One listen here and I feel I did a better job of covering the song than I did with the previous writing. Still, there’s something that’s missing the mark, though I’m not sure what.

Antoine Dufour’s “Cold Day” is from Convergences.

I hope you enjoy.

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Delicately guitar seems to descend until it finds its steady rhythm. Soon more strings enter and underscore with a thin grove. It continues on until a sense of changing rhythm comes in then raises and seemingly shimmers. Through here notes are interwoven into the space and fragile calm seeps into the sounds.

A return to the opening movement and the quiet holds. Still and steady it comes through and the quiet is outside, but there is a warmth and perhaps a smallness within it all. Once more the rhythm changes and merges with the space. The silence becomes important to the sound and it’s all pretty and still. There’s an appreciation, perhaps.

The guitar grows lively and there’s peace here and there, but perhaps there’s a melancholy. Perhaps there isn’t and it’s all just snuggling further into warmth, or at least looking for it, and as it happens the guitar seems to grow even more so lively. Perhaps it gets  a little frantic, but before anything is revealed it pulls away and grows soft once more. It moves into the opening movement once more and it continues on, perhaps as a framing for the whole piece, and it continues on as such until the song ends.