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Disquiet Junto 0727 asked us to pull two cards from the Oblique Strategies deck, and record the piece that they inspire. 

I interpreted my first card, “You don’t have to be ashamed of using your own ideas”, as encouragement to go with my instincts and not second-guess myself. So I kept the first improvisation I conceived for each instrument, without self-censoring or editing. I had to retake the lead guitar to fix a technical issue but I did not stray from my original inspiration for any of the tracks.

The second card I drew was “Twist the spine”, which I took as an invitation to “twist” the pitches of the guitars (courtesy of the Walrus Audio Slo reverb pedal on the repeating figure, and a nice tremelo from the Eventide Harmonizer for the higher guitar). They sound a little nervous and uncertain, and I like the atmosphere that resulted from that decision.

Features live electric guitar and bass, digital piano, synth, TR-08 drum machine, spoken word, and acousmatics.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

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