Hey Pat awesome to see you here in the loop again! thank you for the kind review, yes that is country (well my take on it anyway) I like all those ballad type styles of music blue grass, r&b, pop and soul etc...I hope the day comes around that we can get down and do something together...music of course! ;) :)

Sorry for the late reply, thank you for taking the time to listen, your review is very much appreciated. cheers Dave :)

Hey Dan, sorry for the late reply, thanks for taking the time to listen mate! cheers Dave :)

Hey buddy thanks mate!..glad you liked the track Wayne, the more I play my acoustic/elec bass the more I like it, I've got a few more instrument builds on the drawing board at the moment and will be starting them towards the end of our winter (too cold for gluing at the moment) ..be over at your page shortly mate, all the best Dave :)

Hey TeeGee, thanks for stopping by mate! glad you found the track interesting, sometimes I think I should just stick to one genre per track but I love tangential thinking! lol...cheers mate all the best Dave :)

Hey man thanks for stopping by and the insightful appraisal...you wouldn't believe how much time I spent getting the action right on this fretless acoustic bass, (the whole build took quite awhile) I made the bridge blade out of billet aluminium, but long story short when finally it was setup just right, intonation neck relief blah blah blah I thought finally I can get down and play this sucker...the whole tonal range was dominated by this awful metallic twang in the background, damn damn damn! obviously transferred from the alloy bridge, I'd listened to an NS Convex (think that's the model name) fretless headless bass afterwards which had an alloy piezo bridge just like mine and it suffered from the same constant artefact as well! shit I thought maybe time to go back to the drawing board, after trying maple and ebony as bridge blades without any great success (not enough strength and sound conductivity in this configuration) I had a brain storm and place a thin piece of hard plastic between the bottom of the alloy bridge and the piezo element..success! I've expanded on this point to help explain the buzzing you mentioned, all fretless instruments have this inherent sound/problem to a certain degree, it's their bane but also their shining light and it's overcome mainly by glissando and downward pressure in unison with watching out for too severe hammer ons, in short (haha could have put this at the very start) it's my sloppy technique here at fault! lol..ok back on track the bowed instrument is a Dilruba violin vst played on my midi keyboard, the last ethnic sounding plucked instrument in the final stage is actually a Harp vst which I've given small room reverb and added some delay to give it that twangy double tap reverberation, glad you enjoyed the piece mate...cheers Dave :)

Hey Esti thanks buddy!..I haven't been producing as much music as I'd like, but things are definitely on the improve in that department, thanks again mate..cheers Dave :)

Hey Hustle, thanks mate! so glad you liked the track (and some of my loops, man I've got to make some more of those, been a bit slack in that department lately)...thanks again for your encouragement mate!....cheers Dave :)

Hey Traz..thanks man! so glad you enjoyed the track, sometimes I make music and think 'people will probably hate this stuff and call it junk' it gladdens my heart that some like yourself find it ok...cheers mate Dave :)

Hey Danke, thanks mate you are too kind!..I was wondering what genre to place this in and seeing I usually tag all my tracks as 'fusion 'I decided to go with acoustic this time as a lot of the sounds are headed in that direction...half the time I have no clue! lol thank you again for listening...cheers Dave :)

Hey there Sman, thank you for the kind review mate, I particularly like the fact that you got my eastern, western empathy drift, so often these days (myself included) it's easy to get swept away by media driven political agendas and overlook the normal everyday citizens of eastern countries who just want to live and love life like we all do.
cheers mate much appreciated....Dave :)

Hey Mike thanks so much man!...I think your review is pretty close if not spot on to the core of this track, while I wasn't intentionally trying to portray any specific scenario I was introducing elements exactly as you described, music really does communicate in a universal language and I really appreciate you taking the time to listen......cheers mate
Dave :)

Hey Ed thanks man. I'm really getting into the acoustic tone of my bass at the moment, it's got heaps of sustain and fills out the bottom register nicely, pretty sure I'm going to build another one, a four stringer this time with an additional magnetic pickup for those crossover tones (and a slimmer neck for speeder playing! lol)...thanks for your kind words mate very much appreciated!....cheers Dave :)

Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed the tune! Dave :)

Hey Pat, glad you enjoyed the tune mate....The vocals come from Native Instruments Ethno World Voices, Iranian Neda licks in this case (there's some seriously cool samples in it) I played the licks using my midi keyboard then built the track around it..yeah this is the acoustic/electric bass I made, strung with black nylon tape wound strings I'm getting about 75% of the upright tone I was looking for and will be adding a Myer mini microphone to the sound hole in an attempt to get more acoustic growl but nothing will sound as good as a real double bass, man I had a cool 3/4 upright in 1981 and swapped it for a bass rig, dumb! dumb! dumb is me!(I was mainly into rock at the time)...when you play this bass the tone makes it's easy to slip into hoedown mode, blue grass and jazz! lol, so that explains the little excursions to the groove, ah man dreaming of playing bass is way cool more people should do it!haha...thanks for the cool review mate!!!..cheers Dave :)

Hey Cru thanks for the cool review mate....I mostly always spend the majority of my music constructing time on the drum track and sometimes it can deflect the original inspiration into an endless search for a certain triangle ding! lol, it's sort of frustrating but gratifying in the end I suppose, but that's why they invented drummers (and percussionists) I guess!....I already have one turntable (no scratching) and a microphone can I please swap it for an electronic expert to fix my two Tandberg reel to reels which need some work and are gathering dust in a cupboard....then I can splice vocals and run them backwards and leave subliminal messages in my tracks!...cheers mate Dave :)