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Overture of Machines

from The Parkway Tapes by Xrisville

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In the 1980s while attending Sheridan College in Oakville, I sat down one afternoon at a Rhodes electric piano in a room just off of the library. The piano was one of many set in the room for music lessons. As I’d done back in the 1970s with the song “Waves,” I began playing inspirationally and luckily plugged in a cassette to the Rhodes to record what would come. After about 20 minutes, a teacher came in from the classroom next door to tell me I was disturbing his class and that I was to stop playing. Unfortunately, the recording I made that day degraded quickly on the cheap cassette I’d used. Fortunately, it lasted long enough that I could study it and re-compose sections of it for what stands as one of the pieces of music I’m most proud of—a prog-rock-type song that encompasses the many emotions of that day so long ago. Recording equipment: Roland D-10 synth, Trax MIDI software, original Windows system, Toshiba laptop. Original recording from degraded 20-year-old audio tape, re-mastered as best as possible given the condition of the source material.

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from The Parkway Tapes, released July 16, 2014

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The musical archive of writer-composer-visual artist Xristopher Bland.

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