Molasses run
(Hakim)
The only Omar Hakim composition recorded by
Weather Report. Hakim explained the making of this
track to Brian Glasser: "I brought in the melody and the
charts, and what I noticed was that Joe and Wayne
played it at first with my original ideas for the harmony.
Then, after a while, I watched them rip the harmony
apart and I watched them rebuild it, doing these
interesting things, but they left the melody intact. What
I learned was how to stretch the harmonic idea and
leave the melody intact, and Joe and Wayne--
particularly Joe--were masters of that sort of thing,
finding texture and the subtle drama in melody. He
totally made my song better. He took what I had and
made it a Weather Report tune. What I had had the
potential for a Weather Report tune, but his synthesizer
arrangements, his texture with soundscape and little
subtle harmonic things he did--that turned it into a
Weather Report track. It was a fantastic lesson for me."
Zawinul explained to John Diliberto how he altered the
intervals in his keyboards to produce his solo on
"Molasses Run." "I do some detuning and make a
scale that has an octave with maybe six notes or one
with 15 notes. On my Oberheim I have eight modules,
and each module I can tune to another note. When I go
through the scale on one note, I can make it so each
time I hit C on the keyboard, the next note, will be
another one, the third one, the fourth, et cetera--each
one a different note. Then I can add with the other
notes. This is quick thinking. I have different set-ups
with different intervals. The solo I play on 'Molasses
Run' I do with that."
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