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Iron and Coke

from Through Vapor by Apertome

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This is my 10th song for FAWM 2015, written on my birthday, 2/21. We were pretty much snowed in all day, so I wrote this. In 6/8, because it seemed most fitting for the lyrics (which I had written previously).

Main synth part: Pittsburgh Modular, sequenced with Doepfer Dark time, run through Ibanez Tube Screamer and Malekko E616 Dark analog delay.

Bass: microbrute

Higher arpeggiated part: minibrute through Small Stone phaser
Pad: SQ8L (plugin)
Reverb: ValhallaRoom
Software delay: ValhallaUberMod

lyrics

A surge in elevation
Rails of segmented steel
Blustering past an old coal mine
Rattling scraps of ore and tire

Blackened sky
Diffuse and shadowless
Indeterminate sun
Casting over

Blackened eye
A spiteful domain
Of smoky men of coke
And ore and creosote

Shapeless through vapor
Silent shifting over trestle
Carrying its nameless cargo
Long through the day and night

Blackened eye
A spiteful domain
Inhabited by smoky
Men of ore and coke

Miles and miles
Long runs of iron rail
Over impossible peaks
Through drilled earthen tunnels

Blackened sky
Diffuse and shadowless
Indeterminate sun
Casting over

Blackened eye
A spiteful domain
Of smoky men of coke
And ore and creosote

A way through the lime
And dusty grime
Forcing its sway
Long into the endless night

Blackened sky
Diffuse and shadowless
Indeterminate sun
Casting over

Blackened eye
A spiteful domain
Of smoky men of coke
And ore and creosote

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from Through Vapor, released March 1, 2015

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