Airport
(2006)
Track listing
01 Chickabit
02 19th Century
03 John-Raga
04 Eminonu
05 Chemistry
06 Spring
('Baby Heaven' Remix by Kino)
07 The Celt in the Street
08 Flute Solo
09 Salt, Water, Honey
(New Version)
10 Scattered
11 Jopi
(2006)
Track listing
01 Chickabit
02 19th Century
03 John-Raga
04 Eminonu
05 Chemistry
06 Spring
('Baby Heaven' Remix by Kino)
07 The Celt in the Street
08 Flute Solo
09 Salt, Water, Honey
(New Version)
10 Scattered
11 Jopi
Some information about the recording:
'Airport' is a grouping of pieces that
were best described as 'new and
revisited tracks'. I'd
completed 'Airport' a few months after
I'd returned from Istanbul, Turkey. The
visit had been
fundamental to me musically. There
has never been a city that I'd visited
before that was more
musical than Istanbul. I obtained my
first dulcimer (an Iranian santur) and
first darabuka here.
(Note: You will find alternate spellings
of both of these instruments, depending
on context; santour
and darbuka are also considered
accurate spellings.) The santur is
percussive instrument - a
trapezoidal-shaped box of rosewood
that is layered horizontally with
alternating trios of brass and
steel strings, brass for bass and steel
for treble. The stings are played with
very light wooden
hammers that generate sound as they
are struck against the strings. It was a
perfect instrument
for me, and one that I'd craved for
years.
My first recorded song of santur,
'eminonu', was the beginning of
'Airport'. As I'd begun looking for
some other recorded sounds amongst
my archive, I came to find a host of
other work that had
been left unfinished - work that really
wanted more attention and new life
breathed into them. I
began approaching these tracks with a
different sensibility.
The songs were culled from some vocal
recordings I'd made in Connecticut at
my brother's place a
few years back. Other songs began
with beats and new flute recordings,
others were mainly vocal
compositions that had lain dormant for
awhile that needed to be heard again.
It was exciting to
hear these echoes, alongside new work
and a remixed version of a track from
'Citron'.
'Airport' feels much more like an EP to
me in that it has a quiet unpredictability.
It was made as I
was still allowing the glow of Turkey to
stay with me.
'Airport' is a grouping of pieces that
were best described as 'new and
revisited tracks'. I'd
completed 'Airport' a few months after
I'd returned from Istanbul, Turkey. The
visit had been
fundamental to me musically. There
has never been a city that I'd visited
before that was more
musical than Istanbul. I obtained my
first dulcimer (an Iranian santur) and
first darabuka here.
(Note: You will find alternate spellings
of both of these instruments, depending
on context; santour
and darbuka are also considered
accurate spellings.) The santur is
percussive instrument - a
trapezoidal-shaped box of rosewood
that is layered horizontally with
alternating trios of brass and
steel strings, brass for bass and steel
for treble. The stings are played with
very light wooden
hammers that generate sound as they
are struck against the strings. It was a
perfect instrument
for me, and one that I'd craved for
years.
My first recorded song of santur,
'eminonu', was the beginning of
'Airport'. As I'd begun looking for
some other recorded sounds amongst
my archive, I came to find a host of
other work that had
been left unfinished - work that really
wanted more attention and new life
breathed into them. I
began approaching these tracks with a
different sensibility.
The songs were culled from some vocal
recordings I'd made in Connecticut at
my brother's place a
few years back. Other songs began
with beats and new flute recordings,
others were mainly vocal
compositions that had lain dormant for
awhile that needed to be heard again.
It was exciting to
hear these echoes, alongside new work
and a remixed version of a track from
'Citron'.
'Airport' feels much more like an EP to
me in that it has a quiet unpredictability.
It was made as I
was still allowing the glow of Turkey to
stay with me.
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