This track is a nice example of polymeter. Two elements in counterpoint, one in 4/4, and the other in 7/4, and come together every 29th beat (1 beat after 7 measures of 4, or 4 measures of 7) to move to a new chord, except for the last measure. This differs from polyrhythm in that the rhythms are not “stretched” to fit into a given measure length. They are allowed their natural course, everyone staying in the same tempo. Every last measure of a 4 bar phrase has an extra beat of 4/4 added which breaks things up a bit. The intro is also worth noting; it counts out 8 bars of 4/4 instead of 7, sneakily hiding the counter-element that gives this track its charm.
Music Morsels are musical fragments, collected and analyzed.