Instrumentation on this piece is in line with what I've been doing: three guitars, this time with the PureSalem Mendiola in standard tuning. I wanted to shake things up a bit, though, so I began with this first theme: a melody and partial harmony line with an accidental in it, so I'd have to work around that note without my default chordal solutions.

I recorded this in two quick tracking sessions Wednesday night and Thursday night. Getting it all to work together took a bit of editing in shuffling parts around, but there were only a few problems to solve at the note level. (In one case, dropping in a chord from a different take, and in a few others, prepending a couple strumming attacks when I'd strummed before the bar line at the beginning of recording a phrase.)

The earliest stuff I'd tracked had the vintage circuit on the UA Volt, which you can hear on the first chords in the first theme, and in a few other places. Other parts sounded better clean, so I turned it off after that. Otherwise, there's convolution reverb and compression/eq on the stereo main.

The title is from Proxima Centauri, which is object 551 in the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars

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