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[This is a remix based on the comments I received and it's definitely more open with less bass cancellation. Incidentally, this is what Robert had to say about my interpretation of his classic song: "Quite nice and full-- faithful to both the tune and the tempo-- rare---- I am blessed that you find this tune intriguing and have treated it so fully-- yet gently-- if such can be said of rock... and you do rock it..." That's enough to put a smile on a dulcimer-player's face right there! Thanks again to everybody!]
This is a cover song, but the songwriter, Robert Force, is a dear friend and mentor who wrote the tune in the early 70's and made it famous with his late partner, Albert d'Ossché. It has since become one of the most well-known original works written for the mountain dulcimer (actually meant to be played as a dulcimer duet with the signature Force-d'Ossché sound.)
This is a cover song, but the songwriter, Robert Force, is a dear friend and mentor who wrote the tune in the early 70's and made it famous with his late partner, Albert d'Ossché. It has since become one of the most well-known original works written for the mountain dulcimer (actually meant to be played as a dulcimer duet with the signature Force-d'Ossché sound.)
I played both dulcimer parts over some latin drum loops, two tracks of acoustic dulcimer going direct in (Piezo pickup, not bad), two tracks of ghosted/distorted dulcimer and a keyboard bass line that I pulled out of my rear-facing nether-region, since no bass had been written.
In case you're wondering what it sounds like with just two dulcimers, check out this performance by Robert and I last year at the Mountain Music Festival in Manitou Springs, Colorado:
The photo was taken minutes after I first met Robert - how stoked was I to be playing "Wellyn" with DA MAN!?
Crank it up and enjoy!
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Audiologic
I love this acoustic grooviness :) Very clean and pure.
I haven't listened to your music in awhile but this is something GREAT to come back to.
~ Ben