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Zebratropic

from Fooled By Yesterday by Emily Bezar

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Here's an electronic improvisation using only one rich and wobbly sound from the new virtual synth plug-in I was fiddling around with during that week in May, 2010. The instrument was called, appropriately, the Zebra Synth and I hit on a patch that shot me right back to the early 80s and all those 70s spacey synthstring patches that I missed so terribly when the vibe of electronic pop went all prickly and dry in the early days of L.A. New Wave. I also must have been musing that afternoon about the Film Orchestration class that I was scheduled to take and somehow I called upon my limited John Williams meets Bruckner via Holst meets Ravel chops for some of those juicy cadences and high clusters.

And the title: well....I'm calling this Zebratropic mostly to honor Urs Heckmann and his team of synth wizards at u-he.com who created the fantastic plug-in. Also a nod to Francis Ford Coppola and his Zoetrope Studios, a Hollywood icon who certainly inspired the filmic surrealism and neon romance that surged in me for those 6 minutes. The Vangelis connection is probably more conceptual than sonic....but I'm quite sure it starts with Blade Runner and runs right back into Phil K. Dick and his VALIS omniscient, Zebra. (To be continued because that's a long path to keep tracing.....)

And yeah it's an anagram of my last name of course -- but I guess you'd expect that from a lady who releases an album containing over half an hour of her springtime electronic wanking in a So Cal beach town.....!! :)

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from Fooled By Yesterday, released November 8, 2011
Written and Produced by Emily Bezar
©2011 Blue Countess Music, BMI

Emily Bezar: keyboards and electronics

Zebra Synth Info:
www.u-he.com/cms/zebra

Performed and Recorded by Emily Bezar at The Stone Room, Temple Hills Drive, Laguna Beach, CA on May 16, 2010

Mixed by Emily Bezar at Big Tree Studio, Oakland, CA, August 2011

Mastered by Ken Lee

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Emily Bezar creates intricate, uncategorizable music, drawing freely from classical, jazz, rock, pop and electronic genres to create an enchanting, dynamic sound world.

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