We Love To Wash Our Hands, by Cyff Gwawd

We Love To Wash Our Hands

by Cyff Gwawd

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jim goodin very chill as the kids say :) lot of Eno influence and environmental is lovely in this. Kudos to Cyff and Richard S!

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	1.	We Love to Wash Our Hands -F 22:48
	2.	We Love to Wash Our Hands - Bb 17:42
	3.	We Love to Stretch and Drone 23:48

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"In 2011 I had a thought: What if a minimalist composer, like Reich, Glass, or Riley, wrote children's songs about things like washing your hands? The kids would wash their hands all day! Fast forward to 2020, and we're ALL washing our hands all day."
-Alex Sramek

Cyff Gwawd is Stuart Estell, a piano, and a barely-functional cassette recorder.

This album consists of versions of Alex Sramek’s piece “We love to wash our hands”, played considerably more slowly than Alex’s own performances. When transferring the recording to the computer, the cassette motor decided to play back only at high speed, so the Bb version is actually as it came out of the cassette player, overlaid multiple times. The raw track was then processed to bring it back to original pitch, and a “field recording” (recorded digitally!) of ambient lockdown sounds, recorded from our kitchen window in Redditch on a sunny spring afternoon, was added. The third and final track takes the field recording and adds a drone created by processing low piano notes.

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released May 3, 2020

Piano, tapes, and recording: Stuart Estell
Composition: Alex Sramek (tracks 1 & 2), Stuart Estell (track 3)

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