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across the veldt (burning)

from music for apps: mixtikl - an eternal album by dave stafford

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recorded 20130905

active / jazz


elements used:

ambient harmonic modulator_genelements 1 synth (2 iterations)
ambient drift supa highs monosynth_genelements 1 synth (2 iterations)
ambient semitone shift chording_genelements 1 synth (2 iterations)
syn5_i3_080a_ambient (4 iterations)
horn1_c3_080a_ambient (2 iterations)
horn2_c3_080a_ambient
horn3_c3_080a_ambient
pipe1_i3_080a_ambient (2 iterations)
vox1_u3_080a_ambient
beat1_d2_108a_worldbeat (3 iterations)
beat4_d2_108a_worldbeat
hat1_dh_108a_worldbeat (6 iterations)
per1_d_084e_funk (2 iterations)
bass repeat_ genelements 1 synth (4 iterations)


once again, a piece comes together very quickly, in a most unexpected way – this one, a bit of spooky vocal with a strange march beat, wonderful synths, wonderful horns – my second jazzy piece – but, the minute the rough form was in place, and I heard it – I knew what it was: it was “across the veldt (burning)” – I could absolutely see the pictures, this had an incredible visual feeling, of africans moving across the veldt, in a drought, I could feel the burning heat – the sound of the song, marching feet, heat, the relentless sun – it’s all there, and I have no idea how I did it – it just happened.

the long, wonderful horn parts, woven so carefully with the pipe and vox sounds, and then the syn5 and the monosynths coming into play – the wonderful world beat drummers – and that’s it – a beautiful march, a never-ending journey across south africa – and a few days after I created this, strangely, I saw a program wherein they visited the veldt – and it was really very cool to see what I had just blindly written about, in the flesh, the veldt is an amazing type of landscape, and in my song, the parched, thin, africans are marching, marching, and marching some more…across the veldt.

in a similar way to the surprise that was “cinematic lovers sway” – this is a very distinct piece, with a slight hint of xtc’s “procession towards learning land” even – just a wonderfully unique and utterly evocative piece, and I feel blessed that it appeared while I was at the steering wheel of mixtikl – and the app gets most of the credit for this one, my part in the process was “listening in amazement” – I really love this application, the more I realise it can do, the more I love it…

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from music for apps: mixtikl - an eternal album, released April 17, 2013
dave stafford: mixtikl application

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dave stafford Stirling, UK

ambient loop guitarist dave stafford performed on stage with robert fripp and the orchestra of crafty guitarists in early 2009, and again with robert fripp and the symphony of crafty guitarists in 2015, and has worked with ambient music and looping for over twenty years. stafford has a rich back catalogue of ambient and loop music, +rock, prog or acoustic crafty guitar music: www.pureambient.com ... more

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