CaravanListen (2.66 Mb)Background:The Hotsynth version of Duke Ellington's "Caravan" is not directly based on any existing recording, but a free arrangement. After finishing the piece though, we have noted some unintentional stylistic inspiration from the song "La Habanera" with Yello, especially in the beginning of our Caravan. Unlike most other SHotQ productions, we used no analogue synthesizers for this. There were none at hand at the time. This was also the first time we made serious use of ReBirth, which (synchronized to Cubase via ReWire) supplies all drums except for in the solo section (where a customized Nord Lead drum kit is used). The original ReBirth drum sounds (emulated 808 and 909) are used, since we hadn't at that time created our "SHotQ Jazz Machine" mod (see Topzy). Caravan also is the debute number for our handy Zoom Studio 1202 effects processor, which acts as reverb, vocoder and pitch delay (in the solo). Sound Sources:Propellerheads ReBirth RB-338 2.0 Other Equipment:Zoom Studio 1201 effects processor Interesting Facts:The foot steps in the slow part (after the tap dancing solo) is a recycling of sounds from the "Watchmakers Workshop" section of Limehouse Blues The annoyingly distorted voice at the end of the song speaks a quote from "Caravan of Love" by The Housemartins. This cannot be heard though. The quotation is even wrong. |
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