The song incorporates several different styles. It begins with some vocals layered with different effects, most prominently a flanger style one, that make it sound as though the sound is slowly flowing down a drain. There is also a rain maker used at 30 seconds quickly followed by bagpipes. Shortly after the bagpipes make themselves know they are joined by some low rumbling vocals and distant dirty sounding distorted drums in the background. At 1.20 the party really gets started! The drums are less background noise and become a lot clearer. The bagpipes suddenly have a lot more life to them as there are around two or three layers of the instrument being played at once. One the same as before, one around an octave higher and another slightly lower. There is also what sounds like a recorder being used, playing the same melody as the bagpipes. The main thing that gives this section an added power is the addition of the bass. As this section roles on there are also some soft chords introduced in the background. At 2.25 the piece reverts back to as it was in the beginning, essentially using the same formula, then at 2.53 it changes back into the faster more up beat section. This section goes on until eventually fizzling out with a nice fade effect based around one chord.
It is a truly titillating piece clearly written with the intention of getting the people of Eastern Europe’s dancing shoes on. The melody of the piece can be closely linked to eastern European folk music though the instrumentation makes it more likely to be medieval. This piece has a polyphonic texture and incorporates cross rhythms, with a slightly fainter drum being played in the background.
The instruments used in this piece are:
Gaida (Bulgarian style bagpipes)
Keyboards
Bass
Drumkit
Recorder
Vocals
Moustachioed man playing Gaida
HN:
The piece contains flutes, drums, bass guitar, synth and sitar.
It begins with distorted synth and ambience. 36 seconds in, a melody starts on the synthesised sitar, 47 seconds in rasping vocals are heard. Panflutes are heard at 1:16 and the intro ends at 1:21 with the first section and main melody (B), followed at 1:45 by a variation before returning to B at 1:50. 2:05 sees the return of the variation (with a cymbal-heavy drum fill at 2:16). A breakdown at 2.25 (with the return of the rasping voices at 2.32) features the main melody on flute at 2:42. This flute part is continued with drum and bass accompaniment at 2:54 until at 3:08 where the sitar is heard in the background playing its melody. At 3:22 the main section B returns. 3:38 is another B1. For the final 50 seconds, all instruments bar an organ fade out until at 5:05, it too fades out.
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The song incorporates several different styles. It begins with some vocals layered with different effects, most prominently a flanger style one, that make it sound as though the sound is slowly flowing down a drain. There is also a rain maker used at 30 seconds quickly followed by bagpipes. Shortly after the bagpipes make themselves know they are joined by some low rumbling vocals and distant dirty sounding distorted drums in the background. At 1.20 the party really gets started! The drums are less background noise and become a lot clearer. The bagpipes suddenly have a lot more life to them as there are around two or three layers of the instrument being played at once. One the same as before, one around an octave higher and another slightly lower. There is also what sounds like a recorder being used, playing the same melody as the bagpipes. The main thing that gives this section an added power is the addition of the bass. As this section roles on there are also some soft chords introduced in the background. At 2.25 the piece reverts back to as it was in the beginning, essentially using the same formula, then at 2.53 it changes back into the faster more up beat section. This section goes on until eventually fizzling out with a nice fade effect based around one chord.
It is a truly titillating piece clearly written with the intention of getting the people of Eastern Europe’s dancing shoes on. The melody of the piece can be closely linked to eastern European folk music though the instrumentation makes it more likely to be medieval. This piece has a polyphonic texture and incorporates cross rhythms, with a slightly fainter drum being played in the background.
The instruments used in this piece are:
Moustachioed man playing Gaida
HN:
The piece contains flutes, drums, bass guitar, synth and sitar.
It begins with distorted synth and ambience. 36 seconds in, a melody starts on the synthesised sitar, 47 seconds in rasping vocals are heard. Panflutes are heard at 1:16 and the intro ends at 1:21 with the first section and main melody (B), followed at 1:45 by a variation before returning to B at 1:50. 2:05 sees the return of the variation (with a cymbal-heavy drum fill at 2:16). A breakdown at 2.25 (with the return of the rasping voices at 2.32) features the main melody on flute at 2:42. This flute part is continued with drum and bass accompaniment at 2:54 until at 3:08 where the sitar is heard in the background playing its melody. At 3:22 the main section B returns. 3:38 is another B1. For the final 50 seconds, all instruments bar an organ fade out until at 5:05, it too fades out.