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Excellent Traveler Theme, with Idris's Tenor and Carlos's Percussion in San Francisco

by Nate Mercereau

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I've been making a lot of music with music. Part of my process in concerts and sessions has been live-sampling the band in the room, and then playing that sample with my guitar.

I have a microphone recording the room, and when something happens that I want to play, I select it and drop it into the sampler, then play it with midi-guitar. The sound of the musicians in the room becomes my "instrument." This is also part of the sound I brought to André 3000's album, New Blue Sun.

In the case of this song, "Excellent Traveler Theme, with Idris's Tenor and Carlos's Percussion in San Francisco," this is a one-take guitar performance, recorded in San Francisco at Different Fur Studios, containing a sample of myself, Idris Ackamoor and Carlos Niño from a concert we did at the SF Jazz Center last year. I wanted to take the live-sampler-guitar set up I've been using in group contexts and make my entrance into the solo guitar tradition, but come to it in a new way. I'm also using guitar synthesizers, but intentionally mic'd up the electric guitar so you can hear what's happening in a more traditional sense as well.

Thank you to SF Jazz Center, Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, Grace Coleman for engineering and recording, Patrick Brown for the studio time, and Alyssa and Juniper for being there with me.

Thank you to Idris and Carlos for being so open to me making more music with our music.

In Idris's words,

"There seems to be a natural evolution of our sound that spins out into more expanded concepts and adventures."

"It's a great track! Mysterious..haunting...intergalactic!"

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released December 8, 2023

Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synthesizer, Midi-Guitar Sampler playing a sample of Idris Ackamoor and Carlos Niño (and atmospheric San Francisco sounds), Voice

Recorded by Grace Coleman
Produced and Mixed by Nate Mercereau
Mastered by Kevin Marques Moo aka Daddy Kev

Photo by Nesanet Teshager Abegaze taken at the World Stage in Leimert Park. Special acknowledgement to Billy Higgins, Dwight Trible, Mama Nene and The World Stage.

Layout by Nneoma Akubuilo

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