Saxophone Amethyst

I felt a desire to combine the Stick Guitar and the Soprano Sax in a relaxed and mesmerizing piece, and this is what I came up with. An important part of the orchestration is the live-looping of tape delays that I perform with an expression pedal while playing the Chapman Stick Guitar. I'd say that Stick performance recorded most aspects of the tune in just one first take. The tape delay looping of the six melody strings (played with the right hand, while keeping up finger-style accompaniment with left hand on the second 6-strings group) creates a kind of slow granular cloud atmosphere behind my melody playing. Much more intriguing than "the common synth pad", if you ask me :-) In fact, the Stick provided three musical parts simultaneously in one single performance (such a great instrument the STick is, I just love it!). Then the sax overdubbing the melody and the bass accentuating the deeper end is just "a bit more of what already is there". Hope you like it :-)