dacca

2020 feels like we need to wake up from a bad dream (pandemic+lockdown), one that the whole world is sharing.

"You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us." - Sappho

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Art from here:

https://pixabay.com/photos/weeping-grief-woman-face-sad-girl-3332113/

"Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness."

― Mary Shelley

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mostly Apple loops, plus some manually played Logic Pro X feedback guitar (via Alchemy)and a couple of synths

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art from here:

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/background-skull-head-scary-gothic-2032271/

"Australia faces the Milky Way and therefore star gazers can see 100 times more stars than they could in the Northern Hemisphere."

Government of South Australia, June 2019.

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Image: "The Milky Way rises over Island Point in the Peel-Harvey estuary, Western Australia":

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_over_Island_Point.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point

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Due for release as a single on all major digital channels on 23rd October 2020.

I was playing around with a 'clean electric guitar' in Logic Pro X soon had a dark tune going, to which I added two more clean electric guitar tracks but with dark Alchemy guitar effects.

The whole time I was thinking about the character Ellie from the Naughty Dog's "The Last Of Us", most recently having watched my daughter play "The Last Of Us II" on PS4. I thought about how dark it was, all the pain and suffering, and yet there is beauty in the game including the brilliant music from the likes of Gustavo Santaolalla.

This is my original score unofficial 'soundtrack' inspired by all their great work.

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Art taken from here:

https://pixabay.com/photos/fantasy-window-dark-weird-woman-4890374/

I finally - after 4 years - mixed a version of this track in Logic Pro X with my vocal added for the poem that I wrote about atomic weapons years ago, plus some Apple loop backing vocals and effects.

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THE GARDENER

In

The distance

His flower bloooooms.

But the gardener

Has not seen his garden.

His plants never need

The sun or rain.

He sows his seeds by

Remote

Control.

And when all his flowers

Are at their most radiant,

He proudly presents them

As our wreath.

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Here's the earlier instrumental version.

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/the-gardener

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The photograph is of the Trinity test for the first nuclear bomb. Regarding the poem, I'd seen the horrifying and stark British 1965 drama-documentary The War Game about a nuclear war. Scared the shit out of me all through high school in the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)#/media/File:Trinity_Test_Fireball_16ms.jpg

softer version than the guitar version I did originally

Here's the guitar version

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/you-again-with-clive-hawkins

One of my Logic Pro X Apple loop compositions.

Just the second track of mine created on my iPhone.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

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Image:

"The Pleiades, an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star#/media/File:Pleiades_large.jpg