Feb 2022 skirmish instrumental gb-iphone
Prompt: the release of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Let this darkness be a bell tower”
After skirmishing all day, I was at a bit of a loss for words so used the words for the title and wrote an dark rock instrumental in the key of Dm with some bell tone melody and counter melody lines. Pardon my iPhone GB thumb performance!
@sheslin Mar 2022
I love the light ringing bell tones over the driving crunchy guitars - wonderful contrast. Oh the sitar(I think) is a great synth add! Great driving beat and a lot of cool things going on.
@the3queens Feb 2022
Very nice! I was expecting lyrics. I don't have an iPhone so don't get the GB thumb. LOL.
@nancycunning Feb 2022
It would be fun to read a set of Rilke poems over this loop. I feel like it does capture something of the way light and darkness spool through his poems, like dance partners.
@timfatchen Feb 2022
The bells! The bells!...no, wait...wrong movie. Would that I were rock, like thee? No stop, i have to get out of this CharlesLaughton suit...
Okay, quite effective Liz. Good skirmish!
@pipewrench67 Feb 2022
Comes in heavy, but the perc synths give it psychedelic furs, Echo and the Bunnymen vibe
@crutherford Feb 2022
there's lots of really cool things going on here.. this is definitely a headphones song. firstly, there is this dark driving beat... but it's the other stuff contradiciting it that i really love. the glock sounds - whirlies in the background... lots of hope in here. i dig it! great skirmish!
@unpronounceable Feb 2022
This is groovy and reminds me of kinda goth darkwave '80s. I'm certain I'm messing up the names of genres here. I love the sparkly tones here. I really like the mode you're playing in here too. Thanks for playing! :)