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"nightly" was a really on-the-nose repeat of what i had done with sub letting - didn't want to waste the space the melodica had taken up in my luggage lol so i had to use it for at least one weeklybeat. same kind of deal - just a phone recording of the room: melodica improvised over 2-chord ambient track (i won't say "loop" because it has irregularity/variation) which is playing through the speaker, and with the door open to record the sound of traffic outside - done in 1 take, pacing around the room. i would edit/fix some things but meh, this type of thing is better with the imperfection left in. so it's just the one take with a little bit of delay added to smooth it out, and some compression and stereo balancing. nightlybeats. the crosswalk beep at the end wasn't added - it was part of the original recording too, and i think it's pretty cool how the timing of that worked out: the traffic slowed and stopped for someone to cross right after the background track faded out and the piece was done.

the two chords in the ambient track don't always alternate at even intervals - it was some unfinished track i had made previously, and i was beefing it up with reverb and stuff hoping it would lead to some inspiration for the week's project (which obviously it did). so i don't remember exactly what's going on in the original track, but i think it has layers going forward and in reverse, which is why sometimes it stays on one chord longer than the other. and so i was trying to play catch up/hang back with the melodica as it went along. but i am glad i captured it like that without thinking too much. not that it's a challenging set of chords to improvise over anyway lol, the whole thing is just diatonic f minor so you can't really go wrong. and yeah the tuning is absolutely terrible haha. don't listen if you have perfect pitch.

the coda jam from "sub letting" reappears at the end, transposed and remixed. really on the nose lol, but that's fitting, because i have this tendency to try to recreate memories, and life doesn't work that way, as i am continually learning. but it's kinda fun to have this little "theme" to represent this place. the photo is from the same night this was recorded, nothing special just a snapshot of the place & time. bittersweet: almost time to leave my home away from home, here. thanks for the good times.