Written and Recorded in 1989
The main ideas for this piece of music spontaneously popped up while I was trying out the effect of a digital delay pedal plugged to my guitar in spring of 1989. When I decided to use the sampled echo sounds to fill the upbeats, I thought it would be more effective to separate the original guitar sound to one channel, and echo sound generated from the effect pedal to the other channel completely, to form a virtual symmetry consists of sounds mixed in stereo. Once this rule has been established, it didn’t take long before I completed writing the entire material including the guitar solo section, which was written on the sheet to carefully make sure each note including echoed ones are placed correctly harmonious to the flow of chord progression assigned to the bass and organ.
The title of this track was inspired by the album cover and title of AOXOMOXOA by The Grateful Dead. I wanted the tune’s title to represent its content – musical expression of symmetry – so I picked up five alphabetical letters that have symmetry forms and arranged them in this fashion, with slightly implying to a musical term; Mixolydian as well.
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