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Imaginary Folklore I

from IMAGINARY FOLKLORE by Marcel Rocha

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One afternoon some years ago I was just messing around with delays in Reason and my guitar. At one point, I got a loop that really caught my attention. So, I had the impulse to hit record and maybe build an improvisation track over it. That loop is what you hear at the beginning of this record, that little guitar loop that fades into the song. Then I switched to this other guitar sound that I was also messing around with: I have made a patch with rhythmic delays and some kind of envelope follower (thanks, Reason community and forums!) that allowed me to trigger synth sounds from my regular guitar (with no MIDI pickup involved, thankfully). Because of the rhythm generated by the delays, I could at the same time play arpeggiated chords and the melody. Also, since the above system for triggering the synth is not polyphonic, as you can hear, it sounds like the synth is playing only the melody like it was an overdub on top of the harmonic accompaniment, but everything is just one performance, one take, one afternoon...I wasn’t even recording when I plugged the guitar...I just love these moments when the music wants, needs, demands to be created and we just serve the Muse!
Years later, I added the percussion samples and loops and the delay manipulations to complete the track. When I listened back I thought of slow motion footage of people dancing with folk costumes on the streets of some some country. A slow celebration of life without the original music...my music serving as a sort of a ‘otherworldly’ counterpoint or counterpart...a dreamy version of some cultural manifestation...hence IMAGINARY FOLKLORE!

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from IMAGINARY FOLKLORE, released November 20, 2018

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Marcel Rocha Campinas, Brazil

Eclectic electronic and guitar music.

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