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unlike many of my recordings that take a long time to gather the tracks for and arrange them in the right order or one-two track kind of an album , i’ve recorded this one in the same order that is intended for playing , but there’s little of a specific storytelling reason that the order had to be like this . but it simplifies the storytelling of this post cause i can go through the tracks one by one

everything started with me testing my newly rebuilt (still in the process of working on the neck) electric defretted guitar . i recorded test sounds of a guitar with three strings in no tuning and i would have left the file as is till better times if not for my friend who liked it and encouraged me to record more

so i went and did . next track i took two guitars and played layer over layer with some effect automation added on top (just like the first and most of the tracks , it’s made in ardour)

while recording next track , i had a technical issue of sorts that i never figured out , but which made a part of texture of the track that made me think of fields of artificial metallic plants

next track i fixed whatever was the issue and tried to make even more meditative and slow piece ; it also turned out to be kinda grim , but also inducing sense of wonder — at least for me

the beginning of virtual “B side” is marked by live sound of sandgoamb (full track name would take too much space), the only track that is entirely acoustic (even though played on electric guitar — it was literally unplugged) . one of the major reference for this track for me was sokpb avabodha . one intuitively thinks that random live solo improvisation , especially on an instrument not made for the task , is not something worthy of interest . and this track specifically tries to defeat that expectation by trying to be cinematic

next track with its wargan-like guitar sounds was largely meant to be meditative , but as the title implies , it couldn’t go far enough in that direction . some time after somewhat slow and making sense ambient beginning , it goes into two guitars talking to each other , saying weird things over the still present background reminding of initial goal to mediate and relax . by the end guitars go back to being rhythmic and playing nicely with each other , but the moment to dive into is lost

as its title implies , i would rather be having a perfect dream instead of recording that track , but instead only ghosts of it were around me that night . this track is based on live unplugged recording (in audacity) that was later on paulstretched to really shine . ironically this track is perhaps closest one to being trans-inducing , though it never was planned as such

and finally after all that spookiness of many of the previous tracks , it was time to whistle it away , however abruptly that ended the previous flow . this one was recorded in audacity unplugged , but then processed in ardour with some plugin automation , making otherwise somewhat flat and repetitive track more interesting