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I had just arrived in Nepal. My guitar sustained the abuse of rocking around in a guitar case on an airplane for two days. When I opened the case, the guitar was quite out of tune. I often will challenge myself to write in any tuning presented. I played a harmonic minor passage, using the whammy bar, I bent through the notes to try to emulate quarter tones. I lived beside a recording studio called Studio 4 One. I took the track there and hired a tabla player to play on it. He said in 25 years of professional music, he had heard nothing like it before. He was at a loss of how to approach the song. I said, play from the heart...whatever happens, happens. This is the result. The song is named for the new elevation I was experiencing being in Kathmandu as suggested to me by Bill Tuford, my roommate at the guest house I was staying at.

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from The High Altitude LP, released December 11, 2012
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Nathan McKay Stratford, Ontario

Nathan McKay is from Stratford ON Canada. He is an eclectic artist musician that considers himself more of a Sound Painter and Improviser. He loves beauty in dissonance. He loves playing out of time signatures and keys as it can be limiting. He takes you on a journey around the world through various genres he fancies and loves to play. When he's not recording, he is usually promoting other artists ... more

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