New Traditionalist | Ian Thomas

I posted a link to Pogo in a tweet a couple of weeks ago but think he deserves a post on the blog.

Aside from the fact that I have a per­sonal pref­er­ence for the kind of music he is cre­at­ing, what I also love is his abil­ity to take some­thing as ubi­quit­ous as speech and, by lay­er­ing more and more excerpts of dia­logue one upon the other woven together with a bass line and melody, trans­forms it into some­thing extraordinary.

(Glan­cing back to my ‘Some­thing for the week­end’ post a couple of weeks ago, I spy a theme emer­ging here.)

Pogo him­self mod­estly says: ‘The track is com­posed of a sine wave bass, custom drum sequences, and sounds recor­ded from the Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’.

I con­sider the man from Perth, Aus­tralia, to be an artist of real skill; his com­pos­i­tions just happen to be painted in sound and video.

There’s more from Pogo at his You­Tube and MySpace sites. I recom­mend it if you need a dose of uplift­ing optim­istic ideal­ism as part of the daily grind.