Jamuary Day 1

This is a surf-rock instrumental. The title is a reference to one of the streets in downtown Seattle that you could conceivably skate or surf down on the way to the Elliot Bay. There’s nothing distinctive about Seneca Street itself (aside from it being the “downhill” street in the Spring/Seneca pair), and the fact that it’s one of the “Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest” pairs of streets that make up the core of downtown, and it starts with an “S” for that sweeeeet alliteration.

Musically, the song is almost purely diatonic, being in A minor (I think there’s one moment that’s a G# passing chord).

The guitars and basses are DIed with Amplitube. The drums are the Kontakt ’50s Drum sample library. There is an absolute smearing of reverb on the tracks because this is surf rock, after all. The song is made better if you find some contemporaneous footage of surfing to watch while listening to the song.