Rhythm By Addition

by Lee Barry

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1.	Sprockets 03:27	info	buy track
2.	Use Blues 04:02	info	buy track
3.	Six On The Floor 04:02	info	buy track
4.	HuZu 03:18	info	buy track
5.	Suasion 04:26	info	buy track
6.	Rough Grooved Surface 03:46	info	buy track
7.	Thought Trains 03:10	info	buy track
8.	Figured Basses 04:00	info	buy track
9.	Langar 02:02	info	buy track
10.	African Dust 04:52	info	buy track
11.	Eke 04:30		buy track
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"Rhythm By Addition" is a term in music theory that defines the metric style of non-Western music, whereby rhythms are built in layers, and are not subdivisions of the beat ('Rhythm By Division").

In African music, there are many independent rhythms happening simultaneously. In Western pop music rhythms are wrapped around the square box of 4/4.

Hip-hop was the first genre to break out of the rigid hierarchical structure of quarter notes dividing into eights and sixteenths, and "adding" additional rhythmic filigree over the top as a counterpoint.

To speak of 'counterpoint' is to relate it to melody only, with the vertical consequence of polyphony. The same thing happens with rhythms--namely, polyrhythms.

In pop music you can lock into a beat and stay there. In polyrhythmic music you can relate to disparate layers and still mesh with the beat.

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released October 15, 2011

All instruments: Lee Barry

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