Ingenuity

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So I found the two missing hours today, and here is the result. « Ingenuity » is what happens when you’re improvising a jazzy little walking-bass like thingy on the guitar while absentmindedly thinking about grocery shopping.

A couple of notes:

The piano part was played, quite nicely I must say, by « Band In a Box ».

Also, if you listen really, really closely, you can hear me playing some real saxophone. This is kind of a big deal because I haven’t touched one in about 15 years! As soon as I started playing however, my downstairs neighbor started banging violently and then sought revenge by playing Viennese waltzes as loud as possible on a piano. I persevered but tried to play as quietly as possible, which is very hard to do on a sax, and wasn’t made any easier by the fact that the reed on my old beat-up tenor is also about 15 years old (I probably bought it when I was still living in New York!) So in the end, I had to drastically lower the sax in the mix to keep the Viennese waltz (and my iffy playing) from being too audible.

I’m putting « Ingenuity » up on Radio Vince, mini Radio Vince (at the top of this page), and SoundClick.

25/09/06 Update: Now with a tiny Radio Vince player!