No. 15 was created during the summer and fall of 2008 in The Hague.
It is not exactly instrumental, but it is the first album I dropped the use of lyrics.
It's basically influenced by my Dutch mushroom trips up to that point… I was thinking about continuation, what leads to what in terms of flow, and changes that actually continue the same line of thought. Also, it's allot about listening while knowing that somebody is messing with you.. So, these days, when you can just skip a track.. Well... It's meant to be listened as one thing.
Actually, the subject here is a comparison between two ways of work. One is the act of dubbing myself again and again over a period of 3-10 minutes. It means repeating the same timeline again and again and adding more sounds to the whole as I'm listening.
The other method of work involves triggering several long recordings with the keyboard (as playing piano) in one take, mixing between them at the same time, changing their speed, and manipulating them in different ways.
This album, as No. 14, was made mostly with a digital setup I was working on (Abelton 6 and Kontakt), that consisted of several samplers with extensive recordings of pianos, my own voice, and chopped up bits from other songs and sessions, slowed down and manipulated in different ways (like in the last two songs Past Samples and voice on Relax-I Know).
All the drum kit silly sounds are toy instruments played a channel at a time. (one take is kick, another is snare). I also play a set of Cow-Bells that my brother Sar got me from Mali, and a toy ukulele I got from Sivki Menchel.
The track "Sharing the Overdubbed Thought" features my neighboring friends in Builderdijkstraat, DH - Ofer Smilansky's voice and miraculous ukulele abilities, as well as Blandine Smilansky's first Hebrew words, AND shaker!
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