Sunday, July 08, 2007

Coal Dust

Back to something more experimental - this week's episode was meant to be a jam over some pentatonic motifs, but I ended up throwing the improv out for a fairly straight up rendition of Cumberland Gap. The melody and the harmony/motifs are in two different keys, though, which gives the overall a slight dissonance that comes off pretty well. That kind of harmonizing is indeed old news for jazz, but I doubt it's been done before in the rarefied field of ambient/trance bluegrass. But you know, I could be wrong - Earl gets pretty far out sometimes.

The beat is 6Hz again. Sorry if that's boring - I've been mellowing out so well to the past few episodes that it seems like a shame to change it up yet.

Coal Dust

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