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The following was written by Gilad Atzmon. I use it with kind permission, and believe it sums up how we at Basilika feel about things musicwise.

This is my first proper post (sort of) and I’ve had to change my name from brubeck because someone else is biting my style…from now on, on here at least, I shall be known as ‘brubeq’.

Take it easy y’all peace.

Rearranging the Twentieth Century

In the early days of the twentieth century, culture became an industry and music became a commodity. To begin with it looked promising. Music for the people, beauty en masse. This is when jazz was born, when tango crossed oceans, when Nino Rota met Fellini, when the Beatles managed to persuade teenyboppers to toss their knickers in the air. But things changed, something went wrong.
It was a pretty gloomy day when I realised that popular music wasn’t aiming towards beauty. Music stopped referring to itself. Aesthetics was brutally murdered in broad daylight and a shallow notion of fashion took its place. A market value was attached to every bar. Music became furniture, a matter of style, a mass global product, an extension of Levi jeans or a secondary product to Coca-Cola.
It is time to move on, to rediscover why we all listened to music in the first place, why some of us decided to play music for a living. It is time to seek a glimpse of essentiality in our overwhelmingly noisy environment. Now is the time to rearrange the twentieth century, to stand up, to rebel, to resist and to say ‘no thanks’. It is time to tell Big Brother ‘I will decide what music is about’. This album is a search for the means rather than for an end. It is about playing music; it is about making music for the sake of musiK.

No…that’s not a spelling mistake…for more information about Gilad, and for his interpretation of the word ‘musiK’, and to buy his Cds - check www.gilad.co.uk

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