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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