Walt McClements - Billows, like a shore

I’ve been thinking a lot about the accordion in terms of musical technology, seeing it almost as a proto-synthesizer - push one button to get an oboe sound, another to get a flute sound, etc. This track started with me trying to emulate a common synth technique, an S&H filter modulation, on the accordion, by taping the keys down and switching the reed stops percussively. I used that as a base for a mellow krautrock inspired piece that feels to me like melting into the dawn. The title is taken from an Emily Dickinson poem, "Not knowing when the dawn will come".