Arabis: The Alliance of The Nail (EP), by YB

Arabis: The Alliance of The Nail (EP)

by YB

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	1.	prelude 00:47
	2.	wahid 03:23
	3.	thalatha 01:19
	4.	arba'a 03:28
	5.	sita 03:27
	6.	kamisa 02:10
	7.	ithinin 01:12
	8.	saba'a 05:46
	9.	thamania 01:57
	10.	epilogue 02:25

about

This is probably my favorite solo composition and definitely the most fun to put together, starting with a single line of uninterrupted improv then using a set of rules to add bunches of arrangement & layering to building up a cacophony more than a little informed by the likes of Secret Chiefs 3, Mr. Bungle, & Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Like the music, vocals were improvised and mostly stream of conscious (except for the WB Yeats & William Blake passages). Cool Edit Pro's features were pushed to the max with a thousand irreversible WAV edits that took several minutes each to process.

Technically this was never more than a demo, and obviously the Slayer moments fall *a little* short when your Dave Lombardo is the stock MIDI font of a Sound Blaster card, but a couple efforts at finding live musicians to play this were futile. And so it lives on as is.

50 hand-numbered CDRs were made & those are gone.

credits

released October 31, 2002

Yates Brown: music, words*, classical & electric guitars, banjo, sitar, bass, keyboards, MIDI, vocals, percussion (ie, things lying around the apartment), sampling, recording, production/lack thereof, & cover

*except:
words 106-143 from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"
words 172-220 from William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell"