Return of Raagini

recording notes on oneiric composition forty-one

. . . continued from Pioneer (an oneiric read-along)

	I found the Raagini electronic tanpura in an East Village music shop about twenty years ago. At the time, I was chasing down instrumentals & looking for textural tones, but not necessarily musical ones — the aural grain of a wetland in the summer, for example.

It has an audio output, but sounds best mic’d at its speaker, in this case with an Oktava MC 012. 

	I started with four minutes in C to improvise over with a Yamaha CP keyboard until a pattern appeared loosely settled in.

Then, I plugged in the Harmony Hollywood known as Junior to forage for the actual chords & discovered there were three sections. Next, I added two layers of hovering eBow.

I have an addiction to the Jazz Organ setting in the Casio SK-1 — tried to ignore it again & couldn’t, paired with the Flute.

Lastly, I ran Junior through an EH Canyon pedal’s Octave mode mostly because I had an extra track & just couldn’t turn down the temptation.