The Sonny Downs Quartet presents The Village Pond

The Village Pond was composed over 2020 to 2021 on a Buchla 200e modular synthesizer.
No external MIDI devices or DAW were used. All pieces were live-performed and recorded direct to stereo.
Untempered just intonation is used throughout, with up to 11-limit ratios. Each piece employs a different heptatonic scale.
A very small amount of compression and distortion has been used. The result is an album which does not sound loud, but rather retains dynamic impact, deep bass and clean highs that will reward a good set of speakers or headphones.
The album has been beautifully mastered and released on vinyl in a run of 150 pressings.
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[@felixahl9]

First listen now, this is just beautiful!

[@thesonnydownsquartet9340]

Glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully you have checked out the whole album on Bandcamp!

[@felixahl9]

@@thesonnydownsquartet9340 I did, went through it twice back to back, great work!

[@browe]

Still enjoying the LP that I received earlier this year! Actually, just put it on the 'table again today and listened straight through both sides.

[@thesonnydownsquartet9340]

Hey Brian! So happy to hear it. Comments like this make it worthwhile :)

[@browe]

@@thesonnydownsquartet9340 Right on! I have to wait a bit for my own 200e 10-panel system to be built (an extension of my 208C) but very much look forward to experimenting! 😄