All We Have is Today
By miraclemiles on December 2, 2018 11:39 pm
I started this one earlier in the week going for a kind of trip-hop, Massive Attack inspired feel. Then I got distracted by a shiny object and changed directions. The shiny object was an Mbira I've had for years and have always wanted to make a track with. Also known as thumb piano. Maybe other names. Of African origin. I recorded some improvised noodling about and figured I'd put it into my trip hop track. After tapping around some more on drum tracks, this new more global sounding drum beat came about. In the past I would usually keep it all in one track, but maybe I'm growing, or changing because this morning I decided would be best as two tracks, so I'll save the chill synth thing for another week. Proceed to slice the Mbira recordings and tapped some more tracks on the Push, including pitched down one for bass. Added some overdrive for crunch. I think the Pedal effect or some saturation could have been better crunchiness, but oh well. I don't think the Mbira is in key. Closest thing I could guess, with help from the Push's scales modes and converting audio to Midi, was C Locrian scale. Added some vocoderizationalizing from the Mininova for some honey on this biscuit. Pretty sure the title is something I was singing.
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