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from Sequence by Rice Cracker Project

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There’s a lot to say about this recording. It’s simple and yet extremely complex at the same time. This was literally the first digital recording done by Rice Cracker Project which consists of me, Nick Wilcox, and Stephen Prescott. To set levels as an engineer at the helm for the first time on one our projects, Nick programmed a drum machine while Stephen played the rhythm guitar and I played the lead guitar. It was totally improvised and done in one take. The sounds we used on our guitars were strange to say the least, but we liked the end result. Out of 3 minutes, only about 1 minute and 40 seconds was usable. We decided to shelve it for our first album. When our second album was coming up, I ended up spending more time mixing and layering this song just to make it somewhat presentable. It almost got shelved a second time but I managed to clean it up enough to be interesting. I added the strange sound effects at the beginning and ending of the song to add more time to it, making it nearly 2 minutes in length. It lacked a bass part so I overdubbed that in one day. I also added some backwards drums. For the ending, I tacked on feedback that was used from a different unused track of a song and layered crickets chirping in the background. I had the crickets recorded from a mono cassette recorder I had back in the mid 80’s, recorded from my parent’s back yard (which is now The CELL BLOCK Studio, ironically.) I also added some talking effects from a lady friend of mine—messages she left on my answering machine. You can almost hear her but it’s more subliminal and that’s the way I wanted it to be. For the ending of the song, I recorded a clock in my home studio and tacked that on. The idea of that has many meanings, from the album itself which has a theme about “time” to a close friend of ours, who was a drummer, that passed away from cancer. The ticking starts off quietly and gets louder, and then stops completely, representing life itself. I see life as something that starts off slowly and quietly, then builds and builds until there isn’t anything left—that you’ve gone as far as you’re going to go in this life. It’s also a meaning of life that gets cut too short. One minute you’re there, the next, you’re gone. Technically the song ends there and so does the album (called SEQUENCE.) The very last sound you’ll hear on this track is a door slamming shut (which was recorded in my home music studio.) However, if you keep listening for a couple more seconds on the actual CD album, you’ll hear another track which is Dan, our late drummer, who says, “Okay, now we’re recording.” Though it’s not an actual part of this song or track, it’s the ending tag to our album itself.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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from Sequence, released December 27, 2013
Wayde K. Brown-Stephen Prescott-Nick Wilcox

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I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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