The Broken Kawai, by Peter Wright

The Broken Kawai

by Peter Wright

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	1.	The Broken Kawai 10:23
	2.	Sugar Train 09:00
	3.	Driver 03:00
	4.	Spoke 09:02
	5.	Roulette 08:55

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A long out of print CDr originally issued on Pseudoarcana in 2002, culled from various recordings made during that year. The result is a fairly eclectic album of misfits and experiments that didn't quite fit onto any other album but I felt were still worthy of putting into the public domain in some form.

The title track was named after a battered Kawai electric guitar, actually the first guitar I ever owned, which while broken was still capable of emitting a tortured whine by stretching the snapped strings taut and running an eBow over it. I still use it occasionally, most recently at a live show a couple of years ago.

Spoke was a piece constructed entirely out of digitally processed recordings of bicycle wheels - just because I could, and Driver features some ham-fisted percussion in the form of real drums belonging to a real drummer (thanks Rustle!).

Now available again for the first time in 13 years with new cover artwork included in the download file.

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released August 1, 2015

Recorded at Marriner Street, Sumner, New Zealand, February - October 2002.
Guitars, Clarinet, Percussion, Bicycle, The Broken Kawai

Original CDr issued on PseudoArcana (2002)

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Peter Wright Lyttelton, New Zealand

Est. 1969. Specialists in layered fragments of guitar, environmental recordings and electronic effects.

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