Anansi Boys
By Kedbreak136 on February 11, 2024 11:41 am
Is that the track I love the most, musically? Absolutely not.
BUT
I like it because it is a real diary of this week. It somehow captures multiple elements of the week.
In no particular order:
1. I have been reading Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, which is in the same universe as American Gods. Magic, beautiful, inspiring, whimsical, just like Neil knows how to do. I went for this jazzy swampy feeling of Florida, and with the tiger making an appearance as well.
2. The riff, played by the mute trumpet, actually is a riff that was inspired by Queens of the stone age and that I used to play in a more, let's say, "raucous" way on the guitar. But it felt at home with a jazzier feel on this track. I went to watch QOTSA this week in Tokyo so I found it appropriate.
3. The door opening/closing is something I did in a track from 2020, (the beast of gevaudan, i think). Yesterday, on my way to Yokohama's Chinatown for the lunar year, I passed in front of a coffee where I recorded that 2020 track and i had to kinda incorporate it in.
Anyway, I kinda like it, though it feels like it still missing a little something.
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