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The Flight of the Anti​-​Ming Rebels

from Diamond Wing EP by Stairs to Nowhere

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The Flight of the Anti-Ming Rebels. The title comes from one of Bram's books about Chinese history. It's loosely based on this man: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zicheng and his Anti-Ming rebel army, but it's also about Karate and aluminum.

This was one of the last tracks of the album to be completed; the delay bassline was a bit tricky to pull off, but Daniel nailed it perfectly in the end. This was also the first opportunity for us to go berserk on the piano that we bought and that stood faithfully rotting and de-tuning in the garden.

If you listen closely to the percussion section at the end of the song, you can hear the sound of Benjamin and Tim (who else?) beating all hell out of it with two crowbars. I think we have that on video somewhere as wel...

visit stairstonowhere.tumblr.com/tagged/studio_diary for more info and images from the making of these tracks.

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from Diamond Wing EP, released February 17, 2011

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