Re‧mi Do

Summer encounters.

Syreeta  |  I Love Every Little Thing About You
Mulatu Astatke  |  Mulatu
Omar  |  Music (What I Live For)
Lewis Taylor  |  Lucky
The RH Factor  |  Poetry ft. Q-Tip, Erykah Badu
DJ Mitsu The Beats  |  Right Here ft. Dwele
Chaka Khan  |  Love Has Fallen on Me
Georgia Anne Muldrow  |  Blackman
Aloe Blacc  |  Find Your Way
Sly & The Family Stone  |  Sylvester
Marvin Gaye  |  What’s Going On (instrumental)
John Williams  |  Theme from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Maze feat. Frankie Beverly  |  Feel That You’re Feelin’ (New Orleans, 1980)
Dorothy Ashby  |  Wax and Wane
Esperanza Spalding  |  Sunlight
Koop  |  Whenever There Is You
Don Blackman  |  Holding You, Loving You
Four Tet  |  Angel Echoes
Jazzanova  |  Little Bird ft. Jose James
Kool & The Gang  |  Summer Madness (London, 1975)

Mixed by El Mahboob, June 2012
Dedicated to Nina & Queen Peace

Re‧mi Do
‧ an affirmation to my daughter
‧ the first three notes of the famous musical signal from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind
‧ three key signature areas (re for D/D-flat, mi for E major/minor, and do for C) where songs in the mix are grouped together. I’ve used the technique of harmonic mixing/selecting to unite or contrast songs.

The copyrights for these recordings are the intellectual property of the artists, though the corporations take the credit and the money. I own nothing. Support music.

By elmahboob

Bruce A. Russell aka Ibrahim El Mahboob (b. Kingston, ON, 1968) is a composer and self-taught pianist living and working in Toronto (Tkarón:to, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat). He studied at York University with James Tenney and Phillip Werren. He has composed music for the Madawaska String Quartet, Modern Times Stage Company, McMaster Dancers and choreographers Pam Johnson and Tracy Renee Stafford. Interest in his work increased in 2020, with performances by Arraymusic, Prism Percussion, Second Note Duo, San Juan Symphony and Idaho Falls Symphony. He was host of Radio Music Gallery, and has written for Musicworks and I Care if You Listen. His interests are in 20th and 21st century concert music especially postminimalism, and music of the African diaspora including notated and non-notated forms. He is a parent of three and is employed in the financial sector.

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