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Montague

By onezero on March 31, 2024 9:01 pm

Quite a busy holiday weekend, so I stuck with a familiar approach: the Univox in Bb F Bb F Bb C, and collaging things together. The first tracking session late Saturday gave me the opening section and a brief variation, but I ended up discarding a lot of the other things I'd written--the sections were too busy, which happens when I don't have much of an idea. Sunday's tracking session was stronger, giving me the B section and middle section, which sharp ears might detect as in a different key from the first theme.

No pedals this time, just straight to the UA Volt. There's the usual convolution reverb and compression/eq on the stereo.

The title comes from the minor planet 535 Montague, which now has me thinking of Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue," though the minor planet was named after Montague, MA (by a German astronomer).

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this is so pretty

Very good. A lot of air in your music. Something I should think of more often.

emily wrote:

this is so pretty

Thank you, emily!

Q-Rosh wrote:

Very good. A lot of air in your music. Something I should think of more often.

Thank you! I have a habit of pausing at the ends of phrases or bars. That was something Tom Verlaine did, and probably seeped in for me by that route. (Tom had a history with the saxophone before he picked up guitar, and he'd commented on getting used to that as the space for the breath in playing wind instruments.) It's not a bad thing, to think of our music as breathing.

onezero wrote:

I have a habit of pausing at the ends of phrases or bars. That was something Tom Verlaine did, and probably seeped in for me by that route. (Tom had a history with the saxophone before he picked up guitar, and he'd commented on getting used to that as the space for the breath in playing wind instruments.) It's not a bad thing, to think of our music as breathing.

can totally see (hear) this now that you mention it. i love that! and i love the idea of music breathing, something i've been working on as well.
another lovely and calming track from you  heart

Sometimes a raw guitar tone is exactly what you need and I'm glad you did that here. It sounds great, and the B theme makes this rich and interesting throughout. And yeah, the "breathing" in phrases makes it more emotive, indeed.

There's a small bicycle manufacturer called Montague Bikes that makes full-size foldable bicycles. I have one of those, so that's another interpretation of the title!

This is very nice, feels almost inquisitive.
- Raioh

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