One listen.

I wrote this yesterday and decided to sit on it until now. Other stuff to deal with and all that. Looking over it briefly, it feels a bit meandering in parts, and I’m not sure if that is beneficial, or detrimental. That said, I think some imagery comes through, and that helps to paint an idea of how the song feels… I think.

Willebrant’s “Sands V (By Night)” is from Desert Songs.

I hope you enjoy.

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Silence, or quiet. Perhaps just too small to be heard, but eventually danger spreads thin and thick, and runs smooth over the space. It seems to linger, fade and then give way to something else in a grand emptiness that presses down and presses in, but it’s not all danger.

There’s danger, but in these sounds drawing out and moving upon lines is also a sense of wonder. There’s a sense of quiet framed by sounds at a distance. The sky seems to become even more massive; overwhelmingly so, and the sense of danger is there, but it also seems safe.

The space is framed by the sky and stars, and around is the openness of the desert, and all its ridges and shape and form, and it spreads beyond visibility, and it’s dark and quiet, and filled with low, soft sounds, and it extends in the dark with waves held still, and it continues on as the sounds fade and the song ends.