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soups & proofs

by aux phoenix & Jason McNamara

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Lurching Proofs 02:10
2.
Soups Perpetual, Primordial and Tomato 01:50

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A few years ago, Jason spent some time in a studio recording various types of drum sessions, and handed a copy of them to myself for use in making tracks. Finally in the past year I got around to making some things with them. Experimenting with some new instruments I'd been practicing, I wrote a riff on the Moroccan guembri (aka sintir) to a 13/8 drum pattern we had jammed on before in Jason's live ensemble Pulsating Organism. This became 'Lurching Proofs'!

I'd also been playing a Turkish oud, and wrote 'Soups Perpetual, Primordial and Tomato' with it using another drum track from Jason. I decided to see what it might sound like if I doubled up the oud with a fuzzed out guitar (using fretlets for playing the microtonal notes) and I think it made a pretty interesting sound. Playing around with what I'd recorded, I found an interesting 'alternative groove' in a section of Jason's drumming which was very reminiscent of north African rhythms, so I had some fun building up percussion layers in the second half to emphasise that, using qraqebs and zills and other additional percussion layers, and flipping the downbeat to make a pattern inspired Gnawa music and Yemeni traditional music.

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released September 1, 2023

James Strain - Bass, guitar, synths, oud, guembri (sintir), percussion, production
Jason McNamara - Drum kit

Artwork created with the assistance of OpenAI Dall-E
Layout by James Strain

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hip hop/jazz/prog producer, DJ & musician
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