Chanedra was a word I came up with in a dream, which the dream defined as, "A hole in the ground through which Hell passes."
I composed Chanedra during my senior year at Brown University. It was probably the first piece that I composed on guitar, where I relied on standard music notation to write it out while I was working up the riffs. The influence of Red-era King Crimson should be pretty obvious to the listener!
It's the first time drummer John Roulat and I recorded original music together. John and I would later work together in the band Bone with bassist/composer Hugh Hopper. Today John plays drum in my metal band Häßliche Luftmasken, and I am thrilled to continue working with him, as well as having a look back at our origins together!
I am grateful to my friend Pat Eastman, who played the beautiful piano intro to this piece.
Guitar was a Gibson L6-S with a DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup into a Lab Series head, into a Marshall 1960a 4x12 cab.
Photo of Nick and John by Scott Friedlander (NOT contemporaneous with the recording).
Chanedra has never been released before.
credits
from Now I Do This,
released November 20, 2021
Nick Didkovsky - electric guitar, electric bass, alto recorder, percussion
Pat Eastman - piano
John Roulat - drums
Recorded at MacColl Studio For Electronic Music, Brown University in 1980
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