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Notes about notes... · Apr 26, 04:10 PM

Remembering:

I used to covet a flugelhorn.

when I first played it was guitar, bass guitar, and I thought I should have a second instrument… I still love the declarative yet languid almost mellifluous yet flexible sound… sonorous is the lazy adjective I suppose… so it appears again in my recording…. that I work on today.

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Listening to…..

A music that is both complex and easy. In order to reveal more on repeated listening, it almost hides its true nature on its first exposure. Come closer, this sound is harmonious, will integrate with not only movement and silence, but also the clatter and chatter of multi-faceted post-modern life, maybe a splinter of peace in the midst.

That’s my impression as I playback.. a swirling eddying sound that subtly shifts mood but like a meandering muscled river never lets up its purpose.

Contrasting the 16 bit recordings — mono — that form the base of these, with 24 bit and wide stereo overdubbed elements.

Live recordings often working two or three instruments simultaneously, as it were, i.e. piano and percussion, and a drone held on the synth, moving between piano and synth with LH whilst keeping groove with RH etc.

Integrating more sophisticated synth sounds with the very naive Poly 800mkII used live.

Layering up mysterious drones like it’s a pre ambient experimental recording from 1980.

Pseudo voice like textures wrapped around pseudo and processed tabla and madal et al. Conga, bogo, 909, drum set, djembe, gamelan, fretless.

Voices of dancers, implore, squeal, guide, feet too, squeak, thump, across the reverb laden floor, from RH speaker to LH…

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Naming…..

Dark Earth
Improvised Requiem For Pearl
Still Place
Tuning a Soul
Possibility
With Clarity
Clay Clusters
Some Helpers
Goodness
Endless Mansion
The Neigborhood Dubhouse
A Narrative Of Paradise
Ancient Flow
Geology

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Also listened to my old singer/songwriter work today; feels real to me…

music flows, love flows too

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