It’s another episode of my music podcast “Colin’s Music Corner”. I recently found that there are two other podcasts with this name at podcastindex.org, although they each only have one episode. Still, I want to be somewhat unique! I will start using the new name in the podcast introduction in episode 4.
Last week’s episode included three improvised tracks that featured guitars affected by delays, loops, pitch-shifting, and sampling. A pedal called the Red Tensor Panda (check out the linked Bandcamp page with tracks by other artists) was used for the instant sampling and pitch shifting sounds. It’s a wild pedal, and sometimes I can’t tell who is playing who. It is sort of like a duet partner.
This week, I’ll be playing a hollow bodied electric guitar in a more bluesy/jazzy vein. In fact, you might hear me playing a couple of notes of “Summertime” and then shying away from it. The track slips in and out of a set meter, with a descending line in 12/8 being the strongest feel that’s tied to the main rising theme/riff. Somewhere in the middle I pick up a slide to create those whispery timbres that make up the track “Chandra” on Permission to Feel, as well as using delay to create a massed field of blues guitar players – sort of like if Xenakis took over the scoring for the film Midnight Run but still had to use blues guitar licks. Haha!
After that, a minimalistic, rhythmic synth track I’ve named “Time Curves”. I recorded this last year, and wanted to include it on the album, but it lost out to my obsession with getting the album track sequence just so.
Eventually, I’ll select and master my favorite tracks in this podcast for higher fidelity and place them on Bandcamp.
