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Tragedy, Inc.

By Jai Cafarella on February 25, 2024 5:18 pm

Oh look, another super last minute thingy from Jai... hmm (no point saying I'll try do better, because I won't)

As I was rushing through my random phone recordings trying to find a starting idea, I came across a piano recording from 2017 that was not really catching me. Like, it was fine, I just wasn't feeling the potential. The recording seemed noticeably longer than usual for my other basic ideas, I was about to skip it but thought I'd give it a little longer. Half way through, for whatever reason, I stopped the initial idea and went into a completely unrelated idea that happened on the spot. Now when I heard that second idea, that was something I felt I could use.

So here we are, once again, leaving it til Sunday evening, starting with a simple piano idea and building from there. I tried a couple new ideas while stick with a couple of fav tricks, I'm not sure how the volume build will work for listening out in the wild though, so it could probably use some work.


We are scarred as children
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger
We just hurt longer

Aggressors make excuses
The world is hard so they go harder
And play the martyr

The world's a dumpster fire
I feel the flames as they surround me
They're all around me

They stigmatise solutions
To keep us tethered to their construct
I guess we're all fucked

Welcome to tragedy incorporated
We're all broken in our own way
A world of slaves to power evil corporations
When we are done we'll all be disposed of

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Oof, I feel it. Great vocals and piano especially. Love the sparse feeling and how even the "loud" part doesn't actually change too much instrumentation-wise, but the added beat and intensity of vocals come through well.

Such a good build of the elements, then the groove hits, love how even a last minute tune still has layered vocal harmonies

This is excellent stuff as is. Granted, I'm listening to this in an isolated environment on headphones, so I'm getting all the good good bits uploaded straight to my brain, but these are some great bits.
- Spider

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