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Children of the DroneSt. Mary Arches, 06/02/08 (February 6, 2008)

[If you're unfamiliar with Children of the Drone, the series of compilations will provide a better overview than these individual sessions, which can be quite 'unrepresentative'.]

Improvised music, recorded at St. Mary Arches church, Exeter on 06/02/08.


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Artist/Composer: Children of the Drone
Date: 2008-02-06
Source: Zoom H2 digital recorder
Keywords: Psychedelic; Organic; Improvisational post-modern alternative folk; improv; Ambient; Atmos and Drone; Drone, Ambient; Lo-Fi; Free Psych-Folk; lofi; improvisation; improvisational; Devon; Exeter; drone; droning; jamming; psychedelia

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Notes

Simon - laptop/electronics Richard - electric bass guitar Henry - percussion Keith - electric guitar John - acoustic and electric guitars, mandola, vocals James T - keyboard, percussion Mick - electric guitar Henry was just getting used to his new HR-2 recorder, so the levels were set a bit too high (hence the mild distortion on the drums and louder sections). St. Mary Arches church, Exeter All our tracks get uploaded with the default title "untitled" since, as a collective, we have no straightforward way of deciding on anything! We are inviting listeners to suggest more interesting titles for our pieces. If any occur to you, please leave a little review (it's easy - see the link below) in which you suggest them. You can tell us what you think of our music at the same time. Any suggested titles we like may end up getting adopted. File names encode recording information, as follows: "010605-d2t1x2-2130to2412.mp3" would be excerpt 2 from track 1 of minidisc 2 (running from 21:30 to 24:12 of that track) recorded during the session on 1st June 2005. Sessions are usually in two parts - we fill one disc, stop for tea, and then fill another disc. Children of the Drone homepage The Spring - Matthew W's 'audio blog'               contact: info@childrenofthedrone.net

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Reviewer: prof. raphael appleblossom - - December 23, 2008
Subject: promising start to the year
t1 starts with promising feedback-y noise and church organ sounds...wanders around a bit aimlessly, but interesting amalgam of sounds - spanish guitar, fuzz guitar, hand percussion, piano

t2 gets more lively, choppy rhythm and warped out sounds suggest there are turntables involved, but mostlikely Simon up to his laptop biz. Something quite gorgeous happens around 4:20...gradually goes a bit 'techno' (as techno as COTD have ever gone!)

t3 starts wonderfully warped combination of electronic and acoustic sound, all very atonal/arhythmic...and it stays interesting for almost 10 minutes

t4 some distortion evident as this is quite loud - very chaotic...electronic pulses and disjointed rhythm

t5 Spanish guitar, bass and spring drum, gives way to something contemplative and quite interestingly atonal

t6 more nice mellow contemplative spaces shot through with weirdness...ends nicely in laughter

t7 the inevitable reggae groove track! But that's quite nice but quite enough by 6m when vocals come in

t8 more reggae groove...but then warps out nicely. Ends in semi-ironic djembe freakout and reassuring laughter.