$200.00
The Mandol Bunch is a 2024 album from the innovative solo music project, A Micron, showcasing the latest instrument to join the group – the mandocello. Each song attempts to discover more about the quality and quantity of sounds of which this fascinating instrument is capable.
As is usual, many tracks are one-takes and practically all versions are just sketches. It makes for a more raw, unpolished, guerilla-music listening experience, which many people are craving nowadays.
Description
Notes and Lyrics:
Manche 1: Prelude
Solo piece for mandocello (most of these are!).
Manche 2: Allemande
Solo piece with a canonical exposition, accompanied a due voces.
Lyrics:
If the dog barks at you, don’t be afraid.
If nothing better, show him you’re brave.
Maybe he’ll feed you if you behave.
We are feeling the infinite edifice avalanche all along octagon, one-and-done hope, opposed to loons and toons and goons.
Manche 3: Courante
Solo piece, written as a response to the introspection of Manche 2, accompanied by drum set.
Manche 4: Sarabande
Solo, accompanied by drum set and background instrumentation.
Manche 5 and 6: Minuet I & II
Akin to jam/rock songs in G and C, resp.
Manche 7: a la Fuga
Fugal voices for two mandocellos (or other instruments).
Manche 8: Gavotte
Jam song.
Manche 9: Canon al Reverso
Fully-reversible canon for multiple voices,
Manche 10: Trimetria
Fugal round of three voices, following A Micron’s very own Trimetric Scale©.
Manche 11: Etude
The melody is helpful to practice for improved finger dexterity and movement along the fingerboard.
Manche 12: Interlude
Simple singsong tune.
Lyrics:
Be vegetableful and spread joy; be fruitful and multiply.
Milk and honey so divine, self-divide.
Steak and potatoes reproducing – we produce them.
Manche 13: Caprese
Duet for two mandocellos, with b & d and ocarinas.
Manche 14: Syncopathy
Preview of A Micron’s Integration Theory Ⓒ and the insane possibilities it offers.
