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Three Note Odyssey
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A lush, uncharacteristically humor-free piece, and probably the best sound I've ever coaxed out of my Portastudio.
indie solo
This is just my own solo stuff. I do this crap mostly for my own amusement and/or as songwriting/production/arranging exercises. I don't how to categorize myself since I'm liable to try absolutely anything that catches my fancy, from indie-punk to '70s TV theme spoofs to ambient atmospherics. It's all here for you to enjoy, and if you're not careful you might get a headache before it's done, hey hey hey.
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Genre
Rock • Instrumental Rock
Charts
Peak #259
Peak in subgenre #33
Author
Bill Spiropoulos
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©2004 Bill Spiropoulos
Uploaded
March 18, 2005
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MP3 9.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Based on the three-note sign-on of an Eastern Bloc shortwave spy station, nicknamed the "Three Note Oddity." The main keyboard is my YS200 set to a faux-Farfisa patch. The wack guitar in the middle is effected by the homemade Fuzz Face/Small Stone/Dan-Echo; the whale-song-like sound is the result of a quirky interaction between the controls on the Fuzz Face and the guitar. Some kind of wiring error in the fuzz, I assume, but makes for a really cool sound. Anyway, I don't usually write stuff this theatrical/melodramatic; it really makes me feel naked in a way. I mean, I'm all about snotty humor and hipperthanthouness, and instead this track embodies everything I DIDN'T like about mid-'70s Who (Quadrophenia, the "Tommy" soundtrack) but nevertheless I still think it's a neat track and one of my finest so far. I'd like to rerecord it eventually, but for now this is the official version.
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