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Oblique House, 15/02/06

by: Children of the Drone

Publication date: 2006-02-15

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

[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 Oblique House, Exeter on 15/02/06.

Notes

Henry - percussion, vocal percussion, acoustic bass guitar
Keith - acoustic bass guitar, mandola, percussion, keyboard
John - acoustic guitar, acoustic bass guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, low whistle, voice, balalaika
Matthew W - saz, acoustic bass guitar, percussion, synthesiser drones, The Purple Lunchbox

The kitchen, Oblique House
Quite a tenuous, fragile session this, particularly the first pieces, so listeners are encouraged to persist until the later stages.

Henry played a simple bassline on the last piece, which John taught him. The Purple Lunchbox only appears on the last piece, and unfortunately it's not really loud enough. John played the balalaika only very briefly on the first piece - it was slightly out of tune and sounds almost flanged as a result. The 'synthesiser drones' were achieved with preset synth sounds and keys gaffer taped down. The usual Oblique House background noises, conversation, doors closing, etc. can be heard at various points.

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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 1^st June 2005. Sessions are usually in two parts - we fill one disc, stop for tea, and then fill another disc.