One listen.

At some point early on I realised I was writing in a particular way that I’d done before and I’m not happy with it as, whilst I’ve gotten across an idea of the song quite well, what I wrote feels more rote than organic.

King Crimson’s “Requiem” is from Beat.

I hope you enjoy.

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Slow hum drifts, and soon guitar rises from it. The guitar is busier, but it also drifts. Tension arises, as does weight. Perhaps a solemness. The guitar continues to move and be here and there, stretching and contorting whilst remaining as it is. Maybe it is a lament for something that was; for a place that changed.

The hum changes and seems to split; the guitar becomes busier and bass plays a doleful series of notes whilst percussion starts forming its way into the space. The guitar howls, and eventually disappears as the other sounds work on different lanes yet in a unison.

The guitar returns from a single point and howls and creaks, and the percussion grows in a controlled scattering and spread. The bass remains steady, as does the hum, and the rest seemingly becomes cacophony. An outpouring, perhaps, of grief.

And yet there remains a drifting. It is an intense moment, but there remains something calm in it, and that becomes clearer when the percussion and guitar suddenly stop, and it’s just the hum and bass, both familiar, but both changed and fading away as the song ends.