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--from the Walter Ehresman album "Monkey Paw Situation" (2009).

Purchase download of whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/monkey-paw-situation

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This track is a strange bird. Part Central Asian ritual music and part techno dance track. Ehresman explains: “I had read this novel ("The Skull Mantra," Eliot Pattison) some time back about monks in a Chinese prison camp in Tibet who conjure up Tamdin, an ancient pre-Tibetan revenge demon, to unleash a little justice……This was a very satisfying idea to me, and I made a note on a little scrap of paper at the time that I should do some kind of instrumental piece based around it.” Ehresman later confessed that he, perhaps not surprisingly, has such “little scraps of paper” all over the place. “One night, I was feeling like recording something but didn’t have anything written in advance, so I found this particular little scrap of paper, sat down at the keyboard, and constructed this piece……trying to musically convey this unleashing of a great and terrible karmic force of accountability…...a reckoning, if you will.” The song intro/outro again features the Uzbeki rawap, joined by all measure of gongs and other percussion, morphing into a full-on electronica full-speed dance number (albeit with the ominous growlings of Tamdin surfacing throughout the track). “Doing the demon vocals was great fun,” Ehresman says with a glint in his eye. "Of course, the neighbors won't make eye contact with me after the late night I tracked the vocals, but it's a small price to pay."

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Tamdin Goes to Washington
(© 2007 Walter Ehresman)

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Electronic Rockers, track released May 1, 2009
--Walter Ehresman: keyboards, rawap, keyboard percussion, demon vocals, sequencing, groove box programming and manipulation.

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Walter Ehresman San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more

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