life raft
by @burrMod
Liner Notes
#Psychedelic #ChamberPop #Orchestra #FolkRock #Fuzz #Flanger
some of my favorite records are weirdo folk/rock/pop albums with orchestras but also synths, like jeremy enigk's "frog queen," beck's "sea change" or "morning phase," and my brightest diamond's "this is my hand."
i've been collecting orchestral VSTs for a couple years with the goal of trying to do this, and i'm sick of using my 4-track by now this FAWM, so decided to go back "in the box." last week i wrote an EP where i asked an AI to give me a "roadmap" of BPM, meter, song structure, and instrument suggestions, and i wrote songs to those constraints. i did that again for a "chamber pop" EP and this is what i came up with based on its suggestions for track 1.
i used ezdrummer / ezbass / ezkeys for the core of it, and then took the keyboard part i landed on and painstakingly "divisi'ed" it across all the orchestra voices (ditching the original piano). i tried to make it sound realistic, but i'm sure real winds players would get pretty mad at not letting them breathe when they needed to! but hey, i'm pleased with this as my first attempt at the vibe...
i'm NOT pleased with the vocal take, but it's FAWM so... moving on...
i pretty much had all the instruments recorded before writing lyrics and melody, although i had been humming the "slowing me down" line very early in the process. i don't know if i'll get through the other 3 songs in this EP before FAWM is over... this one took me 2 days and was a LOT of work! but i'll try. going to post them as i finish them, though, and not all at once...
Lyrics
i remember feeling weightless here
as the vessel surged on and disappeared
diesel and seaweed
why are we are speeding
so fast
it's throwing me down
and the life raft
just spins me around
floating adrift on waves of uncertainty
losing a grip on what matters to me
white knuckles gripping
why are we are slipping
so fast
it's slowing me down
and the life raft
just spins me around
the azure expanse, brutal but beautiful in a way
we ride out the storm, or we drift away
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The keys give a sense of being on the water.
Has a feel of the Beach Boys, Good vibrations era.
Also - good memorable chorus- was singing along by the end!