I wrote this pretty quickly after the last Mr. Soon track I wrote about, and I think a bit of that writing carries forward here. Or feel. The songs are pretty similar (similar, but different) so it sort of feels like a through thread, and I think that’s okay here.

Mr. Soon’s “Arcosanti” is from Places in Arizona.

I hope you enjoy.

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Brief breaks in silence distort as harsh sounds. Develop a tension and a low urging beat underneath comes in. That beat soon builds into something more rapid. Gentle still, but louder, more pronounced, sort of emphasising parts here and there.

The harsh sound disappears, the beat drops away and something new and perhaps jazzier comes in. It’s gentle sounds looking to a tomorrow, or looking into a alley. Looking into something and the beat changes tones with it, too… when it returns. And then the sounds sort of descend and gently drift, and the beat changes to something with a little more space. Still rapid, but there’s a little more space. And it’s nice and gentle and easy, and everything is relaxed. Everything is relaxing, and eventually that beat stops, as do the sounds.

A new beat comes in. Steady, simple, minimal, though there are other sounds in there. Those sounds are muffled and could also be percussive, but this is all gentle still. Could be bass. Anyway, there’s a suddenly calm burst of sound, and it’s responded to by other light and easy sounds. All sounds that are smooth and slick, and without a concern for style. Without a concern for how they sound other than within the context of their use among what else there is.

And that beat drops away, and these sounds continue on drifting, floating away, going somewhere that’s not here and fading out as the song ends.