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A Ribbon of Iron

from The Poetics of Space by Ivodne Galatea

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This is another medley of sanza music, half on the Hohner Guitaret and half on the Hohner Pianet, which means some are duets. The arrangement is one of contrasts, designed as an answer to the notion that there is one particular dominant style or mode for this wonderful music. They are from different times, locations, tribes and instrument styles. They range from the fairground manic to the sombre.

Some pieces required the singing from the original to be complete, I have substituted an Arturia CS-80v in a vocalish way for those.

The pieces are:

Bamangolosa bachusuwano
kana mano
Dambaza
Mwana aboyi mama
Chipenbere
Msengu
Masangano
Amai Wachauya
Kariga Mombe
Motsimo

The last piece, Motsimo, is in fact three pieces, and is a toponymic designation, because their nature is otherwise uncertain. These are from the journals of Carl Mauch in 1860. So the tunes have been given the feel of a quadrille in the transcription, which I tried to half convey.

The entire performance is put together in a doubly-imaginary landscape, as the collage mixes a dawn- and evening chorus from the wonderfully named Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica in equal parts, which makes for a strange pulsating rhythm throughout.

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from The Poetics of Space, released October 21, 2015
IG: Hohner Guitaret, Hohner Pianet, Arturia CS-80v
Cam Byrd: Rokehan

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Ivodne Galatea Nedlands, Australia

Principally playing original compositions of an ambient nature on the Hohner Guitaret as well as other thumb pianos/finger harps/lamellophones.
Interested in orchestration using field recordings, per the great John Cage's suggestions (1937).
The pieces are all pataphysical book reviews. They consist of musical essays on books of the same title that haven't been written, but should have. ... more

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