Venue recording

Robin McLeod - electric guitar (left)
Louis Schwartz - electric guitar (right)
Bryan Martin - bass
Dave Ellis - drums, percussion

Improv: Three Rings > Lupe d'Two (Live)

Aurika Trio Live at the Visual Art Studio, Richmond Va.  Toward the end of the night on Friday, November 4th, 2022.  Bryan started playing a drone and then this unfolded.  

Bryan Martin: Bass
Robin McLeod: Electric Guitar (left channel)
Louis Schwartz: Electric Guitar (right channel)

"Steering Backward into Summer"

Ambient piece with a pulse.  Basic left and right tracks recorded with a Chase Bliss Habit.  Initial track improvised live, then the second track improvised over that from and through the same memory buffer. Center track then overdubbed over the result using the Stretch and Slip modes of a Chase Bliss Mood MK I.  Various effects going into these were:  Source Audio Zio preamp/buffer, Walrus Audio Deep 6 compressor, Shoe Pedals Robert Fuzz, J. Rockett Dude v2, Barefoot Effects Honeybee overdrive, TC Electronics Quintessence Harmonizer, EHX Attack/Decay, EHX Mel9, various modulations from a Zoom MS-50 Stomp, Source Audio Nemesis Delay, Hotone Phaze, Supro Chorus, OBNE Sunlight reverb, and an Earthquaker Devices Afterneath reverb.  Everything after the Mood and Habit into a UAFX Dream 65, then stereo out an A&H ZED 10FX used as an interface into GarageBand.  The guitar used on all three tracks was a Strandberg Boden Classic NX 6.

Whale Fall V

Hazelnuts For Breakfast

Cover of Ramble on recorded and mixed on my iPhone while sitting at my coffee table.  Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Bass Guitar, Tambourines, Vocals, and Fist On Coffee Table.

Coffee Table Ramble On

In Memoriam.

Guitar: Strandberg Boden Classic NX 6. Pedalboard signal chain:  Source Audio Zio preamp/buffer, Walrus Audio Deep Six compressor, Shoe Pedals Robert Fuzz, BearFoot Effects Honey Bee overdrive, TC Electronics Quintessence harmonizer (for harmonized guitar lines and bass effects), EHX Attack Decay, EHX Mel9, Source Audio Nemesis Delay, Hotone Phaze, Mr. Black mini tremolo, Zoom Multistomp MS-50g (vibrato, envelope filter, particle reverb), Supro Chorus, Chase Bliss Mood mk1, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Dynamic reverb, Earthquaker Devices Afterneath reverb, Chase Bliss Habit.  Pedalboard into a UAFX Dream 65 to a UA Volt 276 into GarageBand (for percussion tracks and all mixing and processing).  Composed, performed, and recorded by Louis Schwartz.  Samples from "Margaritaville," Jimmy Buffett, 1977.

Wasting Away Again (mix 2)

Glitch

The „Last Sunday" -- erroneously called „THAT Last Sunday" -- was composed by the Polish composer Jerzy Petersburski in 1936. It is a nostalgic tango with lyrics by Zenon Friedwald describing the final meeting of former lovers who are parting. The Polish title was: "To Ostatnia Niedziela" ("The Last Sunday"). The song was extremely popular and was performed by numerous artists (the best known performance by the pre-war Polish singer Mieczysław Fogg). Along the way, it first gained the nick-name of "Suicide Tango" due to its sad lyric (although, the real „suicie song" in the night restaurants of Warsaw -- where the shoot in the brow at 12 at night was not an unusual happening - was in 1930s another sad „Sunday": the „Gloomy Sunday" (in Polish: „Smutna niedziela") by a Hungarian composer Rezső Seress. 
Soon, it became an international hit; in the US sung by Billie Holiday. 
But Polish „Last Sunday" also had a terribly sad fate. During World War II In the concentrations camps it was often played while Jewish prisoners were led to the gas chambers and ovens, to be executed. 
During World War II its Russian version was prepared by Iosif Alveg and performed by Leonid Utyosov under the title of "Weary Sun" (Russian: "Utomlyennoye Solntse"). After World War II, the song remained largely successful and appeared in a number of films, including Yuriy Norshteyn's 1979 "Tale of Tales" (considered by many international critics to be the greatest animated film ever made), the award-winning Krzysztof Kieślowski's "White" (1994) and Nikita Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun" of the same year. The Russian title of the song also became the name-sake for the latter film and -- as the result - for even more educated and worldly Russians, nowadays, it is considered as the „Russian national song"!

Utomlennoe Solntse (Weary Sun)

Vlad Cuiujuclu - music, guitars, fluier (Romanian flute)
Ian Robinson - keyboard, samples, recording, mixing, mastering
Kevin Eichenberger - bass

For The Girls in Kyoto

makenoise phonogene processing a subtractive synth patch, first running through a delay effect.

Whale Fall V

Louis Schwartz

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