A song for Mount Durmitor

Jan 01, 2020, 01:04 PM

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Black Lake choir, Montenegro reimagined by Cities and Memory. I tried several routes into this reimagined piece, focusing on bringing out and highlighting elements of the lovely vocal lines in this bright, open-sounding recording - but everything sounded too, well, obvious with vocal-focused approaches. So the approach was shifted to making the piece something more aggressive-sounding, in opposition to the positivity of the recording. Vocal snippets were cut up and heavily effected to be used as instrumentation, rhythmic effects and sonic decoration around the stereo field to complement what's going on elsewhere - there are actually six tracks of the original vocal in here, but there's barely a discernible word, as the vocals are used as a sound source and an instrument to build out the mix.