Slow Burn (ft. levelcapybara)
By ViridianLoom on October 30, 2022 5:33 pm
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Satellites, tracing
Earth’s halo to the sunrise
on the other side,
pass overhead - slow,
afterburners aglow, and
transmitters chirping.
To hear them discuss
sunlight, from that vantage point -
it’s just magical.
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I'm super excited this track can finally be released. This started way back in July when I sent some ideas over to Capy and he sent me back a wonderful arrangement, but then I got that job offer and became embroiled in the whole training my replacement and adjusting to the new job that I didn't have the energy/inspiration I wanted to have to put towards finishing this song. Well I finally got back to reopening the project, listened to it and was like "This needs to get done". It actually got finished really early this week so I thankfully had a majority of this week to just watch a series of videos on audio engineering and kept coming back to this song to make mixing tweaks. It could of course probably sound bigger and more dynamic and more detailed but I'm pretty proud of how far it came from where it was.
An element of the song itself that I'm really happy with, an idea that I wanted to preserve since it's conception, was that I wanted Capy to build something off an idea I sent him and then I wanted to build off what he sent back. The first half of the song before the ambient break was what I sent over and I got back some vibraphone, synthpads, piano, and horn arrangements that got layered in on that original idea. So then I took elements of those instruments and combined them into the vibraphone for the second half of the song where it would be the driving force of the song and then wrote some guitar, bass, and drum stuff over it. And then all of the parts come together for the climax. It just feels super nice to have that kind of balance, so I hope everyone can hear our distinctive musical personalities in this track ^_^
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