Today I’m introducing you to the fourth track from the collaboration EP With. And this track is made by me and my buddy Erik Slättberg from Örebro. Erik is an amazing piano player which I have written about before, and you should just go ahead and check out everything Erik on the blog here!
Erik stated he wanted to write something in 5/4 pretty early. When I heard the piano track I was pretty sure I wasn’t gonna be able to add another piano to it… So that’s when I started experimenting with drums instead – since I am originally a drummer! The fun thing with working on this track for me is that I had, the week before, worked on another track (a singer songwriter song) by Anders Wiking which was also in 5/4. So I just sat down by my drum kit and started working on a beat. The rest just worked out! So here we go!
Tell us something about the track Seasons!
Seasons is my first track to be released as a collab (in my solo piano project).It is very different from the rest of my catalogue and the rest of Johans as well, and I think we both was a little surprised of how it turned out..hehe.Having a desire to create music with a wide range of emotion, I decided to create a track that was quite opposite to the calm, minimalistic approach that dominates the neoclassical piano genre. I send some piano tracks to Johan, consisting of rhythmic arpeggiated patterns in 5/4, were the melody was more or less embedded in the arpeggios. Johan then added most of the rest, such as drums, which turned the track into…well, i’m not sure if we really know the genre of this odd one. Maybe that is for everyone to decide.
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