Unjust Intonation by Derek Monypeny

Unjust Intonation (aka Unequal Temperament, aka The Poorly-Tuned Guitar) consists of 4 short sections of my guitar playing run through a digital time-stretching effect, which pulled the sections into various long-duration forms like so much salt water taffy.

This process revealed fascinating (to me, anyway) sound-worlds not clearly present in the original recordings.

I don't consider this music to be ambient. If you can 'zone out' to it, though, Jah bless.

I want to thank Trouble In Mind for working with me on this project, and I also want to thank the many brilliant pioneers, giants, and current practitioners of what is inaccurately labeled as 'minimalist music' for their deep inspiration.

-Derek Monypeny, Yucca Valley, CA, March 2021

Born in the Arizona desert, a veteran of multiple explorations into the Sahara desert via Morocco and Western Sahara, and now a resident of the Mojave, Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over.