Nari - Lata - Vela(disquiet0305) by Hypoid

Nari -Lata -Vela(disquiet0305)
My music videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_iQ5JFusPt9EIwKIZ5rew
Burned all that was left of this weeks midnight oil! I have a soft spot for old 78's and was looking forward to listening to these early works. With so many choices I picked numbers of interest and lucked out with #3 'Aadaraya Nisa Narde Bendena' with its wonderful vocals, #16 'Asahayaki Me Ale', more great vocals and #104 'Seetha Rama' with a very interesting opening horn. I did pad my sample loops with four tracks, but #109 'Siri Siri, Piri Piri' was the weakest, so it wasn't used. After bringing the looped tracks into Cubasis, lots of experimentation yielded a decent beginning, but more mucking about was called for ;-) I really enjoyed the horn sample and found that when reversing every other loop, a pleasant melancholia appeared. The vocal from #3 was left in its original loop, but the vocal from #104 was stretched with no pitch change, because...it sounded right! Some panning, stereo widening and RoomWorks verb were added in varying doses. One of my favorite Micrologue patches was laid gently underneath in E1 to accompany the horn. The title and picture come from the Sri Lanka myth of the nari-lata-vela, a mythical vine with flowers in the form of women, these woman are ‘in all wise of perfect beauty, glorious in grace’ , fitting I thought given the lovely vocals!
Samples used can be found at:
https://archive.org/details/Gramophone.Music.From.Ceylon/Aadaraya_Nisa_Harde_Bendena.MP3
Interesting bits: https://www.snopes.com/narilatha-flower/
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