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Kind of Bloop
2009 studio album From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kind of Bloop is an album produced by Andy Baio, intended as a chiptune cover of Miles Davis's album Kind of Blue.
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Kickstarter is a website that allows people to pool together money to fund others' projects. A few months after its launch in 2009, Baio, a Miles Davis fan and the site's then chief technical officer, came up with the idea of recreating Kind of Blue in chiptune, a type of music found in early video games, as an example project to test the site's functionality. After getting copyright permission for each of Kind of Blue's five songs, Baio assigned each to a musician to work on for three months, allowing each complete creative control with the sole condition of keeping "Davis' original feeling and intensity". The track "All Blues" fell to New York jazz pianist Sam Ascher-Weiss, who created his version by relying on a recording of himself playing the original. According to him, the task was tiresome, requiring " a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do ".[1]
The album was publicly released on August 20, three days after the 50th anniversary of Kind of Blue's release. According to Baio, before its release, it was received negatively by users in some online jazz forums who "fe[lt] like it [was] blasphemy". Claire Suddah of Time described the album as not "sound[ing] like jazz" but not "sound[ing] completely unlike it either. It's like Miles Davis lost in Legend of Zelda".[1]
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