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"Now Here and Nowhere" has been composed in a 3 weeks period, when I was in a forced break while mixing BARONG (2nd album).  Graphics from the book of the Hopi |
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Meanwhile this sudden and silent pause, I found myself doubting about creating new material as good as the one I was mixing... So I decided to try to compose right there, simply and without any theme or main idea. The next pieces would follow by overflow, the ideas that could'nt be included into the piece in progress would be the main theme for the next song and so on |
| After recording a dozen of pieces, I had to go back to the mixing of the BARONG album. I thought to myself that those recordings would only be demos and i would have to re-record it. But when the time came to work again on this new album, I was pleased to find that most of those tracks were good because they had captured the full spirit and inspiration of that precise moment They had a Zen ambiance and the arrangements were light and aerial instead of the usual density that caracterise Dragon-off's music. So, I only had to work on some of the pieces who only needed a final touch to finish the album... |
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Now Here : Very ambiant and aerial, this piece is a "clin d'oeil" to Sergio Leone western films (Ennio Morricone) with it's wistled melody, banjo solo and electric guitar. Mp3: Now Here |
Pat Kalimba : This piece first appeared as a Sequencer exercice given to my students, using kalimba samples. One of my student, Patrick Maltais, composed a theme who sounds very similar to dragon-off music... Patrick proposed me to use this hip-hop riff for Dragon-off newest album. I restructured the piece and orchestrated with guitars, lyre, and indonesian chants to give it a world-hip-hop flavour. Mp3: Pat Kalimba |
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Kecak Chant : Composed around a rhythm taken from a specialised electronic music magazine, with restructured kecak voices that I've recorded in Bali, weaved of mandolins, this piece goes into the deepest of humanity's heart Mp3: Kecak Chant |
 Tempura |
 Papuik (flute from Bali) |
Mood Batak : A melody borrowed from a Batak Karo singer of Sumatra is mixed with my singing and orchestrated with lyre, Papuik (indonesian flute), mandolin, tempura and a banjo solo... Mp3: Mood Batak |
Clap Town : A very rhythmic neo-flamenco piece with classical guitar and banjo... (andalouse style). Mp3: Clap Town |
 Banjo |
 One sting Lyre |
Lyre Land : One of the most ambiant piece in a happy Major tonality where the lyre is in "ostinato" and the vocal harmonies are in deep contrast with a cougar complain. Mp3: Lyre Land |
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Doom : Inspired from the book of the Hopi, first North American Indians, the vocal game between real and synthetized voices put us into an aerial Amerindian life... MP3: Doom
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 Hopi Corn |
 Mandolin |
Beat Nick : Here's a sweet blend between styles... On a hip-hop rhythm alterns a rock riff and a celtic melody where a mandolin, violin and guitar play hide and see. Mp3: Beat Nick |
Holy Owl : Prog rock style, guitars dialog with guttural and percussive chants singing: Holy Owl, living on the mountain road... Holy Owl, living with the indian soul... Mp3: Holy Owl |
 Symbol Hopi of the spirit of the earth |
 Quatro |
Wild Wicked World : This experimental rock piece uses electro-acoustic sounds (University archives) in the way of creating very strange ambiances, full of funny little sounds (like insects), that arise into a kind of energic Russian Ska played on a guitalele (blend between guitar and ukulele) and a Quatro. Mp3: Wild Wicked World |
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