This is another track I found in my September 2007 output folder. So I opened it and cleaned it up a little bit. Kind of tech-house funk, a genre I stumble into now and then. Anyway, it was an interesting one, don’t even know what poem my wife is speaking to the microphone. It all reminds me of a cat’s life.
Some of the keyboard playing is influenced by Herbie Hancock style funk soloing, or something like that. I don’t even remember why I named the track with that strange title. Oh well. Time flies.
Right-Click to Download Postal Theory of the Woodland Cave
This one is from a couple of months’ ago when I went through a psychedelic rock phase. Still not sure if I will continue with similar music but I have a couple of tracks on the hard disk. In case I get more done it will be released under the Flowers Underneath Fruit name, either album or the band name.
Basically we have up to three guitars with E-Bows wailing. And at the end the typical beatnik poetry reading by a pitch-down voice, including the the last part being heavily flanged. Hey, that’s how you make psychedelic music (and note, no whatsoever drugs used!)
Right-click to Download Wailing Guitars
This was part of a project some years ago to make Sufi music. I’m not a Muslim, but I got fascinated about Sufist music, the whirling ceremonies of the Derwishes, Rumi’s poetry and so forth. You could read more about it at this page.
I still don’t know what to do with this four part Selam series, Sufist music has four selams, each with a specific theme that I tried to compose down.
There were some funny misunderstandings, too. I assumed that derwish music was fast, it’s not, so all four pieces are 150bpm, the third one is 75bpm which is kind of 150bpm.
Each Selam is also long, over twelve minutes each, hence this download is a bigger one.
The compositions have hundreds and hundreds of individual small audio snippets; it’s quite fascinating to look at the project and think who I had the patience to puzzle together all those hundreds of audio pieces into something that is working.
Anyway, one day I figure out how to publish the other three selams.
Next, something psychedelic that happened last autumn.
Right-click to download Selam, Part Two
This is a sample of a forthcoming set of music for a spin-class series to be published via iTunes et rest. The background story is that a friend of mine is a spin-class and aerobics instructor and she wanted me to write 15+ songs for a series of spin-class exercises. She will provide the workout instruction on top of it.
The instructions for me was to write music all the way from slow stuff up to really fast tracks. She never specified what kind of music, which is fun.
This is track 11 of 15. Now afterward listening to it, it’s clear I was inspired by old Art of Noise material including a Debussy-style passages around the 2:15 point. Which makes sense as the Art of Noise musicians made a Debussy homage album. I also wanted it to sound like pushing up a hill.
Next, Rumi-inspired music that I never released as I still don’t know what to do with it.
Right-click to download Workout Z11.
I think I did this song after watching a contemporary British SF movie about traveling to the sun to kick-start it. Or some old ideas from listening to Fripp/King Crimson bubbled up. Anyway, it’s always fun doing E-Bow work on a guitar.
It’s also one of my projects concerning merging guitar music with contemporary electronic music.
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