Zmitrowicz

AsterAqua

The featured song of the EP. An old song, originally written just verse / chorus on acoustic arpeggios. Briefly performed live in a band, but in a very different arrangement. Like Night-Time Storm, another song thinking about the sea and rain at night. I have a memory of sitting in my room in our rental on a road running south of St James's
The featured song of the EP. An old song, originally written just verse / chorus on acoustic arpeggios. Briefly performed live in a band, but in a very different arrangement. Like Night-Time Storm, another song thinking about the sea and rain at night. I have a memory of sitting in my room in our rental on a road running south of St James's Street, at night, with the window open, where you could be hearing the noise of the wind or the traffic from Marine Parade, but you also hear it as the sea just a little further away. I'm really pleased with how this one turned out. I recorded me doing some bad beat-boxing for Olli to start working on the beat, and we decided to fold it in to the overall mix. The vocoder is all Olli's idea and I love it. Likewise the guitar in the second chorus. Of all the songs on the EP, this one makes me want to dance the most (at some kind of sad disco).

It's not very tight lyrically, more working with imagery and feels. Breakups, the sea, the city, climate breakdown — the usual.
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Turning Tide

AsterAqua

A newer song, that began like the floaty, incidental Gilmore Girls in-between music. Once the melody on the strings emerged it then lent in to a late 90s indie pop. Lyrically it's thinking about global heating, and what we owe to future generations, and how we tread a line between paralysing despair and the hope that a new generation can bring,
A newer song, that began like the floaty, incidental Gilmore Girls in-between music. Once the melody on the strings emerged it then lent in to a late 90s indie pop. Lyrically it's thinking about global heating, and what we owe to future generations, and how we tread a line between paralysing despair and the hope that a new generation can bring, and the way the connection that we-who-are-here-now have with future generations is also something we need to reflect on.
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