Cue of the Week: “Welcome to Ozana”

En route to a fabled pastor, the protagonists from Emerald, Texas stumble upon a quasi-hippie enclave in a forest.

I wish the film scene had been longer, because I had so much fun writing this oddball cue. The central rhythmic element is my plucking on an electric guitar run through (warning: audio tech babble follows) a convolution reverb based on a drum ostinato.

Add hand percussion, recorder, and low-end piano to the mix and you have your instant magic realism/quasi-rural/vaguely-spiritual traveling underscore!