This song started with a recording of Eric playing bass on his 16th birthday in 1996, with new strings and a new used Boss stereo bass flanger. I twisted the knobs as he played a riff he'd recently written that I really liked. Two days later I recorded four tracks of acoustic guitar, improvising some bits and melodies over the cool bass line. Another two days later, I mixed in two 19-second loops of recordings my friend Ayman had made in 1995 of Berry Creek in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park near Santa Cruz, CA. Then I recorded two vocal tracks singing words I'd written in April about my favorite grove of sycamore trees along Six Mile Creek in Ithaca, NY.

Released on the album leave a trace in 1997. Recorded with OSC's Deck II on an Apple Macintosh Centris 660AV. It was truly amazing in 1996 to be able to work with up to 6 tracks of CD-quality audio on a Mac that had "only" a 25 MHz CPU and 8 MB of RAM and a piece of software that cost $250. It was ProTools for the masses, truly revolutionary for ordinary recording musicians to be able to record with this quality for so little money.

Thanks for listening!

-Andy

sycamore river rush

sycamores
run under
fall
curly tree tops
fill
      fractal
space with tiny
balls
      seeds
fall
under wonder
sycamores

river

rush
boulders scrape
tumble under
water
      brown
full
under water
rockscape
      roll
feel
      blood
rush

Lyrics by Andy Wyatt on 17 April 1996
Music by Eric Krivitzky and Andy Wyatt on 20 + 22 June 1996
©1996 by Andy Wyatt & Eric Krivitzky