Bertland
The musical universe of Bert Jackson

This is a little droney tune I wrote in 1984, on the day Indira Gandhi was assassinated (I didn’t know it at the time and named the piece when I found out). This is a “scratch” version I recorded last week in Garage Band to test how it would work with two guitars. The timing is off in places, but some people asked to hear it so here it is.

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Here’s a video of Manu Delago playing the Hang drum, a recent Swiss instrument, sort of like an inverted steel drum played with the fingers like a conga or tabla. Following the video threads to some of the other “Hangers on”. It has a very cool, droney sound with a surprising bass note in the center.