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Gregory Nieuwsma - A Guide for Getting Lost - full album

Originally issued on cassette by Preston Capes Tapes: https://prestoncapes1.bandcamp.com/al... A Guide for Getting Lost 1. The slow process of a moment revealing itself 2. Under a quilt 3. Pantheon, 6 a.m. 4. Napoleon the 8th 5. Thick and thin 6. Nightshade 7. Napoleon the 9th 8. The pleasures of getting lost All pieces composed, performed, and mixed by Gregory Nieuwsma Mastered by James Edward Armstrong Cover quilt by Marilee Nieuwsma Graphic design by Mat Handly All music inevitably draws from many wells. Often these wells are hidden, mysterious, and even unknown to those engaged in drawing from them. For obvious reasons, it’s difficult for me to comment on this these types of wells, but I do wish to acknowledge their provenance. There are also wells which consciously factored into the process. Minimalism was a big once. After having recorded a version of Terry Riley’s “In C” on flea-market instruments, I wanted to more in that sonic space, which became the opening track. The title points to the structure: The first few notes of a phrase are loped several times before the next note or two are added on, and eventually the whole phrase is revealed. There are three in the piece. Another area I wanted to explore was varied approaches to the guitar. The second track is the most straightforward of these, a simple fingerpicked melody on top of a harmonic delay loop played on the bass strings. The title is a nod to the cover photo, a quilt made by my mother. Track three, named for a personal memory of a time when I got lost in Rome, returns to minimalist concepts such as Terry Riley’s “time lag accumulator” delay techniques, here applied to mellotron choir voices playing phrases that expand and contract. The minimalist application of delay continues into the fourth track, this time a very fast delay, while also returning to explore different guitar approaches. There are multiple tracks layered to construct evolving harmonies. The method used to compose track five consisted of recording a drum machine rhythm track, then replacing each of the drum parts with an electric guitar part, some with a thick tone and some thinner. This created the rhythmic base to which I added the acoustic melody. Track six starts with a droney backdrop using many of the same flea-market instruments from track one, and eventually brings in a piano fed through the time-lag accumulator. The seventh track dives into guitar experimentation again, this time using a technique I learned from the Welsh guitar improvisor Ash Cooke. It consists of starting with a guitar whose strings are completely slack, and then tightening it up until some sort of tuning is achieved. An improvised melody followed, and then some trickery with putting the looper in reverse mode. The record finished as close to pop music as I’m likely to get these days, with several guitars dancing around a dreamy melody. It makes me think of the times while wandering the streets of a city I don’t know and suddenly realizing that I have no idea where I am or how to get where I’d intended to go, and exclaiming to myself “Yes!” -Greg Nieuwsma Originally released on Preston Capes Tapes. Buy here: https://prestoncapes1.bandcamp.com/al...