Abney Park Records With Band From Senegal? EXCLUSIVE FREE SONG

Well, sort of? This is a bit experimental, so bare with me.

There is a company I use for my music. It provides synth patches, and drums tones, and things like that for a monthly subscription. (Splice) It's mostly pretty bland stuff. For example, If a need a deep kick drum that's tuned to C#, and I can search that without wasting my time or inspirational flow. If I need an explosion, they have 50 to choose from.

Boring, right?  Well check this out:

Well, this site did something truly amazing. They went to Dakar, Senegal, Africa, and recorded with a African band there. But they didn't record songs, only parts. Like this:

"Eh, Seynabou, play a bass line in G minor."

"Okay".

*boom booppy boo bomb.*

"Nice!  Now do a different bass line in e Major!"

"Okay"

"Hey, Khalil, can you do a High Life guitar line in E major?"

"Sure! "

*deee de de deeeee!*

Etc.

So, from those recordings, they put together a hundred building blocks to put together a song from scratch, but in Senegal style, with Senegal players!  So then I put those blocks together, and wrote a song from them, and that song is posted here for your enjoyment!

When Paul Simon wrote his breakthrough album Graceland, they way he did it was he bought a cassette tape of instrumental African music, and just wrote songs on top of these finished recordings. My process here was similar, except I was actually putting together the arrangement myself, instead of just putting lyrics over the top of a finished song.

The result?  Well, its beautiful!  Very out of left field, as far as the Abney Park Sound goes, but as experimental music, I'd call this an absolute success! It just sounds WAY more Paul Simon then our usual music - which, being a big fan, I consider a good thing!