This song was born of my desire to improvise around some familiar ideas and possibly discover some new ones.  Using familiar shapes and runs, perhaps I would come to appreciate them from a new angle, or juxtapose them in a way that I hadn’t before.  I wanted to explore textures, try to accent some of the notes in a different way, give the strings a staccato strum or two, play some lush harmonics.  Sometimes rather than trying to come up with something totally new, you want to explore the familiar ground of existing templates, maybe change them just a little – not to the point they’re unrecognizable, but to explore how they can be tweaked and see if it suits.  

In addition to trying out some musical ideas, I wanted to see how they would sound with a microphone I hadn’t used lately, recording with a different sound.  The mic I chose sounds crisp, picking up all the harmonic details and giving clear note separation.  It’s quiet, and also good at gathering room ambiance.  The bass is not as bold and the mid-scooped rosewood sound isn’t as prominent as another mic I had been using lately, but this mic would provide a nice, hi-fi, detailed sound – one I might now want to explore even more.  Anyway, sometimes it’s important to try something a little different with your sound, to record an improvisation and see what happens.  Hope you enjoy.