Given that I wanted the tune to be the centrepiece I used approached the composition in a different manner. Rather than starting out with the kick and bassline as I often do, I sat down with a guitar, decided on the implied harmonic movement and made sure that I had definitively composed the entire tune before booting up the sequencer.
Once I had the tune, I built the track up around it. The Other Side The initial basic idea for this piece was to write a melodic section over a couple if implied chords and then to create a second contrasting, spookier section to alternate it with in the ABABAB manner common to most other styles of music other than trance.
However, with all the best intention in the world, the track soon took on a life of it's own and demanded that I added another section which served to build tension before the melodic sections which repeats again later and then a couple of breakdowns, and then an added climactic section and so on and so forth. I find this often happens during the process of creating music and over the years I have learned to become sensitive to it and to listen and follow orders by adding and removing parts and ideas as neccesary until the track is through with telling me how it wants to be.
At this point the track is usually complete and just needs to be mixed down. In this particular case it appeared to have a lot to say about itself, with the result that I ended up with a track that was longer and very much more complex in terms of arrangement than my original idea.
Martian Blues "Oh my God, who was this? Santana was a huge musical influence on me, and Carlos' reaction to Hendrix in an interview I found on the Internet was the catalyst that inspired the concept for this blues flavoured, guitar riff driven, galloping psychedelic mayhem. The bluesy acoustic guitar intro theme developed from an idea that I was noodling with in a dropped D tuning on Tristan's acoustic guitar while laying in a hammock in Trancoso, Brazil.
Tristan remarked, "Why don't you put that into a track? Sometimes you need someone else to tell you something obvious.
So what does a Martian playing the blues sound like? Well, given that the first time I ever heard an overdriven TB in a track, to me it sounded like an alien instrument from another planet and given that the is to dance music what the guitar is to rock, then a Martian playing the blues might sound a just a little like the overdriven freak-out during the last "race to the finish" section in this track.
The music, following on from the theme of the book attempts to use music to evoke images of the soul's journey into and through several metaphysical locations in the state between death and eventual physical rebirth.
Of course. Nevertheless, despite being an overly ambitious and impossible task, as a compositional device, I find using music to try to evoke locations and states of being does serve to engage my imagination much more fully in the creative process. It can also be a lot more fun. So, does the finished music describe a journey through several states of being? I like to think that I captured something. Does it actually describe the soul's journey? Well, who knows Spanish Gypsy Until quite recently I lived the Sierra Guadarrama mountains in Spain for several years where I was exposed to a lot of excellent Flamenco music, which is the music of the Gypsies or Romani.
Being a guitarist myself I couldn't help but get sucked into figuring out how to play this style on guitar. While I was learning, I was struck by the similarity between Flamenco and North African and Indian music and when I analysed it, I found that they share certain musical scales. So the original inspirationalbspark began with the possibility of combining all these musical threads into one piece of music.
So, I started by creating the melody on a Flamenco scale, over the rhythm of the Pasa Doble with it's semi-tone harmonic movement and mixed that with certain elements of the older Indian influenced Goa-trance sound, but built it all on a foundation of the big kick and bass from the more modern Psy-Trance sound. Later I dusted off the steel strung! The track you hear is the result of this weird musical synthesis of Goa, Psy trance, Flamenco and the Pasa Doble.
Bill Halsey, the man behind Cosmosis side projects: Abraxas, Mumbo Jumbo is a former professional guitarist from London. He performed TV and radio gigs and played with countless bands, playing Rock, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Pop and Hip-Hop, composing and and recording music for ten years before an epiphany with dance music in the early 90's caused him to pursue creating electronic music instead Contact cosmosis.
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This idea along with an already existing notion of mine to create a track purely based around a strong central melody were combined for this track. I derived the melody from an Arabic sounding scale because to me it sounds kind of wiggley and serpentine and often seems to suggest snake charmer music.
Given that I wanted the tune to be the centre piece I approached the composition in a different manner.
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