Each day for a week, we’re releasing one track from Snow Panda’s Ombak mixes. On Wednesday, October 28, Snow Panda will perform with Ombak at Cous Cous. Today’s track is “Hooten.”

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Snow Panda says:

It’s basically a play on the frenzied rhythms Bryan writes into some his music.  I wanted to take the “Aware” rhythms and deconstruct them a little further.  To counterbalance the beginning I had to straighten everything out for the middle section and turn it into a dance party for a bit with a Hooten trombone choir accompanying a chopped together Trey solo, not to mention Cameron’s sweet bass line.

Ombak’s Bryan Hooten says:

A newly self-aware robot makes its first attempts and autonomous movement. Rapid fire balance calculations can’t quite reign in the clumsy unfurling of its limbs.

RVAJazz says:

The intro is distinctly “Aware,” the trombone choir in the middle section could be from anything, but it’s beautiful. Leading up to the climax, Bryan’s un-manipulated A section is heard for the first time in its entirety, while Trey’s alien guitar swirls and cymbals and bass crescendo. The piece ends on the fabricated bridge in 5/4 that we were introduced to earlier, succumbing to a drone and cymbals.

7 Responses to “Snow Panda’s Ombak Mixes: 1. Hooten”

1. 1. mattwhite says:

   omg, snow panda is a dark lord wizard of some kind

   on October 21st, 2009 at 11:42 am

2. 2. Tommy Beekman says:

   Brilliant.

   on October 21st, 2009 at 12:33 pm

3. 3. Bryan H. says:

   Yeah, Matt, I’m pretty sure I saw all these 20-sided dice at his house.

   on October 21st, 2009 at 12:56 pm

4. 4. KChang says:

   One listener (not me) says it “sounds like a bumblebee.”

   on October 21st, 2009 at 1:21 pm

5. 5. Dean says:

   I can hear that. “Bumblebee bumblebee. Bumblebee bumblebee.” Something like that?

   on October 21st, 2009 at 7:16 pm

6. 6. Bryan H. says:

   Whoa. Yeah. Is this simultaneously a Transformers reference?

   on October 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 am

7. 7. KChang says:

   sure to both of those questions . it’s whatever you want it to bee .

   on October 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 pm