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MINA

by Geoff Smith

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    MINA by Geoff Smith also comes with thirteen bonus items: these include two high quality music notation pdfs (Ferocious Tenderness & Pale Powder Blue), three lyric pdfs (I Let You Pass Me By, Mina & The Mystery of Innocence) as well as eight high resolution photographs of the hammered dulcimers used for the composition and recording of the album.
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I Let You Pass Me By Sometimes I awake in the night and I feel that you’re near But you’re not a ghost, you’re just deep down inside That I can’t deny, I could never say goodbye though I try I let time pass me by Now you’re with someone new, I was with someone new But you and I made a pact that if we’re alone That we’ll find a home, I believe in the resurrection But is it just a dream? I let time pass me by I let time pass me by I let you pass me by While I lay awake in the darkness And the sun was shining bright outside I’m never ever going to forget you I’m never ever going to forgive you I hope to God that I get over you No, I don’t hope that I get over you I hope my spirit will look over you And if I were to pray I’d make a statue and pray at your feet everyday I’m never ever going to forget you I’m never ever going to forsake you I hope to God that I get over you No, I don’t hope that I get over you I hope my spirit will look over you And if I were to pray, if I ever pray, if I pray one day I’d make a statue and pray at your feet everyday Letting time pass me by Letting time pass me by I let you pass me by I let you pass me by I let you pass me by I let you pass me by
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Rome 08:10
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Mina 04:10
Mina As I spied on her dancing the rumba All alone apart from me She moved barefoot on marble cooled by sea breeze She became my captor My revelation in blood red cerise As I hid there as she worked the rumba I felt naughty exquisite fear As she froze frame endangered within the wild She had heard my breathe I felt so tiny held by her stare Her beautiful stare takes me Hand in hand now we’re dancing the rumba All is silence free from words As I cut my forearm in a sweet ritual She knows what to do She licks the blood and heals the wound This is Mina, she is the rumba This is Mina, she is the rumba Hello Mina, Mina, Mina Hello Mina, we dance the rumba Mina, Mina Mina
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The Mystery of Innocence “This is where I used to pick blueberries amongst the pines Away from the track nothing’s changed it’s like we’ve gone back But the look the summer hut is bordered up” Just like a smile, not just any kind of smile It’s your smile of innocence, a face once alive Such animation long since died Those days have gone It’s getting dark we must go home “They don’t want kindergarten nurses anymore” you reminisce No what they want is for you to play the part time whore You’re so used and confused How many times were you betrayed? How many times was he forgiven? It’s your smile of innocence, a face once alive Such animation long since died Those days have gone It’s getting dark we must go home Home is where the heartlessness hides, so traumatised As I get close I see the distance in your eyes A face once alive Such animation long since died Those days have gone It’s getting dark we must go home What is innocence anyway? It’s just made to take away Cute gullibility Naive purity What is innocence anyway? It’s just made to take away A word in your dictionary Because when it’s gone it's become A mystery
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Persona 05:44
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about

MINA is a unique collection of immense instrumentals & sensual songs performed on hammered dulcimers & vocals. Featuring the world-leading innovator and pioneer in composition, song-writing & performance on the hammered dulcimer: the inventor of the Fluid Dulcimer & Fluid Piano.

Geoff Smith uses three different prototype hammered dulcimers on Mina:
(i) the microtonal ‘Fluid Dulcimer’.
(ii) a fully chromatic hammered dulcimer with a unique tuning layout.
(iii) a customised diatonic hammered dulcimer with an extended bass section.

The Fluid Dulcimer was invented by Smith. It is a hammered dulcimer that incorporates ‘Fluid Tuning’ mechanisms which facilitate adjustable microtonal tuning on each note individually and separately. This therefore enables the exploration of tuning and the creation of 'bespoke' tunings per composition. Smith's invention of the Fluid Piano subsequently evolved from the prototype Fluid Dulcimer.

Smith is the only musician in the world to have explored, in both composition and performance, a comprehensive spectrum of percussion and drum rudiments on the Hammered Dulcimer. This can be clearly heard on this album as well as seen, for example, in the two bonus items of music notation pdfs for the tracks Ferocious Tenderness and Pale Powder Blue. Intrinsic to facilitating this composition and performance technique has also been the use of a different design of hammers as well as method of gripping the hammers: i.e. the way in which the hammers are actually held in each hand and manoeuvred within each hand during performance.

This approach has given Smith the means by which to express, explore and enhance a vast dynamic and emotional range in his composition and song writing.

Album track list

(1) I Let You Pass Me By
(Geoff Smith: vocal & chromatic dulcimer. Lyrics by Geoff Smith)

(2) Rome
(Geoff Smith: vocal & chromatic dulcimer)

(3) Ferocious Tenderness
(Geoff Smith: Fluid Dulcimer)

(4) Mina
(Geoff Smith: vocal & chromatic dulcimer. Lyrics by Geoff Smith)

(5) Pale Powder Blue
(Geoff Smith: vocal & diatonic dulcimer)

(6) Aldobrandini 00184
(Geoff Smith: chromatic dulcimer)

(7) The Mystery of Innocence
(Geoff Smith: vocal & chromatic dulcimer. Lyrics by Geoff Smith)

(8) Persona
(Geoff Smith: Fluid Dulcimer)

(9) Stream of Consciousness
(Geoff Smith: Fluid Dulcimer)

(Album duration: 60 minutes & 7 seconds).


Media Reviews

“The musical equivalent of splitting the atom” The Guardian

“ The Hammered Dulcimer has been waiting for someone like Geoff Smith to come along” Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3

“Smith is a virtuoso percussionist who has revolutionised the Dulcimer” The Sunday Times

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released October 30, 2020

Composed & performed by Geoff Smith on multiple prototype hammered dulcimers & vocals. All lyrics written by Geoff Smith.

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Geoff Smith Brighton, UK

Composer, performer, songwriter, vocalist & inventor Geoff Smith is acknowledged as a world-leading virtuoso and a unique innovator & pioneer in composition, technique and performance on the Hammered Dulcimer. His albums comprise songs, instrumentals & film soundtracks. He is the inventor of both the Fluid Piano & Fluid Dulcimer.

“The musical equivalent of splitting the atom” The Guardian
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