Eritromea

"I didn't know much about Eritrea, or its history, so it was interesting to dig deeper in to that history and that of Eritrean culture, the Eritrean diaspora and the church in Rome where the field recording was made. I kept the field recording as it was, and looped it for ten minutes, as I found the recording powerful and wanted to keep that going throughout the piece, and to construct the musical composition in interaction with it. 

"I also reversed and slowed down the field recording, and played that alongside the original, with a bass drone in B on a Doepfer synthesizer (as the field recording is roughly in the key of B). I then wrote and recorded a short piece on acoustic guitar in the key of B in response to the field recording, which I looped, and created three other tracks of the same acoustic guitar piece on different timed interweaving loops slowed down, reversed and sped up. 

"I then wrote a series of lines on the Korg Delta synthesizer, interacting and building from that, with some looped, and the two main parts of melody and harmony played live. All effects are analogue courtesy of Electro Harmonix pedals. The final mix of the recording was mastered by Iwan Morgan."

Eritrean church in Rome reimagined by Evolution Of Beauty.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration