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Rhode test is an old composition. It is difficult to remember where the ideas and inspiration came from. I do know it is from the same period as Road-detest. It may have even come from the same original idea. Who knows?

It was a very basic track, just a sketch, when I returned to it recently. It had developed somewhat since then, and I wanted to hear it on a few different stereo systems before release. So it was exported, made into an mp3 and listened to in various places. I had every intention of going back and tweaking. That never happened. By making the track a coherent entity, I had breathed life into it, I had set it free.

Rhode test

Road-detest

So, there are tunes that get left behind. There are also compositions that evolve. Gas boot was another piece of work that was difficult to find a way into after being left for so long. This time, though, it gave birth to a new track.

In the process of writing a tune its possible to find a new groove while working on a small section. The groove hooks you, then gets added to until, all of a sudden, there is a new track being developed. The original track is left behind and the new tune grips you until it is finished. Miniseries is the culmination of this evolutionary process.

Gas boot
Miniseries

Another example of this process in action can be observed in the the tracks Lovely and Lovlier from the archives.

Sometimes projects get left behind. There may be a flurry of new creative activity and the project is slowly forgotten. It slips down the recent items list until it eventually drops off the bottom. Not until all the new projects are done and dusted do these forgotten tunes get some attention. The problem is that things have moved on. It is a project from another time. Some of the energy is missing and can't be gotten back.

This is one of those tunes.

Poly acht hundert

Ok all, here's a new one. This was heard first during the last Fenducci live set around the festive season 06, albeit in prototype form. Its finished now, its on the podcast, and you can download it here. Its another one featuring our friend and sometime guitar collaborator, Mr David Philp. Its called Uncle Copa and Dave

Cheers

Troy