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Raffy’s new song ‘Dance for the People’ has a reference to a snake charmer, so I wanted to get some of that ‘vibe’ in this song. The song itself has fairly traditional singer songwriter type chord changes, and the music played by snake charmers is played on an instrument called the Pungi,, which is a reed instrument that only has 7 holes usually, and then a drone note… so it’s in a single key… not a chromatic instrument. The scale is called a Punnagavarali raga, and it has I guess what we would call a sort of minor sound to it. I tried using some virtual instruments similar to it which would allow me to use notes not on the original instrument to fit the song, but I wasn’t loving it. I thought I’d try a clarinet, and that wasn’t quite it, but it did feel more human and organic, played with some inflections that one might hear in that music. I ended up getting it more ‘grating’ by putting it through a distortion pedal and echo. So that was a fun adventure! I read that public snake charming was made illegal in 1991. Anyway… enjoy the song, which to me is about recognizing and sharing your own unique talents.
