Saluki Regicide

It has been clear for quite a while that Saluki Regicide has deserved its own homepage. With its expanding discography, and evidently a growing number of fans, this project truly wants and needs a place to call home. So here it is. Watch for the discography to be posted, as well as blog posts about Saluki Regicide related goings-on and maybe even some ruminations about the making of this stuff. For starters though, here is something I wrote elsewhere about the history of SR:

The Chronicles of Saluki Regicide

Saluki Regicide was spawned from some side experiments I did back when Rolling Calf Sinfonette was most active. If I recall the first distinctly Saluki Regicide tracks came into being in January of 2003.

My first conception of the project was to do deconstructions/mutations of various popular recordings. Not like remixes so much as chopping a song up a little and warping it beyond recognition with effects and added samples.

The first such track was called “Powerhouse” (unreleased) after the Raymond Scott composition that it was a mutilation of. A droning, throbbing distorted piece 07:24 minutes in length. In some ways the style of it re-emerges in the Djinnestan project.

The second track was “Jockey Full of Bourbon” (unreleased) from the Tom Waits song. Warped and blooped out, with samples of water and birds added, it comes across a bit like a Martin Denny style exotica tune.

The third track was “Ici Les Enfants” (unreleased) from a song by The Monochrome Set. The way I transformed that song is pretty much the same way I later created the track Shore.

Fourth came “La Conga Se Va” which was not released until Actress. This was a deconstruction of a song of that name by Lecuona Cuban Boys.

By this time I was starting to get a feel for where I wanted to go with Saluki Regicide, and it started to become my favorite project. The next track after this was Spread A Little Happiness, which I feel was the proper beginning of the Saluki Regicide flavor.

After that it is a blur, because I was working on a lot of tracks simultaneously. Before long I has enough tracks to fill up Dematerialized and half of Actress.

From then I took it slower, because other projects started popping up. Tree Helicopter, Rowboat Magicians, and the whole “Rain” project picked up momentum, plus by some time in late 2003 I was starting to get Webbed Hand Records going. Then Djinnestan and Akashic Crow’s Nest came along in 2004 as I was working on Mirage Emigrants.

Saluki Regicide tends to come into being alongside Djinnestan, and as I’m working on one of the two, I’ll be looking for samples and ideas for the other. For example, now that a Djinnestan album is in the works, a new Saluki Regicide release is inevitable.