Al Capone's Ghost Banjo - disquiet0255
Published by DD
What does the banjo music of the fabled criminal sound like?
I don’t play banjo, I don’t have one. But I do have a QinQin, (sort of “Chinese banjo”) I bought in Beijing 15 years ago, so I picked it up and made a little recording this morning.
The actual un-treated un-pitch-shifted instrument sounds like this
Now how to link Al Capone to China? Well I let you guys make that connexion, but let’s face it: everything seems to come from China nowadays, or at least have a “budget counterpart” made in China, like guitars that have an expensive US version and a cheap-almost-identical-in-looks-no-so-identical-in-quality Chinese version, let’s say that wherever he is, Al needed a new banjo and all he could get was a Chinese budget replica, a QinQin. This is exactly how Capone’s ghost playing a Chinese Banjo sounds, believe me!
I recorded 2 tracks of the instrument, one melody and another strumming a single chord, and what you hear is just that source material, chopped down, pitch shifted and passed through a couple of convulsion reverbs.
Performed DD in the morning of November 18th, 2016 @ Paris, france.
What does the banjo music of the fabled criminal sound like?
Ghost stories are prevalent throughout cultures. When they involve music, they manifest in ways that find parallels between two intangibles: ethereal presences, and a cultural form that you can, generally speaking, neither see nor touch. Now consider the case of Al Capone, who played banjo during his time on the famed prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay — a banjo that is said to be heard long after his death.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0255: Capone’s Ghost
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