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Mapfumo’s music shares numerous elements with the best of modern trance music. Both are based around driving, endless beats although in Mapfumo’s case, the rhythms are in the distinctive compound measure of the thumb-piano. Both use subtle variations with no single instrument leading the melody, creating hugely long songs (Mapfumo’s penultimate song lasted at least 20 minutes). Most importantly, both create an irresistible urge to dance...
...built around a motion sensor that picks up vibrations from the surrounding room. Put it on the floor, and when a toddler stamps a foot or knocks on a wall, Musini composes music on the fly in time with the kid's movements. The room itself becomes a musical instrument, one that never plays the same song twice. Note: Musini is not compatible with Hummel figurine collections...
Last week Axel Springer said it would exercise its $662 million "put" option to sell to Kirch an 11.5% stake in broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media. (A "put" option is a risk-averse instrument that gives the holder the right to sell an asset at a predetermined price.) It demanded that the payment be settled by April. Kirch challenged the move?s legality, since the deal?s structure was reportedly left open to accommodate changes in German tax law. But as with so many of Kirch?s corporate dealings, there are subplots within subplots...
Things could get a lot worse for Kirch if Rupert Murdoch is thinking along the same lines. Rumors are constantly swirling that Murdoch may use Kirch?s current debt problems to make an opportunistic grab for a greater share of the pie. And he may also have the instrument with which to do it. In 1999, Murdoch?s BSkyB bought into KirchPayTV. But it, too, negotiated a "put" option - come October, BSkyB can elect to sell back its 22% stake in KirchPayTV to Kirch for an estimated $1.5 billion, above market value. Murdoch may demand that Kirch pays...
...script of the second Beatles film, Help!, called for chase scenes involving cartoonish Hindu villains, and Indian sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar - if indeed one can noodle on a sitar - and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend, a disciple and son to me," said Shankar, who visited Harrison for the last time...