Official ProVari 3 Thread - P3 *PART 2*

[Tamer El-Meehy]

Seeing the word "Cairo" I was reminded of one of my all time favorite CDs: Songs from the Victorious City by Anne Dudley and Jaz Colemen. I'd forgotten how much I love it.

Interesting! The intro is purely Egyptian. The rest has strong Egyptian influence. Reminds me of what Led Zeppelin tried to do in Kashmir.


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[Tamer El-Meehy]

Make sure you order the P3 version of the endcap.

There are Two versions: one for the 2.5 and one for the P3.

Will do...Provape is out of stock so I'm placing the order with cloud 9 and they only have the one for the P3. I'll be getting 3 or 4 extra springs, the Squape R's B deck, and a replacement screen cover for my Semovar


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[Siam Diesel]

They're also in stock at Pink-Mule in Spain (who's also an authorized ProVari upgrade agent).

 

[The Ocelot]

Interesting! The intro is purely Egyptian. The rest has strong Egyptian influence. Reminds of what Led Zeppelin tried to do in Kashmir.


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It's been years since I read the liner notes, but I seem to recall that Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman spent some time traveling around Egypt listening to the sounds of the land - silence, people in the streets, the radio, etc., then went to London and scored the work. They returned to Cairo and recorded the CD with a symphony orchestra complemented with native instruments. It's a diverse work, not just pop.

 

[Tamer El-Meehy]

I should get this album..the fusion of oriental and western music can produce very good results. My only concern is that with a few exceptions the product often seemed more on the orientalist side.


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[The Ocelot]

I should get this album..the fusion of oriental and western music can produce very good results. My only concern is that with a few exceptions the product often seemed more on the orientalist side.


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Despite Jaz Coleman having studied Arabic quarter tones at Cairo Conservatoire (both he and Dudley compose classical pieces) the work is still a product of "Western" ears and likely misses some of the native nuances.

I'm a big fan of Eastern music - Indian, Middle-Eastern, Egyptian, Balinese, etc. - although I must admit I listen with my heart, not my head, and often have no clue what I'm listening to.

 

[Tamer El-Meehy]

That's what music is primarily for my friend I'm a huge fan of Cesaria Evora and I can't understand a single word of her songs!


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[The Ocelot]

That's what music is primarily for my friend I'm a huge fan of Cesaria Evora and I can't understand a single word of her songs!


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I mostly listen to classical music and film scores. Over the years have found that in contemporary music I prefer either instrumental or in a language I don't speak. Nothing ruins a great piece of music like abysmal lyrics.

 

[Tamer El-Meehy]

One has to wonder why Ravi Shankar became a big hit in the west while maintaining the authenticity of his music.


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[Tamer El-Meehy]

My preference over the last few years has been jazz and blues..I find jazz fusion with oriental or african music specifically enjoyable


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[The Ocelot]

One has to wonder why Ravi Shankar became a big hit in the west while maintaining the authenticity of his music.


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I believe you answered your own question. Authenticity and truth will always draw the heart. Look at ProVape.

 

[jwbnyc]

One has to wonder why Ravi Shankar became a big hit in the west while maintaining the authenticity of his music.


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Ravi Shankar was a transcendent talent.

 

[The Ocelot]

My preference over the last few years has been jazz and blues..I find jazz fusion with oriental or african music specifically enjoyable


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My CD collection is very eclectic. Now I think I'll dig out Afro Celt Sound System's 1st CD.

 

[Mowgli]

I received this album in a batch of records the day after I snapped a picture of The Eye from a movie on TV.
Two Eye events in two days. whatever.

I'm more of a Tales Of Mystery & Imagination or I Robot fan.

 

[Mowgli]

listen, it's just betterer



Celebrate being human. It's a song to robots.
I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE LIKE YOU LYRICS - ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

 

[The Ocelot]

I received this album in a batch of records the day after I snapped a picture of The Eye from a movie on TV.
Two Eye events in two days. whatever.

I'm more of a Tales Of Mystery & Imagination or I Robot fan.

Whoa! Memory lane time! I saw Alan Parsons at the Greek Theater. I like his work, but I tend to prefer acoustic instruments.

As far as two Eyes...I believe in signs, they happen around me all the time.

 

[Katdarling]

Off topic, but my dayum YLB/Kabuki tanks were ordered back on 30-Jun. They hit Brooklyn on 2-Jul, and appear to like it there.

I think Joey Chestnut ate them.

Joey called. Your dayum YLB/Kabukes are moving.... s l o w l y.

It's the Eye of Horus. EddardinWinter created the first ProVarinati sigil and used the Eye of Providence. When I created the second version I used the Eye of Horus: 1) because it reduced better for use in signatures; and 2) I like what the Eye of Horus represents over what the Eye of Providence represents and i haz drawed it. Members use whichever they like best, or sometimes create their own.

The version used on the cap was a version of the second sigil with PlanofMan's ambigram added - ProVarinati reads the same when upside down.

Sigil 1:

Sigil 2:

Cap:

The "L," "S" and "T" in the corners stand for Lumin Sees Totus. It was the Will (cough, fault) of EddardinWinter, ProVarinati Praetor, that our motto (and subsequent native tongue) is fractured EngLatin, untranslatable by the Nonbelievers.

Gawd I do love herstory.

I never even noticed the ambigram. That's it. Stronger cheaters are on the list.

 

[Mowgli]

ahah, Mr. Sting! That gives me an idea.

Murder By Numbers wasn't on the Synchronicity LP but I have it on the cassette.
And it's on Mr. Zappa's fine historical document called Broadway The Hard Way.



and then...

 

[The Ocelot]

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I never even noticed the ambigram. That's it. Stronger cheaters are on the list.

I guess you missed the lengthy discussions PoM and I had when we were trying to perfect the ambigram (long before the cap idea came up). Perhaps that's one reason you don't have a ProVarinati signature.

 

[Katdarling]

Correctamundo, on both kounts, Ms. Celot. But I do have the cap! (Thank you, East Coast bud.) It tiz brilliant work by you and POM both.

Where is the Winter man these daze?