Release Week: A Song a Day, Part 1
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To celebrate the official release of Zubatto Syndicate, we’ll be sharing one song from the record each day with some behind-the-scenes thoughts about the music. We’re also offering the download of Zubatto Syndicate as “pay what you want” from now until the release party on June 11th! Pay nothing or pay $20 – you decide .
Arrival (Z27)
Arrival came from a desire to use the “get in, get out” song structure that is more common in hard core or punk music than in jazz. A song by a band like Bad Brains will explode out of nowhere, have a couple of verses and chorus, maybe a guitar solo and then some kind of short tail. There’s no big bridge or return to the form – a burst of energy that builds into a final climax.
Often those kinds of songs are set openers and Arrival was written to be just that. Here’s your introduction to the band, with maybe some small hints about what you might hear from the rest of the record. The title is a direct reference to this idea, along with the obvious sci-fi connotations. The intro is a bit of space-age weirdness – maybe a little bit of a wink to how a group of this instrumentation might go in any entirely different direction under other circumstances. The alto solo is by Mark Taylor.
