David Mash - Woodmere (2026) [Hi-Res]

We moved into our home on Woodmere Road in 1996, and after 25 years we are starting to see the end of the road here. But this was the first place where I’ve had a purpose built home production space, with its own entrance separate from the house. My first composition in my new room was “Mashine Blues” and the second was the title track Woodmere, expressing the joy of having a really good sounding room in which to compose and produce my music. So this album is really a tribute to this home my wife Erica and I have built, as we begin to thin of leaving for our next phase, and a return to some of my earlier writing (as well as some brand new pieces too!).

This was the very first piece I produced in my new studio after we moved into the house. Our neighbor/contractor friend Billy Gorman built the studio space for me in what had been a utility space that supported the master bedroom, which had been added on, and which extended beyond the front of the original home. the space while small, is sonically isolated and well treated for making electronic music. I started the piece with the machine-like ostinato, and then began adding tracks and decided to make it a minor blues form with an interesting turn-around, using the bVI to bVII progression borrowed from natural minor. I play all the tracks except for Alto saxophone, which is Bruce Nifong.

or the longest time, this piece sat in my portfolio un-finished and un-released, and titled just “Reggae.” I had bought some drum samples and discovered that some were by my friend Kenwood Denard. So I used Kenwood’s tracks as a building block for the tune. Then I decided to rock out on the guitar solo. And for Bruce’s solos I used an envelope follower and wah-filter and lots of delay to add interesting color to his jazzy licks! So why is it called Slice? Don’t ask. I won’t tell…

David Mash, all instruments
Bruce Nifong, alto saxophone