Today’s download is entitled 55 (6), which is, in fact, a working title - sort of.
This is a rough mix, close to finished, of a project started a few years back, entitled “Snowghost” (at least for now). Essentially Brett Allen, who has a studio named Snowghost, in Whitefish Montana, offered me some free studio time in exchange for a performance for a house concert of sorts.
I talked Geoff Harper and Eric Eagle into joining me, and we spent 4 or 5 days recording a lot of tracks, mostly sketches. The original music called "55 (6)" was part of a series of pieces I wrote for string trio, all very brief, as part of my “55: Music and Concrete” project.
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Here we take this simple motif and put it in a different sort of trio: bass, drums and piano. Almost all the tracks from these recordings include piano along with live piano processing, and in some cases overdubs.
Eric Eagle and I have been working ever since, in fits and starts, to finish the project, and all the tracks are in various states of limbo, waiting for some free time in both of our schedules.
As I wrap up a year of 52 downloads, this one points to the future instead of the past, and as always I hope you enjoy the music.