Disquiet Junto Project 0255: Capone’s Ghost
"I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man." – Al Capone
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I found a track I’d recorded on a strumstick, which I hope sounds enough like a banjo to get away with. This was multitracked, mixed down and treated with enough delay and reverb to hide the crappier bits.
I used some atmospheric bits of a track I was working on to create three foggy drones, then overlaid another made from the strumstick track, and another short one to zest the ending a bit.
Not sure if AC was any better than me on his instrument - Apparently Al was actually shanked in his cell while playing one day. He stood up and beat his attacker off with his banjo. So the story goes…
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Disquiet Junto Project 0255: Capone’s Ghost
What does the banjo music of the fabled criminal sound like?
Step 1: Ghost stories are prevalent throughout cultures. When they involve music, they manifest in ways that find parallels between two intangibles: ethereal presences, and a cultural form that you can, generally speaking, neither see nor touch. Now consider the case of Al Capone, who played banjo during his time on the famed prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay — a banjo that is said to be heard long after his death.
Step 2: Create a short piece of what you think Capone’s ghostly banjo sounds like.
http://llllllll.co/t/capones-ghost-disquiet-junto-project-0255/
More on this 255th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Capone’s Ghost: What does the banjo music of the fabled criminal sound like?” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0255/
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