{"id":3699,"date":"2021-01-31T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:00:15","slug":"soundwave-44-ishmael-cormack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-44-ishmael-cormack\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 44 : ISHMAEL CORMACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is Ishmael Cormack<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

To date, nearly all the guest deejays on SOUNDWAVE are people I have relationships with or introduced to me through the guest deejays. Ishmael is different.<\/p>\n\n

These days I purchase nearly all my music on Bandcamp<\/a>. Yes, I said purchase. I\u2019m old fashioned that way. Oh, I do more than my fair share of streaming, but if I find music I genuinely love, I\u2019m happy to spend money on it. Bandcamp is my favorite platform to purchase music because the artists and labels are treated fairly, and they receive a higher percentage of money from sales than most other platforms. So I\u2019m on Bandcamp a lot. And because of SOUNDWAVE, I tend to peruse releases from ambient, classical, experimental, and instrumental musicians.<\/p>\n\n

If you enjoy music from any of those genres, you know from experience that most of it are dreck. The music tends to be bland or outright terrible. It isn\u2019t easy to compose music in those genres that\u2019s engaging and take you on an emotional journey. It\u2019s refreshing to find musicians who do it well, and Ishmael is one of those artists.<\/p>\n\n

I\u2019m not a musician myself, so it\u2019s difficult for me not to fall into clich\u00e9s to describe Ishmael\u2019s music using words like delicate<\/em>, pretty<\/em>, or sonorous<\/em>. I\u2019m reminded of an interview I once heard with Ben Frost<\/a> where he complained of this very thing. I believe he said something to the effect that sommeliers have many metaphors to describe wines\u2019 taste, but we lack the same when talking about music.<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s almost a shame, then, that today\u2019s mix from Ishmael does not feature his music. Almost, because Ishmael has lovingly selected tracks that are, sigh<\/em>, delicate, pretty, and sonorous, but it\u2019s true. It\u2019s a wonderful mix.<\/p>\n\n

If you enjoy today\u2019s show, and I have no doubt you will, then support the artists by following my example and purchasing their music. And while you\u2019re at it, listen to Ishmael\u2019s releases on Bandcamp<\/a>, and if you hear something like it, show him your appreciation by spending some money on his music.<\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Tim Six, founder of \u03a0\u0391\u039d\u0398\u0395\u039f\u039d Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

See you then!<\/p>\n\n

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Ishmael Cormack<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n