Discussing Clouds

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Having met and befriended acoustic guitarist Pete Rigg in my formative summer of 1997, we had a couple of impromptu jams before we decided in March of the following year to have a properly-multitracked session at his flat. We had discovered a mutual interest in the music of the Minimalists and this influence had crept into the music we made together.

The initial mixes lay on cassette tapes for 15 years before the opportunity arose to transfer them (via Pete's new digital multitrack recorder) to digital stems ready to digitally mix for a previously unavailable level of control. That March 1998 session eventually coalesced into the album Discussing Clouds, released on the 20th anniversary.

Jim Tetlow
8th March 2024

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released March 28, 2018

Recorded 28th March 1998 at Pete's flat, Leicester
Overdubbing of extra keyboards, didgeridoo & djembe April 1998
Digital transfer, overdubbing of cajón, mixing & editing July 2013

Pete Rigg: acoustic guitar
Jim Tetlow: keyboards, didgeridoo, djembe, cajón

Mastered by Chris Conway, November 2013
Cover painting & design by Jim Tetlow

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Opal Leicester, UK

The duo of acoustic guitarist Peter Rigg with keyboard player and percussionist Jim Tetlow. They shared an interest in minimalist music by people such as Terry Riley and their improvised jams were frequently suffused with patterns akin to this genre, either hand played or with primitive keyboard sequencing as the backdrop, embellished by Pete's finger-picking folkie guitar arpeggios and licks. ... more

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