Click photo to hear Rain – an analog cassette transfer of Mosaic’s version (Blair Mackay, Bernardo Padron, John Yelland, Steve Castellano, Paul Ormandy and myself). The fidelity is poor but the tune carries.

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I rented a synthesizer and found a great string orchestra sound. I laid down a slow moving line into a Fostex 4-track cassette recorder. Then I added a pentatonic melody and a series of “open” chords, without thirds, with a nylon string guitar. It came to me like a soundtrack for an imagined film.

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The day, the room, the light shifting into late afternoon.

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