This is from a session I played for composer Barnaby Taylor, who composed the stunning soundtrack to the BBC 'ATLANTIC' series, which aired in summer 2015 on BBC TWO.
Barnaby sent me a temp track for a beautiful film sequence of a whale pod. The sequence was one of intimacy amidst a great vastness. I was briefed to replace the temporary guitar tracks with original live guitar parts that would fit the piece.
The piece here consists only of the tracks I laid down - the entire temp track has been muted. What you are hearing consists of three guitars and one bass guitar.
No production, mixing or editing of the track has taken place at all. These are the bare tracks, as I played them on four successive live takes.
This recording is an example of some guitar with a middle eastern influence to the phrasing and pitch. It was recorded during a session I played for Barnaby Taylor’s scoring of Sacha Mirzoeff’s 2005 film ‘Shooting Under Fire’. The film was concerned with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the eyes of Reuters news and camera men who risked their lives to document and report it’s realities.
I was given a harrowing film sequence and temp track and invited to play what the sequence evoked. I come in at about 0:10s with a long ringing note and then again at about 0:30s with the bowed sounds that continue through the take. This track is a single take throughout and is again, presented without any of the editing, production or mastering that followed.