Creating this project consumed the better part of two months. Thank you for spending 15 minutes listening to it! 

 

Convolution is a vamp in 5/4 featuring a vintage Rhodes, a Steinway grand and a keyboard bass line. The drum parts were tapped onto a Novation pad and blended with snippets from Yurt libraries and loops built in SoulFi.
Chart: Convolution

Semaphore, recorded in 2010 but massively edited in 2024, features the great Houston drummer Pat Williams. The drum solo was a result of that remix (a layering of different drum takes). The groove was so thick that the other instruments were simply muted to highlight what was happening in his playing.
Chart: Semaphore

Crusader gets it name from H-Town legends, The Crusaders. The track segues into a random cassette recording my parents made during a 1974 radio broadcast when we lived in Belgrade, Serbia–back when Tito ran the joint (Yugoslavia). The piano bit at the end was also on that tape and time-matched to the music.
Chart: Crusader

Quiet Language mashes up the Rhodes, organ, synths and lo-fi beats with audio clips in Korean and Punjabi. I just like the sound of those voices whatever they’re saying.

Late Night Sky pays homage to Brazilian (partido alto, baião), Metheny, video game music and other 80s sounds.
Chart: Late Night Sky

Moogy AF is 33 seconds of shameless synth happiness.

And lastly, Five 13 uses Opus vocal samples played on a keyboard (also used on Late Night Sky) and ends with sounds recorded while walking through the Arboretum. The crunchy gravel competed with an idling freight train. As to the name, 5/13 was my mom’s birthday.

 

All tunes composed and performed by me (except where Pat plays). Recorded at Thinking Dog Studio. Copyright 2024.