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This album is going to be outstanding. I´ve been working with songs infused with konnakol rhythms. Choir and a funky rhythm section. If you dig my Konnakol - you might wanna check this out. And if you join the crowdfunding - you will not only get the new album but also bonus material from the studio  

Today is 6/8 - witch is also one of the most common rhythms in music. To celebrate this I repost this because it's about what you can do in 6/8 with a little knowledge. To me rhythm is the art of timetravelling. Getting from point A to point B! And in this example in surprising new ways. I hope that this will bring delight to some of you and even inspire. The technique that I use to sing and count here derives from the 5000 years old Carnatic music tradition. And its called KONNAKOL. 

Subdivisions, polyrhythms and "nested tuplets" inspired by Frank Zappa with an example from "The Black Page #1"  This video contain my own personal training programs that I have developed during decades - F.ex I dance, and sing, more than 50 different polyrhythms.  LEARN KONNAKOL 4 - is rhythmic training on a whole new level!!!! FEEDBACK: Alfonzo Oliver (USA) : This is useful to more people than you think. 

One thing that I learned from Trilok Gurtu and the whole Konnakol tradition is that there is soo much more to discover within a simple bar of 4/4 than most musicians can even imagine. Here is a simple example of how two bars of 4/4 can be turned in to amazing melodic rhythms. Most musicians has some knowledge about the basic chord progressions, in our culture,  like: 4-5-1 or 2-5-1. But here is an introduction to the indian rhythmic progression in 3 parts TIHAI - resolving on beat one. Can you imagine what happens if you combine these two things? ...