they steal from themselves.

http://musicforants.com/assets/vs/How%20You%20Remind%20Me%20Of%20Someday.mp3

Bludgeon Riffola

Please help! This is the stuff I've got so far:

Stairway!
Smoke on the Water
Sweet Child o’Mine
Wanted Dead or Alive
Layla
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Beat it
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Smells like Teen Spirit
Sweet Home Alabama
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Enter Sandman
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Back in Black
Purple Haze
Black Dog
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Immigrant Song
Bulls on Parade
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Johnny B Goode
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Money for Nothing
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Start me up
Sunshine of your Love
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Hell’s bells
Foxy Lady
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Aqualung
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Carry on my Wayward Son
Cowbell Song
Cemetery Gates
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love
Walk this Way
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Life in the Fast Lane
Come as you are
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Californication
Kashmir
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Blackbird
Eye of the Tiger
All along the Watchtower
Brown Eyed Girl
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Breaking the Law
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When I come around
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Black Hole Sun?
Oh Pretty Woman
Day Tripper
Panama
Born to be Wild
Hunters & Collectors – Holy Grail? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaKjDIPYSHM – worth a watch
Cat Scratch Fever
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Just a Girl
Iron Man
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Black or White
Sultans of Swing
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Whole Lotta Love
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Owner of a Lonely Heart
Magic Carpet Ride?
I Love Rock’n’Roll
Brown Sugar
La Bamba
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You Really Got Me
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House of the Rising Sun
Dust in the Wind
Rhiannon
Susie Q
Voodoo Chile
Eruption

And don't get me started on the 'I know that one!' stuff.