Eastern, by Maurice Rickard

Eastern

by Maurice Rickard

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1.	Eastern 04:06	buy track
2.	Twelve Tables 03:28	buy track
3.	Point of Rocks 03:43	buy track
4.	Aryabhata 04:18	buy track
5.	Gismonda 03:31	buy track
6.	Taurinesis 04:17	buy track
7.	The Heights 03:40	buy track
8.	Mount Song 03:45	buy track
9.	Old Road 03:27	buy track
10.	Centesima 04:08	buy track
11.	Great Red Line 03:52	buy track

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Since the beginning of 2014, I started making a new piece of music every week, inspired by the Weekly Beats community. After nearly a full decade of them, I've created over 500 pieces of music that wouldn't have otherwise existed.

Since mid-2021, many of these have been all-guitar pieces, in which the challenge is to create interesting music each week with just three or four tracks of the same guitar, straight to the board.

For many of these, I'd start by coming up with a melodic motive, and responding to it in another channel. Then another. Then I'd mute one and respond to the others. Eventually, there were a lot of little themes, and pieces emerged. In some cases, I had an overall sense of what I wanted to hear--often, in these, it was a sense of loose timing, and a piece coming together against a tension of pauses.

These pieces are from the last year and a few months, and they seem to share a kind of sensibility. Thank you for listening!

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released November 3, 2023

Maurice Rickard: guitar

Recorded at home from July 2022 to October 2023.

Equipment:

Guitars: PureSalem Mendiola on most of them, except for home-built Res-O-Glas on track 2, and Danelectro baritone on 4 and 6
Converters: Universal Audio UA Volt 1, Focusrite Scarlett
Effects: Moyo Volume on 5, Vox Wah on 11.
Recorded in Ableton Live

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Maurice Rickard Pittsburgh

Maurice Rickard is a musician, sound artist, and Deep Listening Certificate holder based in Pittsburgh. He has a long history in improv and minimalist ambient work as snwv, but also abstract electronics. Most recently, he's been composing pieces for small ensembles of guitars. ... more

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