Abiding with Antiquity by Ivodne Galatea

This is a macaronic pataphysical book review: drawing on two Chinese tunes: a sheng piece called "An old Buddhist monk sweeps the temple" (Lǎo sēng sǎo diàn/老僧扫殿) and a guqin piece called "Feigning Drunkenness (Jiǔ kuáng/酒狂).

The arrangement is born of propinquity: the pieces were lying around. I tend to use the sweeping song as an alternative to Nhemamusasa for playing unfamiliar mbiras, and I have been using the drinking song as practice for using the Digitech Whammy DT. It seemed to be appropriate to combine them in a new track.

I have orchestrated the tunes with field recordings of snowfalls (three from town and one from a forest), because for some reason I have always imagined the monk sweeping away snowflakes rather than leaves or dust.

Once again thanks to some marvellous Freesound field recorders. klankbeeld and corsica_s
credits
from The Archaeology of Knowledge, released 14 October 2013
IG: Pracowni Promyk mbira dza vadzimu; Hohner Guitaret, Hohner Pianet T.

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Freesound recordings:
Klankbeeld provides three field recordings of snow falling in a village (174815, 176278 and 178190)
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/174815/
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/176278/
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/178190/
Corsica_S provides a field recording of snow falling in a forest.(178154)
http://www.freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/sounds/178154/