UFO's, Crop Circles, the Face on Mars. Area 51, Secret Conspiracies, Unexplained Phenomena and Lost Tribes. These are some of the topics tackled by RiffJam Tribe. "Spacerock for Inquiring Minds".
Welcome to my RiffJam Tribe page. Here you'll find breaking news on my Spacerock recording projects. If you enjoy the music of Hawkwind, Eloy, Ayreon, Pink Floyd, Mahogany Rush and Camel and are intrigued by science-fiction, space exploration and the unexplained my music may appeal to you. Check this page frequently for progress updates on my upcoming debut album: "First Contact".
Working out of a tiny bedroom studio in the Midwest
and enlisting a battery of synths, samplers and sequencers,
RiffJam Tribe combines rotorhythmic jams with spacey electronic instrumentals. -WORKING ON AN ELECTRIC-BLUE "STUDIO TAN"
ROTORHYTHM ( Ro-Toe-Ri-Thim )
Definition: A simple, repeating four-to-seven chord rock-riff that gains energy and momentum by layering and slightly shifting it's cadence over time. Has been known to cause "out-of-body" experiences in listeners.
Examples: Hawkwind's "Levitation", "Time We Left This World" ( -Orig. "Doremi" version ), Montrose's "Space Station # 5", etc.
Take a four to seven chord rock-riff. Jam with it. Add a "tribal feel" to it. RIFF + JAM + TRIBE = RIFFJAM TRIBE! Get it?
Then build it up "layer-upon-layer". Gradually accelerate the tempo. Let the riff evolve, change and gain momentum ( -by slightly shifting it's chord-change timing and cadence ). Burnish til it glows "incandescent orange". Bring to a pulse-pounding, adrenilin-rushing climax. That's the RIFFJAM TRIBE "formula". Hawkwind's employed this "formula" from time-to-time on some of their songs ( -see the
examples listed above ).
My other songs veer towards the "spacey" and electronic. Head music. Mind music. Like a trip into space minus the NASA booster-rockets. Strap-in for a journey to the other side of your mind...
Electro-tribal music from the "future-past". Combining primal tribal rhythms with space-age electronics. That sums-up the RiffJam Tribe ethic. My upcoming "First Contact" album will set the "template" for future explorations. Check it out if this stuff interests you....
What's that landing in the forest? Curious things caught in "fleeting glimpses". Was that real or not? Those are some of the places "RJT's" music goes. If it "goes bump in the night" ( or ) sends an other-worldly shiver up your spine, "RJT's" music is there. I enjoy being intrigued and WONDERING don't you? A "RIFFJAM TRIBE" MOMENT....
Did U.S. Special Forces clash with aliens at an underground base in 1979'? Are advanced aircraft derived from recovered UFO technology being flown out at Nevada's Area 51? "EYES ONLY" ROCK MUSIC...
The Nevada Test Site's "Area 51" is a secret government reserve the size of Connecticut. What's going on there? U.S. taxpayers fund it's operation yet we're not allowed to know what's going on there?
Curious....
-A MAP OF FEDERAL LANDS "THAT DON'T EXIST"....
Are Crop Circles and the "Face on Mars" wake-up calls for mankind? Is the ET/ "Inter-dimensional" presence benelovent or malevolent?
In 1974 Carl Sagan and S.E.T.I. sent a message into space ( -from Puerto Rico's Arecibo Radio Telescope ). In 2002, this crop circle appears near Britain's Chilbolton Radio Telescope. The year prior, a crop circle adjacent to Chilbolton "answers" CHILBOLTON "CROP CIRCLE" Sagan's 1974 "data-strip" with specifics ( -on E.T. height, mathematics, DNA and location in the universe ).
Is the "Face on Mars" ( -and complex of structures near it ), simply "abberations of light and shadow" or something more tangible and solid?
Are Biblical passages referring to the "Annunaki" and "Nephlihim" ( -and the "corruption" of human DNA by "fallen angels" ) only myths and legends or something more? THE "FACE ON MARS"
And from the dawn of mankind til the present -is all
of this interrelated ( -and still being played-out right underneath our uneducated noses? ).
These are some of the questions "RiffJam Tribe's" music ponders. Have you ever wondered about any of this stuff yourself? DAWN AT STONEHENGE
Could this intricate "Crop Circle" be the work of hedgehogs ( or ) hoaxers? If so, England has some pretty precise and disciplined rodents and drunken revellers!
THOSE PESKY ENGLISH "HEDGEHOGS AT IT AGAIN!
And somewhere in the remote recesses of Amazonia a few "uncontacted" stone-age tribes remain oblivious to the modern world....
A fact that makes me happy.
Riffjam Tribe's first album. The title has many meanings. From mankind's "first contact" with extraterrestrial beings ( -through written and "suppressed" history ), to the modern world's encroachment upon primitive tribes living in the Amazon, to the Native American experience of being overwhelmed by settlers from the
New World. "First Contact" delves into these topics -setting groundwork for future albums.
Spacerock for "Inquiring Minds".
Riffjamtribe project studio ( -in a mess as usual ).
Creative Tech Nerd's editor and Riffjam Triber -Tomm Buzzetta.