35 short pieces for a broken guitar, by jez riley french

35 short pieces for a broken guitar

by jez riley french

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	1.	one 01:14
	2.	two 01:00
	3.	three 00:50
	4.	four 01:01
	5.	five 01:02
	6.	six 00:59
	7.	seven 01:02
	8.	eight 01:01
	9.	nine 01:01
	10.	ten 01:00
	11.	eleven 01:02
	12.	twelve 00:16
	13.	thirteen 01:01
	14.	fourteen 00:52
	15.	fifteen 01:01
	16.	sixteen 01:05
	17.	seventeen 01:01
	18.	eighteen 01:05
	19.	nineteen 01:01
	20.	twenty 01:02
	21.	twenty one 01:02
	22.	twenty two 01:02
	23.	twenty three 01:02
	24.	twenty four 01:01
	25.	twenty five 01:02
	26.	twenty six 01:01
	27.	twenty seven 01:01
	28.	twenty eight 02:03
	29.	twenty nine 01:01
	30.	thirty 01:01
	31.	thirty one 01:02
	32.	thirty two 01:01
	33.	thirty three 01:01
	34.	thirty four 01:01

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thirty four of the pieces could be retrieved from the cd-r archive. Piece 35 could not.

These pieces were recorded in the 1990’s. There isn’t a date on the disc and the minidisc they were probably recorded direct to has yet to be found in those archives. That said the guitar featured was one that I purchased in the early nineties and always had a high neck. As I remember the pick-up and bridge later developed faults, rattles and quirks. Some of the pieces, recorded in a single session, still work, one or two seem awkward, but as a set I can find something in them.

 I kept the guitar a few more years, repairing it as I could, touring with it in the early 2000’s and then sold it. Naive as they are, the recordings have in them the materiality of my attempts to draw something from the faults, and of my own hand, slightly tired at the time.

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released August 6, 2021

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