Ceylon Batu Biru [disquiet0305] by Equinox Deschanel (Joe McMahon)

Disquiet Junto 305: Three Princes

I started listening to all of the tracks; when I heard the intro to "Surathal Ranwan Samanalayo" I stopped. Birdsong, cool, got it, two more to go...and then I hit Suralo Sapa De with the beautiful call-and-response at the beginning - and I knew I was done. And going to break rule 2!

I extracted and looped the birdsong track because I had to have it as the bed to lay the other loops over, then I pulled the three call-and-response phrases and created three out-of-phase loops with those, using Audacity's tempo altering plugin to make them all exactly the same length - the original repeats only version didn't phase enough for me.

After listening to the track for a while, I decided to give it a bass line and a sustained pad to accompany the phasing loops. The pad ended up being a DX7 "sitar" pad with a lot of processing to spread it out in time and in the stereo image.

The title was selected by Google auto-complete with some twiddling of phrases, and means "Ceylon blue stone"; Sri Lanka is famous for its sapphires.