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I think the flute sample they use throughout those songs probably comes from an old toy keyboard― it sounds like something they'd use, right? I have an old casio with a flute preset that sounds fairly similar to the one they used. When you add a bit of delay, and some random ambient sounds, boom: http://puu.sh/kQIHu/f6e17b40c9.mp3

The woodwind sound on The Beach at Redpoint sounds different to me. It has a certain tone that makes me think it was recorded directly into a microphone.

That one definitely seems different to me too, I get what you mean― sounds like there's strings mixed in.
Also, I think the pad in “An Eagle In Your Mind” is a slowed down whistle. I tried playing it with a slowed down irish whistle recording I made and it seems pretty similar: http://puu.sh/kRhG6/21da0c5664.mp3

Hmmm...I don't know Cosmic. The tone in that song sounds a lot like an old yamaha synth or something. After further listening, maybe it is an old Irish whistle though:)

I noticed a while back that if you count the notes in Hey Saturday Sun it reads off as

1-2-3-4-5-6 1-2-3-4-5-6 1-2-3-4-5-6

And then it has a pause and repeats itself. It does this four times for the melody.
Ever since I've noticed it I count to 6 every time I listen to the song.

rick7487 wrote:I noticed a while back that if you count the notes in Hey Saturday Sun it reads off as

1-2-3-4-5-6 1-2-3-4-5-6 1-2-3-4-5-6

And then it has a pause and repeats itself. It does this four times for the melody.
Ever since I've noticed it I count to 6 every time I listen to the song.

If you mean the guitar arpeggio it's actually
123456, 1234567, 123456
123456, 123456, 1234567
123456, 12345, 123456
123456, 1234, 123456

It's in 4/4 like all boc

ALL BOC?!? What's Sunshine Recorder then?!? Or Jacquard Causeway

realspiel wrote:It's in 4/4 like all boc

He's not talking about time signatures, he's talking about notes per guitar figure.

I just wanted to react to something that has been said here : the lady really utters "look up there" on the track A is to B as B is to C, and not soixante-sept (67 in french), far from it - even if I admit that the two pronunciation could be very similar. It's just the lady has no french accent.

All of Geogaddi is in a nonwestern notescale. Just as Aquarius

Stavorius wrote:All of Geogaddi is in a nonwestern notescale. Just as Aquarius

I think that Beware the Friendly Stranger, The Smallest Weird Number, Over the Horizon Radar, and Diving Station all use western scales. On-topic, starting at about 4:40 in Alpha and Omega, you can hear a woman screaming in the background until the end of the song.

Stavorius wrote:All of Geogaddi is in a nonwestern notescale. Just as Aquarius

what do you mean by this?

as mentioned above, the piano chords on Diving Station sounds like straight up western diatonic harmony. Also, BoC are using keyboards to record a lot of melodies which are most likely tuned equal temperament.

d e n wrote:

Stavorius wrote:All of Geogaddi is in a nonwestern notescale. Just as Aquarius

what do you mean by this?

as mentioned above, the piano chords on Diving Station sounds like straight up western diatonic harmony. Also, BoC are using keyboards to record a lot of melodies which are most likely tuned equal temperament.

Try playing Aquarius on piano while it's playing in the background. The groundnote of the first chord is already between F and F#

Aah! That's 'concert pitch' you're referring to rather than western scales.

Yes!

cool .. i wouldn't be surprised.

i suppose i was responding to the "all of geogaddi" part.

i don't have perfect pitch though, maybe if i tried to workout the piano in diving station it wouldn't come out through a piano tuned equal temperament!

The tuning is probably slightly "off" due to use of tape, slowing it down etc.

FortonServices wrote:The tuning is probably slightly "off" due to use of tape, slowing it down etc.

Could be. I think Aquarius is due to the samples being slowed down. Still, Music is Math..