With a very busy end-of-week and weekend, I was able to wedge in just a couple short tracking sessions, and a late arrangement/edit cycle. This one's just three tracks of PureSalem Mendiola into the UA Volt-1, with a touch of convolution reverb and the usual stereo compression.

I'm kind of neutral about this one--the stronger theme only came about in the last Sunday afternoon tracking, and earlier sessions had a bunch of wandering things that didn't make the final cut. It has a pleasant enough vibe, though.

The title comes from IC 506, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Hydra.

I am at an airport waiting for my plane so I recorded this filler of a track, using a drum, simple synth and a recording of the waves on the Mediterranean Sea.

I did sort of want to make this one longer, but I didn't want to just end up repeating it.. so I decided not to. I think it maybe is a little repetitive.. but since it's pretty short anyway, it's not that big of a deal. The longer notes coming in at the end is the direction I would have taken it in if I made the song longer..

Still, pretty cool imo.

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