Fire Dance from Lindberg Slayter Reconstructions
Tie your heart at night to mine, love,
and both will defeat the darkness
like twin drums beating in the forest
against the heavy wall of wet leaves.
Night crossing: black coal of dream
that cuts the thread of earthly orbs
with the punctuality of a headlong train
that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly
Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,
to the grip on life that beats in your breast,
with the wings of a submerged swan,
So that our dream might reply
to the sky's questioning stars
with one key, one door closed to shadow.
-
Pablo Neruda
This month I decided to respin Zephyr and strip her down to the most basic elements of the song. I did
the original version back in '06 when I first started using Reason. The melody and sound effects were recorded directly from my synths, while the drum track was recorded in Reason. But I never felt like the song was complete. There wasn't a solid base line, not much texture, and it felt very linear. On way home from the Burn, I listened to Zephyr again for the first time in about in a year and a half. Then I started thinking of possibilities that I could do with both the melody as well as the original drums - realizing that I could remix the original waves recorded and import them into a new Song Project.
So I spent about a week sorting through the original layers and picked a signature track recorded from my old
Yamaha CS2X Synthesizer. The sound was called, 'Awaken' which was the haunted voice played at the beginning of the song. I also kept the nanoloop drums and then added several additional layers to give the rhythm more complexity. The same was done with the melodic tracks. I added some organic sounds like a bass willow flute, piano, violin and some additional electronic layers. I'm hoping that I stayed to the core principles of the song.
Download Zephyr Redux
Also, starting this month - I've began bumping up the sound quality on my MP3s and started assembling a collection of songs for a Demo CD. It's odd though, because I'm not sure what category my music falls into.
Elim calls it cinematic and very Globe Trekker-like.
On the note of cinematic - the original theme behind this song was centered around a character that I made a couple of years ago for a role-playing game. The setting took place on a desert planet and my character was an assassin bard named, Zephyr.
Elim's character was a fighter who did these stabby knife moves that he called his desert dervishes. He kept his name the same, although I think "Stabby McStabberson" would be a better name. Bwahahahaha! :)
Anyway - enjoy the song and as always, feedback is appreciated!
Monday, November 3, 2008 at 11:14PM 
