Ushqar

Running Time: 5:23

Released On: "Sitar On Sitar" - Various Artists (44 tracks)

Label: Camembert Électrique

Release Date: 1st June 2022

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

Confession; I love sitar music. Second confession: I have just the slightest crush on Anoushka Shankar (stop frowning, she's way prettier than her dad)! So, all things considered, putting work on Optimas to one side to do a track for this album was an absolute no-brainer. Now, the sitar; well, it's far from an inexpensive instrument, so we didn't fancy investing for what may well prove to be a single use. And neither of us had the inclination to spend a few months learning how to play one competently, so we had to resort to samples (just for a change), with which we toyed slightly less mercilessly than is usually our way, because it is such a beautiful sounding instrument anyway. So, for the most part, the track is simply cut samples in an unconventional sequence, delightfully accompanied by Skit banging the bass drum. Metaphorically speaking, of course, that's sampled too, we're Magic Bullet, not The Mahavishnu Orchestra. The intro is actually sitar too, there's nothing but sitar and bass drum on here, even though it sounds like it in places. Such is the resonance of the instrument, that when slowed right down, it produces a sound like an organ (reminiscent of David Bowie's Memories Of A Free Festival, we thought), thus the intro / outro. We were both really pleased with the outcome of this track and spent much time dancing round The Mmatterialisation Chamber to it, arms in the air. Like we just didn't care. Followed by the urge for a curry...

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