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The composition in this week’s download, entitled Speech, is about as antithetical to my normal compositional sensibility as anything I have ever written. I have never been a fan, in particular, of so-called prog- rock, most fusion with the possible exception of electric Miles Davis and a few other things, math rock, or anything to do with tricky time signatures. Nevertheless here it is. All of us in Pigpen loved playing this tune, and I suppose one of the things that redeems it for me is that we had the good sense not to solo on the "form”.

In the early 90s, we hosted a few Pigpen plus guests events at the OK Hotel. I found the nerve to ask the great drummer Matt Cameron if he wanted to join us. I picked a couple of tunes and then threw this one in just for kicks. I assumed it would probably be pretty hard for anyone to just look at it and play it- we had been practicing it for months.

For all I knew, Matt, being a so-called rock drummer, didn't even read music. I really had no way of knowing. Well he nailed it first time through and brought something totally different to the song that was absolutely amazing. So after all these years, we will be doing it again with Matt at the OK Hotel Festival at the end of February on Sunday, February 28. Hope to see you there if you can make it and I hope you enjoy the music.

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from 52 Weeks Of Downloads, track released February 3, 2016

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Wayne Horvitz

Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist and electronic musician. In addition to his own work, he is known for his work with Butch Morris, Robin Holcomb, John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Bill Frisell, Sara Schoenbeck, Ron Miles, Peggy Lee, and William Parker just to name a few. ... more

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