Septeber 13, 2014
Site visit week was during our midterm tests and the week immediately following that was our midterm break. I decided to take advantage of the time off from school to get my musical collaboration fix for the year (probably..) with a volunteer in Njombe, Darryl. He was in a band before leaving for Peace Corps also, so we both have been missing that.
I went down to his house and stayed a couple nights playing music and writing the simplest 'song' (if you would call it that) I have ever helped to create. It's mostly a combination of various sounds (musical and otherwise) put together in a jumble of different verses that vary from singing, to chanting, to a jazzy scatty closing verse. It's strange.
We recorded fire, ambient night-time sounds, cups clinking, a drum, guitars, harmonica, whistling, a conversation, etc. to get the feel we were looking for.
It was a fun week trying out new things and getting to work on a short music project with someone besides myself.
Here's the final product!
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