One listen for this one.

What I wrote came easy and I like that. I like that I didn’t struggle. Somewhere toward the end, however, I realised that bass may have been in the song since the start so I made some slight adjustments to what I wrote after the song finished. Sometimes I’ll make an edit here or there to improve readability; in this particular instance I felt it wrong to not include some more words on the bass, even if it is a small amount of words.

Takuya Kuroda’s “Tell Me A Bedtime Story” is from Fly Moon Die Soon.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys soon allow in a moving at striking angles, darting here and there with synth and percussion. Bass underscores it all whilst brass draws quickly slow and smooth around, countering the sounds as they seem to clutter and and spread here and there.

A sudden switch to a slow groove and it’s a sharp change, but it feels right. The percussion keeps steady and spaced whilst the keys seem to punctuate softly. Bass continues to keep a firm base and brass calls a long and seemingly joyous fancy outward, and the sounds alternate a little in their speed before eventually reaching a slight pause.

Still slow and spreading out gently, softly, into a quiet. It is an expansive moment before returning to the slow groove and the instruments keep all the cool and seeming calm going along for the ride.

Another shift but remaining slow and brass moves more to the forefront. It expands and compresses, and it plays slow and fast. It is seemingly jaunty and it floats there and gets among it all, and the instrumentation underneath keeps its pace deliberate before it starts to pick up a little. As it does the brass keeps going, picking up, picking up before it suddenly dissipates.

The keys and percussion take a little more lead whilst the bass plays slow. The percussion flickers whilst the keys dance and they move together, finding themselves right where they need to be. They keep it all soft and gentle, and they reach another brief pause.

Brass returns and it seems there is a reach for something grand, but instead of going for the build everything keeps it all gentle. It’s soft and small, and it doesn’t seem to want to strike out for something big, and all play slow until the final moment where the instrumentation echos a little and fades away as the song ends.