"I'll give you some background. Neukoln is an area of Berlin which is primarily Turkish and I had to work out a way of putting a Turkish modal thing into it. It was very hard for me to use that scale against the background, so that probably produced the humorous aspect." The squawking sax as opposed to the very ethereal basic track...? "Yes, and whole notes where one would take a half note, it goes into whole notes on the Turkish scale. So it was really difficult to keep it going. Yeah (laughs). There's kind of a lot of Ornate Coleman at the end of it."
Quite an interesting interview focused solely on his saxophone playing!
Re: Rant?
Date: 2009-10-06 10:39 am (UTC)"I'll give you some background. Neukoln is an area of Berlin which is primarily Turkish and I had to work out a way of putting a Turkish modal thing into it. It was very hard for me to use that scale against the background, so that probably produced the humorous aspect." The squawking sax as opposed to the very ethereal basic track...? "Yes, and whole notes where one would take a half note, it goes into whole notes on the Turkish scale. So it was really difficult to keep it going. Yeah (laughs). There's kind of a lot of Ornate Coleman at the end of it."
Quite an interesting interview focused solely on his saxophone playing!