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Beatductions is fantastic!

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Jan 24Liked by Peter Blasevick

François famously influenced Pablo’s paintings. When asked if he had an influence on her art he said, oh no, she had a much greater influence on me. I recently scored an old book of François Gilot’s paintings of Greek gods, and the text was written by, guess who, Ariana Huffington of Huffington Post fame. A steal, used online. Wonderful job, marrying music and art, a very enjoyable post.

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Wow that book was a get! Thanks so much for reading, glad you enjoyed!!

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Jan 24Liked by Peter Blasevick

Pablo to Jonas is a wow!

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No kidding!!

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Hypnotic. Love it and love the Paloma inspiration.

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Thank you so much! Appreciate you checking it out!

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“I need the composition of these reductions to be very separate and delineated when I am envisioning the music. Does that make sense to anyone besides me?”

It makes complete sense to me!

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Whew!

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Jan 24Liked by Peter Blasevick

Me too!

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Jan 23Liked by Peter Blasevick

Where do we find hats like that? Awesome beat too!

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Well thank you sir. We all need cool hats.

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Jan 23Liked by Peter Blasevick

[It’s the guitar. Or maybe the sweet feathery hat.] For me, it's definitely the hat--and also the guitar. But that hat! I love this groove and it was fun learning a bit more about your mysterious past as a swingman!

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I like when people call me mysterious.

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Jan 27Liked by Peter Blasevick

Delightful, Peter — the production on this one is tasty. Great work as always!

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Thank you sir!!

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Love everything about this. The inspiration train, of course (which we are all passengers--or are we the caboose?), but especially the muted (gated?) bass which sounds like a tuba in my headphones.

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A tuba! That’s great. I wanted it to soft and kinda blobby.

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Jan 24Liked by Peter Blasevick

I love the educational component of these beatductions and this one’s knocked my brain’s socks off. Also the explanation of a fascinating component of your process linking the reduction to the beat and thereby having to exclude or differently delineate elements of the reduction in order to facilitate the beat. Amazing and yes it totally clicked with me. And last but not least the bluesy riff. So great as usual

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