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From indie rock veteran Pall Jenkins (The Black Heart Procession, Three Mile Pilot) come the haunting sounds of DARKSOPHONE, featuring musical saw, Marxophone, skeletal guitar and heavy drums. Since the saw and Marxophone both have limited ranges, we’ve split the keyboard, placing the saw on the lower half and the Marxophone on the upper half. For those unfamiliar with the Marxophone, it’s a zither-like instrument that is played with a series of keys, which bounce metal hammers onto the strings for a repeated dulcimer effect. The musical saw is played with a bow, and each note has an organic vibrato and other articulations. The sparse guitar chords lend themselves to combining chord buttons for extended harmonies. The drums feature patterns in both 6/8 and 4/4. Trying slowing the disc all the way down and/or playing it backwards with the reverb cranked up for some spooky late-night shoe-gazing!
Comments 8
February 15, 2017 at 2:08 am
wonderful.
sign me up for this disc.
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February 15, 2017 at 3:11 am
Waits meets Leonard and something else. Great disk.
February 15, 2017 at 2:32 pm
Got to get Me a Optigan® first. Will there be software downloads as well?
February 15, 2017 at 7:49 pm
Hi, our new discs are currently only available in this format, sorry!
March 13, 2017 at 7:35 pm
Sorry where can i hear this?
March 14, 2017 at 9:51 pm
There’s a demo video in the blog post.
March 14, 2017 at 8:38 pm
Is there a way to ‘play’ and thus sample…this disk without an optigan? I do not have an optigan® but really want this.
March 14, 2017 at 9:50 pm
Hi, you’ll unfortunately need an Optigan® to do anything with this disc other than look at it! 🙂