One listen.

This one was tough for me as, early on, I hit a wall. What I should’ve done is let myself be really free with my writing, but I was set on describing what was happening, even though I lost steam early. The song does progress, but it’s also quite static for a good chunk of it, and I wasn’t locking into it enough.

Andriesh Gandrabur’s “Warehouse Notkin” is from Pathologic OST, the soundtrack for Pathologic.

I hope you enjoy.

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Strings come in, pull away. Come in with a bit more harshness, pull away. Come in with tension, sudden, pull away. Lower, slower, pull away. And so on it goes, until something more metallic comes forward a lot and leaves a trail as it fades. The strings draw long until percussion comes in, almost clapping.

Another metallic sound comes forward and leaves a trail, and a pause before something else seems to look for a moment before disappearing. The strings stand and seem to tremble, and a heavy dread rises whilst keys play menace. The strings shake violently before disappearing again.

Percussion returns with those keys and the keys still play menace, but they feel off, too. They seem stressful and claustrophobic, almost. And it stops once more.

The strings continue their rising and falling and shaking and changing of length, and other sounds continue to come in and fall away. They seem to breathe, almost. Breathe and tremble and shake, and keys return, distorted, playing a higher series of notes, almost spindly, and definitely deft.

The keys disappear, and things seem to grow quiet. Eventually another violent shake and a busier beat with electronic pulses takes over, bringing energy and action with them. A moment that cuts into the tension of ti all as it seems the tension is unleashed, but it disappears for the growing of the quiet.

This does not last long and those electronic pulses and whips and curves come back, cutting through the quiet as though a disappearing moment, for they do not last. All that has lasted is the strings, and despite some brief wisps of sound, they are all that is consistent all the way to the song’s end.