One listen.

I’m waiting for my breakfast to finish boiling and so I decided to see if I could get this done quickly, and I did. I went in and everything flowed on out, and it was pretty easy to write this time.

I don’t think this represents the song too well. It gets something across and it feels concise, but I don’t know if it is.

Grace Jones’ “Don’t Cry – It’s Only the Rhythm” is from Slave to the Rhythm.

I hope you enjoy.

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Percussion strikes on upward and then settles into something more gentle, though still steady. The sounds are mostly relaxed, though there are the occasional hard strikes, and there seems to be the sort of “plucking” of a string here and there. There’s a sense of action here, but also a sense of relaxation, of calm, of focus. Perhaps of melancholy as sound seems reflective and hesitant, yet still looking forward into an uncertainty.

Vocals come in, strictly as a sound and disappear as quickly as they show. Everything else keeps going with its gentle confidence and its gentle acceptance, and it could be night as much as it could be day, and all eases and massages, perhaps, and it’s steady. It’s easy, and it cycles, and it keeps things calm and exciting, and everything fades out at the song’s end.