Interested in learning guitar, deejaying, beat production, or songwriting? Ananalog founder, Ryan Sarno, is a former/future elementary school music teacher who has developed curricula to teach music theory, history, and practice to youth and adult musicians. Private and small group lessons are available in the Northwest Philadelphia area. Guitar students learn harmonic and rhythmic technique andContinue reading “learn something”
Author Archives: Ryan Sarno
Live and Direct
Sant Saëns Seine will be live at Arts Mission Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX, on Thursday, May 5th at 6:30pm. We’ll mostly play new school jams from Salon Trash and the recent Mediavuelta albums, but expect a few SSS classics for the people. Natalie Sarno joins the group on b a b y g r aContinue reading “Live and Direct”
sister / sister
Two shiny new, sister albums from Mediavuelta are now available at ananalog.bandcamp.com. Love For All, Hate For Some and moonshot feature Mediavuelta’s trademark use of deepcut samples, improbably combined into polyrhythmic loops, with a stronger melodic and harmonic presence than previous albums via Ryan Sarno’s guitars and synths, and Megan Sarno’s vocals.
MFBV, Vol.2: After Tears Comes Laughter
The second volume of the Blue Funk and Mediavuelta collaborative deejay series is up! Get up to get down with a diverse set of outernational soul and funk. Mediavuelta & DJ Blue Funk are MFBV – coming together once again to unify the funky peoples along the I-35 corridor. I’m excited about this mix! TurnContinue reading “MFBV, Vol.2: After Tears Comes Laughter”
Salon Trash
Ananalog Records is proud to share the second Sant Saëns Seine album, Salon Trash. Salon Trash is sixteen alternate reality pop songs, recorded with a Roland sampler, a red SG and a deskful of variously functioning electronics, in Minneapolis bedrooms and a Dallas carport, between 2017 and 2021. Mediavuelta beats, snaking Zoot Horn Rollo /Continue reading “Salon Trash”
Yulelogjam 2020
Merry Christmas, from Sant Saëns Seine and the Ananalog family! This 2020 AD edition makes the fifth Yulelogjam. Downloads are free, and any album sales will be donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Society of North Texas.
It Takes Two
Go listen to the collaborative set DJ Blue Funk and I just released! DJs Blue Funk and Mediavuelta go full Megazord on a two hour set of globetrotting funk. From Japanese cumbia to Balani Show thunder, from Mizell honey to East German satin soul. Beaming directly from their nuclear powered turntables to the satellite phoneContinue reading “It Takes Two”
LOADED / OVERLOADED
The new Mediavuelta beat tape is available! The album is twenty-one sample based beats and two bookending poems. Jack Diller (instagram.com/skoobala) contributed a superbly overloaded album cover.
Nature Designs New Fruit
Five years ago, today, I released my first beat tape, Fade Off The Bigs. Two-hundred and thirty four beats, thirteen albums, a dozen or so guitar solos later, and we are offering a retrospective of the ongoing Ananalog beat project. The download is free. Included is one favorite beat off all twelve Mediavuelta and MFSPContinue reading “Nature Designs New Fruit”
Ananalog Weekly
Check the link on the top right of the page for the weekly, hour long Ananalog radio program. The show will be open format, with an emphasis African, Latin, soul and jazz music. The first two edition are already live. https://ananalog.org/ananalog-weekly-radio-hour/
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