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Senescent Unterweissbach Shepherdess by Andy Nechaevsky

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Album Title: Secret Life of Button Boxes: Red Box
Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 00:42:51

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About the Album

The track (4:06) opens with two minutes of intense, free improvisation - a sonic storm of multiple kalimbas (tuned into Moorish Phrygian, Super Locrian, Harmonic Minor and Blues scales) that sounds like a mirrored sideboard full of glass being shaken. A low, growling cello enters at the one-minute mark, moving at half-speed, creating a tectonic shift in the atmosphere.

The piece then hauntingly transitions into a stylized "music box" improvisation. It revolves around a repetitive, eerie theme that cycles with fluid variations, challenging the listener with its relentless, mechanical persistence. It is a visceral study of "composed bio-music": a living organism of sound that begins in chaotic freedom and ends in the hypnotic trap of a senescent memory.

Tracks

Ok at ease; Weathered Vane; Odds Ends Waltz; Empty Box Around; Rapt By Fairy Tale; Even the dolls are older than me; Creepy China Owl Lamp; Rustling Sundays; Leave The Nightlight On, Please; Senescent Unterweissbach Shepherdess; Paper Angels

Personnel

Andy Nechaevsky

multi-instrumentalist

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