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Mermaid Man

by Sycamore Willow

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I've gotten a lot busier with work, so I need to scale back on the informational videos. But I can't stop making music! I've been slowly working on two albums in parallel (kind of a bad idea actually) and this song came about as I was experimenting with a bunch of gear. So, while working on two albums I guess I'll end up making the equivalent of a third by the time I'm done?

Anyway, I love how this track came together.

I first improvised on the lap harp into Blooper and then manipulated the loop in all kinds of ways with Habit and Ottobit. I had a simply enormous reverb going on my (newly acquired) Lexicon Model 200. It's a fantastic reverb. It doesn't sound like anything I own or have used before. It's fantastic.

After recording a pass of the manipulated lap harp, I improvised over it with my Concertmate 200 (rebranded Casio VL-1) into Blooper and Ottobit (mostly for the filter). This chain also went into the Model 200 but with a much less wet verb.

That's the whole track! All hail effects :)

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released March 26, 2023

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Sycamore Willow San Francisco, California

I love making murky music -- ambient, drones and even songs with beats. I use effects pedals, tape and other fun toys to design sounds and textures to create dreamy atmospheres. I'm forever making the soundtrack to an imagined film.

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