This is a new arrangement of an older track that has been redone using a different DAW. It still sounds as if it belongs in a Miyazaki film.

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 It started off as a one minute experiment using Audacity and a metronome. Later I got a friend (P Murphy) to play  bass and electric guitar. At this point the whole thing underwent a heap of digital cut and pasting due to the computer crashing. I added the tenor and alto saxes along with the flute (these are my instruments).  Finally I got another friend (C Nunn) to play digital kit drums. There are no keyboards, synths or human voices on this track, it's just the instruments listed, with a bit of digital mutilation. My girlfriend says that the sax parts remind her of the music from 'Twin Peaks'.

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Cinematic electronica aptly describes David Whatson’s style. He is an Australian musician living on Kabi Kabi land. Hailing from the pre-digital era, David is a self-taught woodwind player whose formative years involved tape manipulation and other analogue devices. After playing in bands for many years, his most recent aural adventure is the digital audio workstation.

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