I had been reading a book about Germany, and their role in world war two, and, being of German heritage, I felt a lot of guilt. I recorded this piece, mixed it, and, days later, listened to it, and heard a stark, German soundscape , I thought, jeez! this is friggin’ harsh, stark, menacing! all the stereotypes I had had for all things German. I thought to myself, “Well, this came out of me, nothing to do but laugh.” and there it was, German laughter.
I used a simple “pad” distortion, with heavy pans, simple piano, and an old stratocaster, a whiff of reverb on the piano.
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We reached out to 100 or so of our closest recording artist friends to make an mp3 CD of music and discussions around the making of each track. The full album is available as a free download on the Internet Archive. An index is HERE on dabodab linking to pages of discussions. Discussions Vol. 2 is open for recordings. Submit your discussion HERE.
