14 – Night Falls Fast Finally

Here are all the six parts of “Night Falls Fast”, it’s as far as I can go without a real orchestra. Very limiting and there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors in this piece.  Why don’t I work with a real orchestra?  Simple, I’m just hugely afraid that I can’t do it. I’ll get over it because I need to.

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13 – Hong Kong Funfair

I once put an album out which was largely pretty terrible.  I tried to avoid all of the choices that I would normally make and force myself to do things differently.  The album cannot be named for reasons of personal pride, but after randomly listening to this track I found I that I rather liked it.

Some words of warning: this is not a slow, meditative, calming minimalist piece. It’s the opposite.  I have future plans for maximalism but this wasn’t part of it.

So, it’s a field recording of my trip to a Hong Kong Funfair with my friends (and ex-partner), edited, layered up over the course of three years with appropriately paced techno beats, adding the magic of occasional strings to provide a nice juxtaposition (the strings are kind of slapdash, I wanted to surprise myself) and finally throwing the whole thing into reverse for good measure.

It’s supposed to sound like a funfair, perhaps with the addition of some serious drugs.

Best listened to through headphones.

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