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January Collage

from Delta Drone by Uncle Hassell

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January Collage (16:03)
While going through Uncle Hassell's archives, I found a 7-inch reel of Scotch 207 tape (with its distinctive bouquet reminiscent of a mixture of rubber and day-old skunk spray--a scent that always fills me with nostalgia for my own beginnings as a recording engineer back in the 80s) marked "January". Threading the reel onto my dad's old Sony tape deck with anticipation, I discovered several explorations of harmonics centered around the notes "C" and "F" which I found quite interesting. Most of these pieces started and ended abruptly, as though Uncle Hassell intended the tape to be a sonic notebook of ideas for later use. I took the liberty to clean up the tapes (some sections had a good bit of hiss and dropouts) and made this collage.
The sketches are numbered and dated, without any accompanying notes except for one, referring to an excerpt appearing around 14 minutes into my collage, which states: "#6. 1/27. Sounds like MoPac freight passing through Mer Rouge at 10 PM." Going back to my own childhood memories of late nights in that little Delta town, recalling my own shiver of excitement at the deep thrum of a three-engine train a mile distant and the engineer's brief horn taps reverberating through the flat plains, I'd have to say the old boy caught a pretty good impression of it. Little did I know he was still awake in the house next door, listening just like me.

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from Delta Drone, released January 14, 2019

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