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Threnody

from Basilica by Mike Dickson

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A study on repetiton and the passing of something you never quite managed to lay your hands on, perhaps best exemplified by the fact that the repeated figures of this piece don't start where you think they really start. The timings are deliberately obscure. Something is passing before your eyes and you just cannot see it.

A threnody is defined as a song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. At least that is the way Wikipedia phrases it this week. It may be a different definition next week. Sure, the tune here is mournful and plays on a cycle of four chords on a ground bass and it's all very minor key model and gloomy. As a closure to a particulary fertile period of music making it seemed apt.

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from Basilica, released February 6, 2011
Instrumentation:

Mellotron
Kontakt sampler
Trilogy bass
Pipe organs and treated pipe organs
Field recordings

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Mike Dickson Edinburgh, UK

Independent musician located in Scotland, producing cinematic/ambient/electronic works as and when he feels like it, for little to no fee.
Early works centred very much on the Mellotron but the palette is now much more varied.
Releases made periodically and usually frequently throughout the year. If you're listening to my stuff then I'd love to hear from you. ... more

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