welcome back weary travelers! for this weeks tune, i have traveled to the Peruvian high Andes with Frenchmen dressed as Inca kings and toting cigarette holders and 50 year old cognac.
“the wind dance of satin nightingales” is steiny’s first real attempt at “exotica”, inspired in part by the halloween party here at maplewood on saturday night. i have heard many of these tunes in my roommate stevies magical party mixes, and finally got inspired on saturday to write in the style.
the instrumentation is as follows:
two pandero’s (small frame drum)
tambourine
shaker
drumset toms
percussion
upright bass
guitar (tremolo)
piano(s)
cellos
xylophone
misc. jungle ambiance and bird calls
some french guy (from a french language program)
jon steiny vocals
rachel steiny vocals
EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR RACHEL STEINMEIER! rachel came in just today and whipped out some magical vocal lines, some composed and some improvised. i told her to go for “kermit the frog sings opera” and she rocked it. in case ya’ll don’t know, my sister is a talented and trained vocalist, with a great ear and great range, and will also be appearing in the Detholz – Jukebox of the Dead show halloween night! NEXT WEEK!
well, not sure what else to say about this tune. i’m pretty happy with it. i hope you get transported to a mysterious place (but don’t freak out).
thanks for listening!
j
p.s. a barrel of laughs for anyone who can translate the french
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