San Feliz (track #2 of the Somió release, “Deva”) is now complete, barring levels, volume rides, a little compression and limiting here and there, the swells are not too swell and mastering. OK, so not finished at all really.
My goal with this piece was to create something very lazy and sunny. As I mentioned in another post, “San Feliz” was inspired by long summer days reading Murakami in the garden in Spain. With that in mind, I started by writing an eight bar turnaround with some bluesy chords and just let that roll.
It’s a pretty conventional piece and will probably be the most accessible / least experimental on the album. But there’s always room for one composition like that and – to me at least – it conveys all the memories from last summer, an easy couple of weeks and a genuine “time out” from the day-do-day.
I may also reduce the overall length or add a bridge. It’s a touch repetitive, but then again, I kind of like the way it just drifts along, in keeping with the pace of those afternoons and the feel of Murakami’s writing (can’t remember which book it was, but probably Dance Dance Dance).
I think I’ll leave this for a few days and turn my attention to something much more experimental: Cosecha.
Update: 06/06/09
Final version uploaded. Re-arranged, new instrumentation (Spanish guitar and some pads), remixed and mastered.
Thrilled to say that this track has been selected for PublicSpaces PS010 compilation.
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For the sake of archiving this tune’s development, I’m uploading eight bars from track 2 of Somió release, Deva. The piece is entitled “San Feliz” and inspired by memories of reading Murakami in the garden last year (hence the bluesy chords), swigging ice-cold Coke in the sunshine and the summer I long for!
I’m trying to create a loose downtempo funk mood to reflect my highly relaxed state of mind at the time. These eight bars (repeated with some heavily edited Balinese Bells in the second eight) should give an early indication of how well I’m reaching the intended goal.
Clearly not mixed at all. These are early days.
Thoughts?
San Feliz Teaser (Update 2: 28/05/2009)
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Oh, and here’s San Feliz:
