Mumbai (12,759 / 420)

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Immersion Composition Society Session Sunday 26 April, 2020

Second composition of the day.

Part of a series of compositions written inspired by towns in which I've lived. Jazz India enrolled me in their Jazz India Vocal Institute in the Fall of 1997. I studied thumri with master singer Dhanashree Pandit-Rai. Meanwhile, I stayed in the 5-star Oberoi Hotel, and to pay for room and board I sang in the Bayview Lounge there 5 nights a week, 2 sets a night with George and the Soft Rock Revolution.

The chords/melody are loosely based on the number of infected and dead in India when I started this project. (12,759/420).

I wondered what the words should be. Then I remembered that Princess Di had just died in an auto accident, and Candle In The Wind quickly became her anthem. Almost every evening an audience member would hand me a request for that song in the form of a folded up piece of paper. I found Candle in the Wind darkly humorous, and appropriate for the general theme of this series.

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Candle in the wind

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from Amy Denio: Corona Sonora, released April 3, 2020
Composed, recorded and produced by Amy Denio.
Amy Denio: basses, alto sax, voice, mridangam sample from Freesound.org
c 2020 Spoot Music, ASCAP

Mastered by Steve Turnidge at Ultraviolet Studios, Seattle.

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Amy Denio / Spoot Music Hansville, Washington

Home taper since high school, Denio has composed & recorded 600+ songs ~ solo & with artists all over the world. .

She's received awards, fellowships & commissions for her soundtracks for modern dance, film, TV, theater, websites.

She founded Tone Dogs (1987-1991),Tiptons Sax Quartet (1988-present) plays in Kultur Shock (1999-present) and Correo Aereo (2004-present).

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