Feb 2022 electronic space female vocal dark minor-key
This song started as some playing around with big, fat, dark noises that delighted me. Space has been on my mind lately, and it's interesting to me that the first song of this year is a kind of darker take on the same theme as the first song that came to me last year, Spark.
I considered the experience of someone waking too early on an ark, of sorts, heading to a place that maybe is better...and maybe not.
(This demo is as finished as I can get it in a day because sometimes you just have to put a thing down.)
Everyone is breathless
As they’re circling the room
Deep in sleep and restless
The night falls all too soon
How do we expect to find our way
How do we expect to see the day
When we’re open at last
All our futures will be
someone’s past.
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
Where do we
Go from here, tell me.
When will growing begin?
When will birds sing again?
When will we find the garden
Of flames and snakes and sin?
Nothing is ever left behind
To let things go we’re disinclined.
Would we have been so brave
If we knew the darkness
Would see us and wave.
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
Where do we
Go from here, tell me.
Everyone is breathless
As they’re circling the moons
Deep in sleep and deathless
As the sun upon the dunes.
The Machines we made, and their formulae
Chose who would fly, who would stay
Forged the dice that we cast
On the ground
That we’d turned to glass.
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
Where do we
Go from here, tell me.
@heliosonorous Mar 2022
Cool variety of sounds in here, really like the percussion used and how it changes, makes me thing of venturing off at night, lyrically you show that sense of going into the unknown.
@aeye Feb 2022
The opening made me think of some microtonal music. And then it continues to evolve with the drums and swirly sound FX. Your vocals float over top of it all bringing it together.
@elesimo Feb 2022
Love the sparseness here, it does give a sense of space... the voice playing with the bass and the plucks. The vocal melody also has an exotic quality to it, which makes the song eerie. Really nice!
@miga Feb 2022
you've got singing skills. Definitely has a space vibe! I Like the "deep in sleep and deathless as the sun upon the dunes" line. You write interesting and intelligent lyrics.
@falconbridge Feb 2022
@jtsteam thank you! I feel like there are a few space stories that may come this month!
@jtsteam Feb 2022
Oh I like this. Pleasingly dark. It sounds like this could be the start of a much bigger story. Maybe we'll get to hear more of it or maybe we should just let our imaginations run wild!
@falconbridge Feb 2022
@Jaegerin - Thank you! I posted the demo just now.
@jaegerin Feb 2022
Ooh, that's quite zeitgeisty, I like it. Especially the line 'All our futures will be someone’s past.' I'll come back for the demo once it's posted.