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Teapot Rock

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Jill Fraser’s composition, Teapot Rock is named for a large teapot-shaped boulder standing sentinel on her desert property in Joshua Tree, CA. Originally purchased in 1990, it's a sanctuary of pristine gneiss rock formations among the yuccas. There are four movements in Teapot Rock, each named for dreams had while drifting asleep in a tiny 1953 canned ham trailer: Water, Stars, Coyote (a tribute to Jill’s late husband, Gregg Arreguin) and Rats (an ode to desert rats of all kinds). Teapot Rock was first performed by the zZyzx Society as an ensemble in fall of 2016 at Bobby Furst's FURSTWURLD, fittingly in Joshua Tree, CA with Chas Smith on his guitarzilla steel guitar.

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Teapot Rock was realized by Jill Fraser using her 1977 eight panel Serge Modular, Ableton Live, Push II and incorporating samples from the analog world, samples from the digital world and modified presets. Additional parts include Chas Smith playing pedal steal and bass pedal steal guitars on Coyote and Peter Grenader adding to Water (the tonic bass line via an Intelligel Shapeshifter's vocal output), Stars (the coda) and Rats (the sweeping sampled/processed mellotron descending phrases and synth solo in the last section via Battery and Equator softsynths with a ROLI keyboard controller).

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from The zZyzx Society, released March 30, 2018
Jill Fraser, composer
performed by The zZyzx Society
featuring Chas Smith (pedal steel guitar)

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