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Above the Clouds

from The Permanent Way by Ivodne Galatea

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This is a performance of steps I-III of the great Mbira cycle. It features a Pianet duet (kushaura and kitsinhira roles) of Nhemamusasa, Dande and Bukatiende.

- The first piece Nhemamusasa (“Cutting branches for a temporary shelter”, made famous by the Penguin Café Orchestra) is possibly the best known piece of mbira music. It is played on the tonic of the mbira, and has the classic feature of being to be seen as beginning on any one of the pulses of the music. The glorious soaring tunes so justifiably famous quite often comes emerges from the gentle ambling motion of the two voices—tunes that are (as Dumi said, “present but not obious”).
- Dande beginning on the second degree of the scale, is named for a location in Northern Zimbabwe, the birthplace of the spirit Nehanda. It is a piece wherein the kutsinhira part is essentially the kushaura part nearly identically one beat delayed—this makes for a prot-form of the modern ubiquitous use of the delay.
- Buktiande (also Mukatiende) means “Come on let’s go!” and begins on the third degree of the scale. It is frequently played as a prelude to dawn in all-night ceremonies to rally the spirits.

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from The Permanent Way, released January 4, 2016
Ivodne Galatea. Hohner Pianet Model T, Strymon El Capistan and Deco tape emulators.

Freesounds used:
daveincamas - Thunder - www.freesound.org/people/161519/daveincamas/
graybaker - Knife River Surf - www.freesound.org/people/196387/graybaker/
kangaroovindaloo - Fryers Dawn and Dawn Fryers Forest www.freesound.org/people/182696/kangaroovindaloo/ and www.freesound.org/people/147538/kangaroovindaloo/
inchadney - Fireplace - www.freesound.org/people/72758/inchadney/
sclolex - Light Rain With Thunder - www.freesound.org/people/237213/sclolex/

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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.
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