4AetherAfter
By RajaTheResidentAlien on January 14, 2024 7:31 pm
(my voice is too small for the huge feeling of this track so i left vocals sparse... but i still had an idea i had to get out... i don't understand where the lyrics came from, but after i sang them out, i imagined the following story...)
there once existed...
a planet 'being', surrounded by an atmosphere 'being'...
the two existed in harmony, enveloped by the rapture of their love...
until one day a race of humanoidz came to plunder their material resources...
the two beings surged with such anger, as if crying out, "we do not exist just to serve your needs!"
the heat that pervaded such an environment, where two celestial bodies kept resonating their love for each other in a focused explosion that obliterated their attackers and ripped apart the bonds of the surrounding solar system as a way of protecting all of it from further invasion, then transformed these two into a vast nebula of dust and gas that now stretches the entire width of a galaxy...
there in that galaxy too, a strange unified form of energy bonds all lifeforms into a harmonious relationship with each other now, and a beautiful balance remains upheld...
it is said that this energy is a consciousness, a 'being' in and of itself, the unity of the older planet-being with its lover, the atmosphere-being that surrounded it, before they both destroyed their physical form in order to protect the substance that was most precious to them: the L 
V E they held for each other which honored and respected a universal balance by its own definition.
lyrics:
felt the energy light up
as it came into flow
you could surf the contrast
colliding in a violent glow
we felt the tremors of ghosts
scarring the atmosphere
ripped by embrace of fire
and warmed by the touch of tears
through which i manifest
and have become manifested
through which i manifest
and have become manifested
to that we attest
and by that which we are tested
through which i manifest
and have become manifested
i enjoyed using the polyend tracker for most of the music(also recorded my new 'Peterlin' synth through its input to tweak in full lofi glory - the Peterlin (chaotic) synth is the one that opens the track wailing party-favor/whiny-balloon-like noises which i then tried to 'counterpoint'(haha 
) with distorted guitar)... had to motivate night before deadline to get banjo and vocals done(no good recording in apartment with neighbors around), so i got my ZoomH4n hooked up with AKG mic in the car(mic was 'mounted' by way of its cable strung around the sun-visor so it hung in front of my face 
) and tracked things there(finished everything up in Logic)...
so now i'm introduced to a new, liberated way of working: no need for a studio or scheduling myself around when neighbors aren't home, i can just do all the mic-stuff in the car... at night, everything must be done by headphones... this will help me out so much, not sure why i didn't think of it before... the car has usb jacks too... might be able to power polyend tracker + norns in there 
...WHILE DRIVING EVEN! 
(just kidding... friends don't let friends drive high-off-of-weeklybeats 
...then again, now that i have the idea in my head, just try and stop me! )
thank you for opening your heart to give it a listen
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