Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Introduced to me by The Wire magazine many years ago is the music of Harry Partch who developed a microtonal language well away from the twelve tome even tempered musical language of Bach. Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 unequal tones derived from the natural harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave.



Here is his rare non-vocal piece called And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma



He also invented his own musical instruments such as the Chromelodeon and the Kithara.

Just a thought, I wonder if King Crimson listened to Partch.