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Mes Aynak Nears Midnight

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This started when playing around with the Electro Harmonix Ravish Sitar effect. What developed out of that is the basic guitar track and drone. From there, came the sense of this being sort of a Central Asian reverie with some of the embellishments and mixing of styles that might have happened there a millennium or two ago, We get an anachronistic Latin-ish ryhythm in the bass over the Central Asian percussion, and a slide guitar evocation of a Indian Vina(!). Despite what this suggests, the kitchen sink does not make an appearance, and restraint was maintained to some degree.
The title refers to a real place (that I've never been) in Afghanistan. It was once the type of place where my imagined reverie might actually have taken place. Regrettably, "nearing midnight" relates to the fact that it sits on a vast amount of copper that China has had eyes on, and now the Taliban is back. Meanwhile, it was once a great commercial and spiritual center for Central Asian Buddhism, and it contains cultural and archaeological resources that face a troubled future in the early 21st century.

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released November 19, 2021
Composed, performed (guitars,bass, softsynths and drums), recorded, produced and engineered by John Schwetje at Swetchsongs Studios, Long Island, NY. Copyright Swetchsongs, 2021.

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Jswetch is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with many years of playing experience in varied settings. He's influenced by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Neil Finn, John McLaughlin, XTC, Oregon, Todd Rundgren, Keith Jarrett, Weather Report, The Beatles, Hendrix, Jack Bruce, 70's Prog, Pat Metheny, and Fairport Convention. A little of all this filters into his own unique songs, sound, and musical vision. ... more

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