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Fiendish Flights
of Fancy
liner notes : 2008 | music disclaimer
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This is my foray into an imagined
film soundtrack. No specific visuals - no story to tell, just
the music that might go behind one.
This is a slightly more eclectic
mix of ambient/minimalist/instrumental songs (soundtrack-type
tunes) than 2006's "Slumber" which was an album intended
to help the listener fall asleep.
Drum loops, Irish tin whistle,
electric guitar and Spanish-inflected classical guitar join my
usual acoustic guitar beds on the new recording. The only human
voice is that of Father Morgan White, priest of Our Lady of Victory
Catholic Church in Paris, Texas, reciting and chanting the Lord's
Prayer in Latin (Pater Noster).
My son, Jonah, wrote and performed
the chord progression for "Pater Noster."
The visual of film has always
inspired me - even films not created, just  scenes
and images in my mind - to create music that would be great backdrop
and ambience. It's the only type of music I've created where
I feel like a true artist adding layers with no boundaries, no
expectations, no worrying if people will understand the lyrics
(because there are none). Crafting something is to take the usual
tools and elements and make something out of them that is familiar.
Art is creating something that hasn't existed before.
Ambient founding father Brian
Eno (most known as a U2 producer) said: "Ambient Music is
intended to induce calm and a space to think. Ambient Music must
be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without
enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is
interesting."
Gear/technical info:
- Dell laptop recording with Sonic
Foundry's Vegas Video 3.0
- USB M-Audio interface with no
preamps
- Behringer condenser mic
- effects are all on-board in
Vegas
- cheap classical guitar (used
to be the wife's, I stole it from her)
- 1975 Yamaha acoustic, 1977 Alvarez
acoustic
- Ibanez Artcore AS73 hollowbody
electric
- Behringer V-Amp 2
- Ludwig Accent Combo drums, Sabian
B8 cymbals
- Yamaha S03 for all synth and
keyboard sounds
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