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DomraTEK

by GerenM

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David Hilowitz released a couple of new instruments for Decent Sampler this past week, and I started fooling around with one of them -- the Domra. DomraTEK is the result.

The domra is a traditional mandolin or mountain dulcimer-like instrument from Ukraine and surrounding areas. Traditionally, it's either plucked or strummed. but David included a bowed version as well for his Patreon subscribers. So, the cello-like drone tones are the bowed sample. The off-kilter plucked part is the domra plucked instrument.

Everything else in this piece is also a Decent Sampler instrument, including the kalimba, the Vietnamese dan bau, the bass, and the drums. Effects are either Ableton stock effects or David's Refractions pattern delay/reverb, with Ozone 11 Elements used for mastering.

The song makes heavy use of repeating sequences and extended arpeggios inspired in part by the Berlin School approach to music making. The Eastern European roots of the primary instrument informed the choice of key and scale: G Hungarian minor.

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released February 19, 2024

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GerenM Westminster, Maryland

GerenM has been making music in one way or another for most of his life, and now unleashes his original ambient and electronic creations on you, the unsuspecting public!

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