A vibey little piece in modified Fahey tuning. Wednesday night I had a thought to collect some weekly pieces to release for Bandcamp Friday, pulling together 10 pieces from earlier this year. Most of these are on the PureSalem, but I was drawn to the feeling of the Univox hollowbody in Bb F C tuning, and decided to use that this week.

I'd had a thought of using a lot of processing on this one, but in actually tracking, the music just...appeared, and it didn't seem right to mess it all up. A few of these measures are short, and timing is a bit elastic in places, but it flows.

No inline effects, just some convolution reverb send, and multiband compression/eq on the stereo out.

The title comes from the port town of Passage West, on Ireland's R610 road.

This one came together quickly, which tends to happen when the initial idea(s) are strong, they pull the different sections together easily. Without a strong initial idea, the music is more nebulous; it could be shaped in a number of ways, and finding the best alternative requires a lot of fiddling. This one, happily, fell into place, beginning with the first motif.

Three tracks of Univox hollowbody in Bf F C tuning, straight into the UA Volt. The usual convolution reverb send appears, as well as multiband compression/eq.

The title comes from a road that intersects PA-601.

I've been getting the sense of changing things up a bit, and this piece is both a different guitar ($35 baglama-tuned Heit Deluxe) and the re-emergence of electric bass guitar. The guitar is tuned GgDDAa, so the outer courses are a fundamental + octave string, with the inner course at unison.

As often happens when I have an abbreviated time for tracking (short sessions Friday and Saturday nights), I end up with a lengthier editing session on Sunday. Still, it kind of hangs together. The notion of adding bass came to me Saturday after the first tracking of just guitar. With the octave courses and unison course, this guitar sounds fairly thick, and takes up a lot of the sonic spectrum in its range...but that leaves available frequencies in the bass range.

No inline effects, but there's a convolution reverb send from each track, and compression/eq on the stereo mix.

The title comes from minor planet 594 Mireille.

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.