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Midsummer Miscellany, 2009

by: A Tiny Window

Publication date: 2009-00-00

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Topics: saz, baglama, Avebury, Wiltshire, solstice, summer solstice, concertina, Red Dog Green Dog, Kent, Cork, Ireland, statistics, statistical, statistical funk, lofi, lo-fi, psychedelic, psychedelia, jam, jamming, Nusphere, didg, didgeridoo, didgeridu

A couple of multitrack experiments, some rough solo saz recordings from Avebury just after summer solstice and part of an electronic piece by Nusphere involving my saz playing.

Notes

Matthew - saz (1-6), shaky egg (2)
Andy Ra - 12-string acoustic guitar (1)
Jim Penny - concertina and ridiculous vocals (2)
Tall Paul - didgeridoo (6)
Dave Prentice (aka Nusphere) - electronics/production (6)

1. recorded in West Cork (guitar) and East Kent (saz)
2. recorded in France (concertina/vocals) and East Kent (saz)
3. recorded in All Saints Church, Alton Priors, Wiltshire on 23/06/09
4-5. recorded in West Kennet Long Barrow near Avebury, Wiltshire on 23/06/09 (between tourist incursions)
6. saz part recorded in East Kent, 12/08

West Kennet Long Barrow - photo by Ben909
The guitar part on track 1 was salvaged from an old tape or MiniDisc Andy sent me quite some time ago. A 1m40s section has been looped and my saz overdubbed.

The 'lyrics' on track 2 are taken from a theoretical statistics paper which I had been proofreading...the back of one page got used as scrap paper for a note I wrote to Jim, which led him to the idea for this track. He created a piece involving concertina and layered vocals (what he called "statistical funk") on a borrowed four-track, sent it to me, and I overdubbed saz and percussion. Jim's part of Red Dog Green Dog.

Track 6 is part of a longer mix involving my saz, Paul's didg and Dave's electronics. My saz part was originally recorded over some beats Dave had produced (not audible here).

A Tiny Window
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