New music - “Dreams of the Old Country”
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The most recent task over at the Guitar Collective involved composing a piece around a set melody. Now, while it would have been easy to make assumptions about the most appropriate context for this melody (it was written by our Argentinian member, Leandro) I tried to clear my head of any stylistic preconceptions. As it turned out, I started thinking there was something jazzy about it and wrote a chord progression to work in a slow ballad setting, but then started to hear something Balkan/Klezmer about it. Refusing to be frozen by indecision for once in my life, I decided to do both versions and, er… glue them together. ;-)
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:45 pm
You were wearing a yarmulk when you recorded that, weren’t you?
August 4th, 2006 at 2:45 am
I suspect it was a yoghurt. Close.
Steve