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A side-piece for the fifth week of the Disquiet Junto project.

I followed the Junto rules for that week by using a field recording. As I did not have the means to make my own, I retrieved one from archive.org (linked below), in this case a piece called "Nagasaki Homage Ritual Field Recording". The person who made the recording describes it as follows:

"Representatives of various areas in Nagasaki get together to form a group that visit other areas to pay homage. They play various types of Japanese percussion along the way, and some groups add flutes and trumpets into the mix. Once they reach another area's designated spot, they stop and chant for a bit as a way of saying hello and good luck for the coming year."

As the recording had traditional Japanese instruments, I felt I should enhance them and make it into a piece of my own by adding layers of beatless sounds. It also reminded me a little of the music found in media based on those Japanese ghost stories known as kaidan (怪談), so I tried to evoke that kind of feeling, something a little ominous.

The title of the piece is named after the amulets one can get at a Shinto shrine, omamori (御守) which are used for protection or good luck. Although the description of the field recording does not explicitly say so, it sounds very much like a Shinto ritual, so I wanted to use a term evocative of that religion.

www.archive.org/details/NagasakiHomageRitualfieldRecording
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omamori
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaidan

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from Weekly Transmissions: Disquiet Junto Vol. 1, released March 17, 2012

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