new song: "drunk potato harrassing a fine woman"

haven't had much time to do music these last couple weeks. i'm back at my parents' house for a bit until my wife, son and i move out to hawaii, so it's a fairly busy/stressful time and will probably continue to be so for a while. but i did manage to get a song done that i started before i left japan.

the trombone part was just improvised by itself first and everything else added later. i always record trombone with my clip-on mic, and while the freedom of not being tied to a mic stand is nice, you're still limited somewhat in that you can't just wander around the apartment aimlessly while recording... unless you put your zoom h4 in your pocket with your clip-on mic plugged into it, which is what i did. the trombone also obviously has some pitch-shifting going on a-la jon hassell. i was also into half-valves with my f-trigger around that time, so a lot of that showed near the end of the solo.

for the other parts, i mostly just messed around with some loops pitched down a few octaves, used arcdev's et-200 delay as i often do, etc., but i also got out an udu i have here at my parents' house and laid down a slammin' track with that. i was never a terribly skilled percussionist, but i think it added something nice to the song. i also doubled it with a pitch-shifter an octave down to add a little bass.

so yeah, enjoy this song or suffer the consequences.