Fiveflute from Haida (Raven) by David Miles Huber

This is a powerful piece that is based on the pulsating poly-rhythms of native drums. The synth bass adds a raw power to the piece, but the part that always gets my heart glowing is the syncopation between the synth and the bass (especially after the guitar break where the bass and two synth tracks interweave with each other. At the end, you’ll hear a haunting vocalization … this is Vi warning up for story on the final track. I took her voice, slowed it down and processed it into a haunting end in the original native language of the Western Washington region.

Tech: Starting off with the background crickets, these were recorded in the desert of Western Washington in the 1990s. The deep drums are a combination of older, personally-sampled native drums from a friend in Seattle, as well as newer Native Instruments drums. The repetitive “chiff” groove came from my older ASR-10 rack, which came with some of the first removable hard disk drives. The voice in the piece came from Vi Hilbert. Before doing the master take of her “Lady Louse” piece that appears on the title track “Raven”, Vi did a warm up rant. Of course, I recorded it and after processing, it became the perfect rant for this piece.

David Miles Huber is a 4X Grammy-nominated producer and musician in the electronic dance and surround-sound genres, whose music has sold over the million mark. His style is energized and balanced out by lush beats and live acoustic instruments that combine to create a “Zen-meets-Tech experience”.

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