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not daft at all (stafford)

duration: 3:39

tempo: 90 bpm

record date: 20130418

instruments:

1 KICK1
2 SNARE9
3 CRSHCYM1
4 HHTAMB
5 ELEBASS1
6 FUZZGTR2
7 SITAR1
8 ORGAN

an unavoidable period (mid-december 2012 through mid-april, 2013) where I was simply unable to work with the fairlight (or to be fair, with much of any music – when your health takes a turn for the worse, no matter how much you may want to play, you simply cannot) – so I waited. the year turned from 2012 to 2013, and suddenly, it was april 2013.

once my health returned, astonished to find that more than four months had passed since I’d done any fairlight sequencing; I set out to make up for this lost time by creating a progressive rock masterpiece, which bears the strange title “not daft at all”. this track, in turn, spurred the creation of the next three individual tracks, each one, made from a theme extracted from this master prog track. my songwriting partner suggested that I take the three main musical themes from “not daft at all”, and develop each one in a different genre – and that is what I did.

the organ and sitar solos sound so perfectly “of a time”, and the melodies just appeared almost by magic – in particular, I’m quite impressed by my ghostly organist whoever he or she may be – they did a spectacular job of “playing” on this piece. uncanny.

“not daft at all” came from nowhere, I just sat down to write something proggy, something that used a wonderfully wonky electric bass sample, and something I felt that I could really excel with, and I think this is one of the most remarkable sequences I’ve created to date – I was fortunate. it is these moments, when music just appears, that we wait for, hope for, and live for – when music arrives, almost or completely fully-formed, and we sit there watching and listening as it arranges itself…

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from music for apps: fairlight pro - an eternal album, track released January 17, 2013
dave stafford: fairlight pro 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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