the commons project people at the tate gallery, especially anna and hannah catherine jones for the session they put together which was the inspiration for this track now collected on the download version of musicians of bremen volume four.
originally a group of people humming in unison recorded on a phone in the tate modern. we set our music to this.
once a piece of sound has been recorded it is set free to do other work from that originally intended. horsemouth responded to the notes he could hear in the humming itself (and, later on, the notes in the trumpet solo that leak in from another exhibit). he then played two tracks of guitar in response to it (one tuned daddad and the other dad*ad -* g, f#, f?).
his inspiration here is more the jansch/ renbourn bluesy/ jazzy noodling than his usual american primitive style.
he added a track of the out of tune harmonium playing two adjacent notes so that by interference the correct drone note would be produced (subsequently turned down). howard added some tracks of singing and improvised lyrics and a track of improv on the banjolele (subsequently turned down).
horsemouth was very fortunate in how it turned out (it was fortunate the trumpet came in nicely - horsemouth has no idea what he would have done if it hadn't).
he guesses that an earlier version may exist somewhere with more of the harmonium and the banjolele on it.
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so what is horsemouth up to today? the egg walk and the walking the waste bin down the drive. his mum is off to the village and the forge.
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