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Cloud Occlusion-12

A brief GuRzUnZ improvisation from the 2023 album 'The 7 Bridges'

Glib - GuRzUnZ

Vocals by Delaram Izadi & Paul Gibbon
Drums by Dale Marshall
Guitars & bass by Mick Clack
Keyboards by Paul Gibbon

Recorded at Rooftop Studio, Oxford UK

Lemurian Heartbeat

The Percolator by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by D. Danielli/G. Davies.    

Performers:
George: guitars
Dave: bass, percussion
Emma: flute

Project directed by George Davies.

Recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* The Percolator was initally composed by Dave and modified into a Flicker tune by George.
* Dave took George’s Stratocaster home to give it some TLC, and when he brought it back, this crazy tune had sprung forth from it into his hands.
* It seems to be about the vague imaginings one might have that manifest into more coherent thought after musing has occured.
* This may be nonsense though – Dave composed it initially and maybe it was just some tune.
* The time signature is very variable, so Flicker set the metronome to record in 1/8 at 150 BPM.
* This meant it had an insane amount of bars on the sequencer.
* This resulted in comments like “Let’s go back to bar 2340 and try from there” – quite impressive for the shortest piece on the album!
* It can be thought of as being largely in a slow eleven time, with the odd bar of six after the Em9.
* It’s easiest to count ||: 1-2-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3- :||
* Emma’s flute towards the end represents the steam when boiling takes place.
* The brutality of the djembe doing the bass drum is important.
* George said that the melody seemed quite obvious once he’d understood the chords properly.
* George composed and scored the flute part for Emma after his guitar melody materialised.
* Scoring the part for Emma using pencil and paper was the first time George had had to use music score in a real-life situation for years.
* This piece is in D minor, although the C minor adds a cunning twist.
* One of the keys to unlocking the rhythm of the piece is to follow the cowbell.
* It plays on every other beat, so sometimes it is on the beat and sometimes off.
* More cowbell!
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/the-percolator

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-percolator
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Video of George playing the acoustic guitar part, with out-takes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EzCjSTSyG8
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Dale Marshall: drums
Mick Clack: guitars & bass
Paul Gibbon: keyboards

Also featuring: Lu Cozma: vocals, Delaram Izadi: tanbour & vocals, Andre Van Solinge: guitar, Milo Clack: vocals, Lester Moses: sax, John 'JJ' Soul: spoken word.

GuRzUnZ were formed by Mick Clack and Dale Marshall as tribute to their friend, the late great Michael Gerzon (1945-1996) The Audio industry lost a major contributor to the future of audio recording and reproduction when Michael passed away. His 121 published papers cover a wide variety of subjects - most, but not all, concerned with audio - and his contribution to the art and science of recording and reproduction is major and truly innovative. 
A warm, generous man with a great passion for improvised music. 

To mark the tenth anniversary of his death in April 2006, the much awaited biography of Michael Gerzon's life was published. 

Written by Robert Charles Alexander and entitled 'Michael Gerzon - Beyond Psychoacoustics' (ISBN 0-9748438-2-2) it defines the nature of a man whose true greatness, influence and achievements may well not be fully recognized until well into the 21st Century.

https://www.michaelgerzonphotos.org.uk/

https://intothesoundfield.music.ox.ac.uk/michael-gerzon-story

https://www.pcmag.com/news/25-years-after-his-death-a-3d-sound-pioneer-finally-gets-the-mic

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A full time, freelance children's book illustrator, introduced to Magix music making software in January 2014.  Haven't been near music production since school about a hundred years ago.  Can't play a note, and sing like a drain unblocking - Hence any music I may eventually have the nerve to upload is all created using midi/vst instruments playing compositions created in the piano roll editor.   The Magix forum dedicated to music production is the only place to suffer my creations so far.  Didn't realise it could be so much fun though.  Woohoo.

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