Kind of an intense week on a number of fronts. The slowness of this piece is a bit of a reaction to that, an attempt to maintain a bit of quiet and space. Guitar: 1960s Univox hollow body (likely a Coily model), tuned in a variant of John Fahey's C tuning. (His was CGCGCE; this is B F# B F# B C#.) Three tracks, just a bit of convolution reverb. A touch of grit from the UA Volt 1.

The title comes from the minor planet 496 Gryphia.

I will do another like this as this doesn't quite work, but it's a good sound.

This was mostly born of an exercise of trying to make a track based on Sus chords. Most of it is Sus2 chords that I get going down the circle of fifth and then back up. I then resolved to the major chord for the final section.

And then bird call samples. Why not?

this is simultaneously very experimental and not at all

this is the last song of the first half of the year.

I was struggling to get my feat beneath me again midway through making it..

so I guess the focus is mostly on the sound levels..