Petrichor
By ViridianLoom on June 7, 2020 10:01 pm
I started this week off working on a doom metal song. It was coming along nicely, felt incredible personal and intimate while also being heavy and foreboding. I felt like there was a lot of room for vocals I set to work writing out some lyrics. But obviously, this is a different song, so what happened?
When I was writing the lyrics the only stuff coming to mind was what's been going on in my country. The police brutality, our partisan politics, our corrupt government, the lack of empathy, antagonism on social media etc. There's just a lot of shit I find incredibly upsetting and I was trying to articulate it all in a way that made coherent sense but when I read back my lyrics I felt like I was just reading bulletpoints. I realized this was the kind of project where I needed to write, reflect, internalize, then return and approach it again. And again. Until it felt right. I'd needed longer than a week, even a few weeks, to do that. The song was called "Anno", latin for "Year". Mostly because it's been a colossally shit year so far. So maybe that'll resurface eventually.
Anyways,THIS song was written this morning. Just some kind of psych-rock jam inspired by Kraan (I think Ibiza suggested them? The song Akua is killer). Petrichor is the smell outside when it rains after a long period of warm weather, which is appropriate since Monsoon Season is just beginning where I live.
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Can't wait to put this on loop when the rainy season comes back.
