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Yazbek was the result of a visit to
the neighbors across the alley from our recording
studio in Pasadena, CA. Vahé and Sonia had just acquired
a nice shopping mall organ, and during their
demonstration of it they played, sharing the keyboard, an Armenian
folk song which they called "Yazbek."
I happened to have brought along to their living room
our 2-track mixdown deck, our trusty Echoplex, and some SM-58s.
As Vahé and Sonia
played, I recorded the output of their stereo speakers
dry on one track, and manipulated the signal from the
other speaker with the Echoplex onto the other track.
We took this recording back to our studio, transferred it to
our old Tascam 80-8, added bass,
guitar, drums and vocals and came up with
this version (.au)
of the song.
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