Intuition Unexplored from Babamadu - Bitama by Biboul Darouiche, Roberto Di Gioia, Adrian Mears

Adrian:
I composed this when I was experimenting with hexatonic scales. It has also a little bit to do with Richie Beirach, in whose music I was very interested at that time. I originally wrote it as a duo for piano and trombone, so the version we did here is something like the second movement of a suite. The bass is based on a hexatonic thing and also the melody. The take that appears on the Cd was actually the fifth take. As trombone players will notice the melody is very high, the middle part has all those long notes that really fucks up your emboucher and then it goes into the trombone solo. After that I´m playing the bass line behind the piano solo and then in the end its the theme again. So I´m playing all the time and we always did full takes, so after the fifth I was really finished. I couldn´t have done another one.

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