Scarabbean
Friday, January 29, 2010
Shake the desert beetles out of your sandals, throw a paper umbrella in your beverage and get out of your chairs as Negara takes you on a mini island vacation.
* As with many of the sounds on our
Hungarian Sideshow
Monday, December 21, 2009
We captured this performance at Bar Carlo where we featured guest violinist Jorge from the inimitable Underscore Orkestra.
This is a fairly new piece that we loved before we’d even settled on the
Journey into the cosmos
Saturday, August 8, 2009
This little sound experience occurred during a lovely wedding for which Negara was hired to provide music this past weekend. It truly was a joyous event held in a pastoral setting on Sauvie
Finatawa
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
As for the song’s name... the melodic nugget from which this song was crafted came to Doug in a fever-dream induced by repeated listenings of music by the desert blues band Etran Finatawa. This
Bijou’s Escape
Thursday, January 22, 2009
This tune, named after a certain precocious feline, is another early work for Negara. While initially inspired by a middle-eastern street rhythm, it also incorporates other recently-expanded
