Curlew
By onezero on May 17, 2026 8:19 pm
It's been a few weeks since I used the $60 Univox for a track, so here's an arpeggio-heavy one. The first part I recorded (the arpeggiated theme at the beginning) turned out to be in 5/4, so I went with that where I could. As a rock-marinated person from small times, I kept falling into 4/4 and 6/4 in places, but I liked the interplay with the 5/4. Also inevitably, I ended up tracking a couple parts in 11/4. Is there a time signature I didn't use? (Yes, there are time signatures I didn't use here.)
Most of these tracked sections ended up long, and of course the 11/4 and 5/4 pairing wouldn't complete a full cycle before 55 measures, so there was a bit of a challenge in making these sections feel complete without feeling overlong.
Three tracks of Univox Coily hollowbody in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning, no effect pedals. (I did try using my Montreal Assembly Count to Five here, but there's already so much going on, it didn't work in the ensemble. It would work as a solo guitar thing, though.) There's the usual convolution reverb send and the eq/compression/limiting on the stereo mix.
The title comes from the 646-ft. prominence of the Curlew Mountains.
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Nice work!