Songs for EP No. 4
I'm currently working on Ba.Ren.Chi's fourth compilation, which has a projected six, maybe seven pieces on it. Four are basically finished and out preliminarily on Soundcloud. The image of the trees is just me thinking -- a pic I took in California many years ago.
"Attendendo" is something I wrote rather quickly in December 2022, waiting/expecting the new year, which is reflected in the title. It's rather mellow, but the syncopation keeps things moving. Listen on SoundCloud, Jamendo.
Others percolating are "Emergence," which I wrote after passing over a whale in a sailboat in the Adriatic in summer 2024. It's only on SoundCloud. Then there is a clump that came all pretty close together while I was in Trieste last winter. "The Persuaded," "Bells of Trieste," and "Spirale."
Finally, the first snow fall about a week ago had me watching it out the window, and "Snowfall," which is merged with the sound of the tires against the highway as we came home from the airport, was the result.
And over on Bandcamp (a name that always makes me giggle), I've put a revised version of The Faerie and the Demon. The last movement in particular went through some changes. (Click on the title to go there and check it out!)
Ba.Ren.Chi.San
This third album was born in lockdown, with Kaitou, a piece I worked through over two winters, looking out at the snow and ice, wondering what it would be like when it all melted and we came out again.
Would we come out again? We would, I knew, and the piece reflects that determination, the implacable spring thaw. Spring itself would follow, a mad chase of the rivulets everywhere, falling, which is Cadendo. And then a stroll, a strut, through the park because spring and you gotta.
Some happy Exi Maxi, which feels a lot like summer, and finally a little excess in seven, or nana, and why not make a mambo by then, so, yes, the Nana Mambo to take us out.
Track 1. Kaitou: Ice melts away after the winter lockdown, giving way to spring, determined, playful, and wondrous.
Track 2. Cadendo: Racing rivulets, falling spring rain.
Track 3. Prelude and Strut: Prelude takes up the previous and sets up the provius, then strut forward with some attitude.
Track 4. Exi Maxi: Driving ahead in six, which is exi in Greek, so more exi makes it maxi exi. Feels a bit like summer.
Track 5. Nana Mambo: Odd times keep this one fresh and moving, mostly in seven, which accounts for the nana, but it also makes you want to move, which accounts for the mambo. Plus this one had to go last cause of the big finish, which surprised me.
