really enjoyed this with the thick reverb in the background
No idea what's going on there - bit it's thrilling
- there's lots of very wet reverb and reversed sounds there!
Sounds like the undercurrent of a different piece creeping in
That's an interesting perception, and probably helps to underscore why this piece works. The first part is the slide one-off improv. I then repeat that [the section you comment on] reversed and with very wet reverb. While that is playing out, I repeat the first section again, but this time at different pitches and overlapping the reverbed session. So the piece hangs together because it is the same phrases repeated - but it sounds varied because of the differing treatment and placement of those same phrases. Without wanting to compare myself with him obviously, but Ted Maceo's production of some of Miles Davis's recordings showed the way for this type of thing, how by editing you can extend sounds and actually create a composition - something like that had long been done in painting with collage etc.
What a fantasctic piece!
Thank you - that's really appreciated!
Super slide sounds Bro love the touch too magic, Al
top interesting scraping bottleneck exploration
- I could vibe on the string scraping alone!
love this implosion and inversion here..like tumbling backwards through space
It's like how the memory works, somehow -
I like you working in miniature here, and I liked the pressing onset and recession of that other sound.
- I thought a miniature, like those tiny portraits in Renaissance lockets - in contrast to my usual larger canvases, although I have yet to make a really epic caanvas of the size of a Turner and so forth. My longer pieces themselves are just like short films [such as 'Thought of a Rune' which used one of them]. So in filmic terms, this is just a trailer ... and that 'other sound' in a sense betrays the filmic nature. Lorenzo described how the sound made it open then closed - you speak of a recession - John Mac of a tunnel - so the sound created a sense of environment - it is the locket for the miniature, perhaps. This aspect of pitch fascinates me - there are high pitches that only young people can hear - after the age of 14 or so, we can no longer perceive them .... pitch in itself is significant psychologically and organically
Love this atmosphere!
This is almost desolate enough to be accompaniment to the woman vocalist you do stuff with semi-regularly, I forget her name at this hour.
Really creating a blues feeling - wistful and in your face. Hard to describe that kind of blues quality but you recognise it like you've always known it when you hear it. I like the high pitched sounds too. They force you to concentrate while you are carried adrift by the slide guitar.
- as Jimi said, 'blues is easy to play, but hard to feel'. So you struggle to get the feeling. Here I tried to kind of isolate the feeling and present it in it purity ... I put that high pitched tone on the first part to suggest almost a dog whistle - the idea that certain pitches are beyond human hearing - and so point to the relativity of sound - I also wanted to indicate the kind extraneous sounds that come from an amp, kind of exaggerate that. Also makes a sort of 'halo' effect - as the blues feeling is somewhat 'holy', but devilish - it's the antichrist, really.
Nice atmospheres. Spacious then close.
I wanted atmosphere - your observation is brilliant - even in a very short piece I tried to create that sense of change and transition - even with the most minimal means. And I love slide for that as it sends out lots of static and accidentals - if you look at the sound of a slide close up its very rich but quite disorderly, it wants spray and splay and splat and splash
Great little vignette, Bill. What with Blues Thursday and Black Friday, it could be a painful weekend.
Definitely a Stormy Sunday coming
That sounds like a commuter rush!
Cool! That's the right sonic environment - sets the tone for a blues album - this will be the opener
It sounds like you are busking on the Underground, Bill!
great imput - yeah, so right - it's the urban blues alright - do you know that huge tunnel in South Kensington that goes to the museums - that has this kind of acoustic!
I have probably been through it, but it is a long time since I was in London. I do remember the buskers in the underground walkways. It's too cold to busk up north!
credits
from Searching the Blues,
released January 24, 2018
Glass slide on Ibanez AF75-BS guitar
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