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Hello, Hello, Hello… I’m back after a much needed break. Long story short, my world was turning into a chaotic mess and I felt like I was being swallowed whole. Not an experience I’v had ever in my life. I’m through it now and things are moving in a positive way. The music is coming along, personal things are on an even keel, I got a much needed promotion on my job and we are “Westward Bound” around this time next year going to our forever home in western Washington State.

First things first.. the photos.. the top two are photos of my daughter’s graduation ceremony. She got her Bachelors degree at The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at Southwestern University.. cum laude ya’ll.. She’s a smart cookie and she worked her ass off. I’m over the top proud of her. Thanks to my son and daughter.in.law, I was able to go down to Texas for a short visit and attend the ceremony. Man.. what a time. I got a full recharge while I was there. My sister, her husband and my niece and nephew with his wife and son, my daughter’s wife, my son, his wife and my granddaughter, and friends Yup.. TONS of LOVE!!! The last picture is Turkey Trot back at home here. Not in this photo is the Girly Turkey that has all the Toms fluffed up.

Next.. music stuff. I pulled the album (NO LIMITS by likuid eklektik)off of my page for the time being. I’m not sure how that mix got by me but, it was down right embarrassing. I have the process down now for setting up my template for mixes and getting much better results. A combination of what I found on YOUTUBE that applies to my program (Logic Pro X) and what was passed on to me by Paul Ramsey (Perfect Pitch Studio, Austin, Texas), has all my mixes out of the DEMO league and finally sounding professional. I’m working on both likuid eklektik and Papa T at the same time currently. And all of it is sounding very good. I’m not forecasting any completion time frame just yet.. it will be a minute before that happens.

So now that I’ve done a restart with updates, I will be sending one out every two weeks until further notice. The next round, I will fill you in with some more detail on the projects as well as a song list for Papa T’s Dub Project #2. Until then, everyone take good care and thank you again for dropping in.

humanmusique’s updates will be postponed until further notice. I will give plenty of warning prior to starting up again.

The photo… What you see there is primarily the outside environment in my area. I should be able to appreciate it more than I do. Hmmm..

Take good care all.

So… I apologize. I was out for three weeks.. I mentioned just taking some needed down time and I certainly needed it. Between work and working on bouncing back from the “Super Flu”.. I tell you. Just a couple days ago now I’ve had the strength to get back into my excercise routine. Whatever this Flu strain was, it zapped my wife and I both pretty hard. With her conditions she’s having a particularly hard time bouncing back. Almost a month now and she’s still low on energy. One foot in front of the other and we’ll both be back on track.

Notice the tulips in our front garden. They’re a bit sad in the photo. The weather played a trick on them and warmed up enough for them to bloom and then… it froze!! Not a hard freeze, but enough to send a mild shock to the poor tulips. But, they are a resilient plant though. They’re hanging in there and blooming every morning and resting every night.

How’s the music you say?? Papa T’s Dub Project #2 is coming along nicely. The things that I’ve learned along the way, principally Paul Ramsey’s template, has helped me zero in much more effectively from the beginning of the production process. There are some differences in application for me though. As I mentioned in a previous episode, currently all of my recording is accomplished by a method called direct input. There are no microphones involved for the instruments you hear. I either used digital instruments generated from my recording program or an external sound module. The only one’s in use right now are my Roland JV-1010 and Alexis electric drum kit. The vocals that you hear were recorded at Perfect Pitch Studio in Austin, Texas. That’s Paul Ramsey’s joint. And I shine all the tracks up real nice and make them pleasant to the earhole and get them out to you. The dub project is going to be good.. I’m very excited about it and glad that I’m able to be working with it a bit more as I slowly regain my strength.

The project after this one will be some cues that I’ve had with me for a bit. I changed gears here.. I was going straight to the Papa T “Say what you gotta say…Lovers and Warriors” but, for now I’m going to let the dub project represent my reggae me and work on getting the cues out. I will be sending invitations to music supervisors and offering memberships to access the total body of work after that’s completed. So.. the only way to access the cues will be with a membership. The membership also allows access during the production process of the cues here and there. All the wrinkles haven’t been worked out yet but, little by little we’ll get there.

Okay so.. I’m gong to move over to working on that dub project and I will be back in two weeks. Take good care all.. soon.

Greetings all. No music work for the past two weeks.. or to say, very little music work. Part of that was time off and the other was getting slapped around by some weird Flu strain. I tell you.. since COVID times, there have been some serious Flu mutations. I have not been that sick in a good while. No long winded progress report tonight. I will have to catch up on that on April 12.. the day before my mother’s birthday and three days after my son Tomy’s birthday. We’ll talk then.

Before I go.. the Photo. This is a drum made by my good friend and mentor Odis Max Johnson. Afrikan rhythm’s expert, Stilt walker, African Instrument, costume and mask maker..https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553914287817&sk=photos When you get a chance, stop by and check him out. Sparse but, powerful.

Until next time guys. Take good care.

Hello again all. I hope things are reasonably well out there. It’s been a jam packed two weeks. Work. house things, life things.. and, the up note?? The one and only option.. Things are good and will definitely get better. So says we and so shall it be.

The photo.. Tis the one and only I, Tom T the alias Papa T deemed so by Ras Injinga, master percussionist and pan master. I wear it proudly. Back to the photo.. This photo is one from my time with the now defunct 724th Air Force Band that was assigned to McChord AFB, Tacoma, WA. The group I performed with was called “Impact”. A very good group of musicians and humans. The environment on the whole and my time in the AFB was one of the richest and certainly some my favorite times as a musician. It was, indeed my first solid job as a professional musician when you include things like regular pay, medical and dental with the occasional Retreat gathering from time to time. I do miss the energy from that time.. and there was some serious talent there. Do your job or you don’t have a job rules make you sit up and pay attention.

Sooo.. now the current events with Dub Project #2 with Papa T. Things are coming along very well. I do believe I’ll have some production company for this project and possibly the following Papa T project. That will be confirmed one way or the other on our next visit in two weeks. Reminder.. for now at least, we’ll be gathering every two weeks. But at this point progress is moving along just fine. For the most part, all the templates are in place. It looks like 10 songs. I’ll have song titles in a bit.. not sure exactly when. As well, there will be some details on the page structure and an annual membership, what comes with the membership and so on in the not too distant future. Working out the wrinkles as I have time. What I need is a friend that gets struck with a philanthropic disease and funds not only my projects but pays my salary as well. then I can quit my day job. Someone out there knows this person.. find them and send them to me.

Alright.. that’s it for now. I’ll be right back here in the same joint on Friday, March 29,2024 with some more information about humanmusique productions things. Take good care and do good things.. the world needs it.