Snow Din

by nothing nothings

 music

sean at
nothings dot org

Snow Din is my twelfth "24-hour album" intended to meet the constraints of the Album-A-Day project. It is an an instrumental album, written and recorded in about 6 hours on January 4, 2009.

It is presented here as 53 separate tracks, although the original recording is continuous for 60 minutes, an effect you can recreate by playing them in order if your mp3 player is smart, possibly by using the "stream all" link.

The album is essentially entirely improvised. I began the process by playing the bass non-stop for 60 minutes (during which I would periodically advance to the next effect on my bass multi-effects pedal, having no idea what that would be). Then I recorded a single drum performace that was 60 minutes long. Then I recorded a single track of guitar (although it was actually several separate 10-20 minute takes totalling an hour). A significant amount of judicious editing was applied to the drums to correct errors in them, or to resynchronize them to the bass in places where the bass screwed up or changed unpredictably.

It is awfully noodly.

Snow Din

Stream all mp3s

  1. Power Groove I 1:12
  2. 02 0:29
  3. 03 1:20
  4. 04 0:34
  5. 05 0:35
  6. 06 1:30
  7. Power Groove II 1:49
  8. 08 1:22
  9. Agoro +1 1:34
  10. Snow Din I 0:52
  11. 11 0:54
  12. 12 0:43
  13. Cheese and Tristesse 1:09
  14. 14 1:26
  15. 15 1:05
  16. 16 0:41
  17. Groovy Power 1:45
  18. 18 0:34
  19. 19 1:16
  20. 20 1:00
  21. 21 1:11
  22. Groovy Flower 1:38
  23. 23 1:24
  24. 24 0:25
  25. Agoro -1 0:42
  26. 26 0:30
  27. 27 0:41
  28. Snow Din II 1:03
  29. 29 1:09
  30. Orbiting the Groovy Tower 0:41
  31. 31 0:30
  32. 32 0:57
  33. Yet Another Improvisation in 7/8 1:43
  34. Power Groove III 2:37
  35. 35 1:16
  36. You May Call It Fast 7/8 But To Me It's Slow 7/16 1:24
  37. Surprisingly Enough, This Appears To Be The Only Track On This Album That's In 13/8 1:34
  38. 38 0:53
  39. Groovy Blues 2:08
  40. 40 0:37
  41. Power Groove IV 1:14
  42. 42 0:56
  43. Groovy Grooves 0:42
  44. 44 0:50
  45. Groovy 45 1:10
  46. 46 1:31
  47. 47 1:14
  48. Snow Din III 1:53
  49. 49 1:41
  50. 50 0:58
  51. 51 1:06
  52. 52 0:59
  53. Power Din 1:51

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