Santur Clause from Unquiet Mind by Denis Larose

This one came to ma as I sat on my front porch in the form of the initial bass line. I quickly booted my Man, opened a new file in Logic Pro and captured it. There is a possibility I was drinking beer or something that late afternoon, as I watched and listened to the birds, chipmunks, squirrels, toads, crickets and other as yet to be determined fauna.

Despite the title, there is very little saunter played in this song, and it's heavily effected at that.Tabla is prominent, as is koto and some West African percussion.

It's just that the phrase jumped into my mind... Santur Clause... a combination of a jolly fat man playing santur and a stipulation on a legal document, referring to saunter for some obsure reason. We all know that legalese is purposefully vague, a maze of obfuscation, exceptions, demands and denial of responsibility.

Make of that what you will, friends.

out,
Denis

Brought up in suburban Boston in the 60s, I began guitar lessons at 11. I learned classical method with Pat Petracca until I was 17, when I moved to Okinawa for 3 years and met many incredible jazz musicians from all over and explored world music in earnest. I dabbled in recording off and on, then got busy with life. In my late 50s, I got the resources and wherewithal to produce music.
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