Here is a new song I have written.
Lyrics:
Brightness on the dews lips
Time to meet the dawn
Shadows pass behind me
Beauty of the fawn
Love
Faith
Hope
Joy
Your eyes, no lies
I rise, soft cries
The darkness won’t fill
I dream now, until, you
A breath of cold air
A soft spoken prayer
Essence glows darkly
See you through the morning dew
The darkness won’t fill
I dream now, until, you
A breath of cold air
A soft spoken prayer
Essence glows darkly
See you through the morning dew
A simple worship song. This one has been a while in the making. I experimented with chords, before reverting back to a simple harp progression, which I think sounds better.
I’ve put down “chamber pop”, as I think it’s the closest genre to this particular song. But if you know otherwise, then let me know in the comments.
“Unseen Base” is a journey through the sea, and also life. Not every journey ends well.
I don’t now much about geo-politics or war, but I do know that it always ends up with the death of the innocent, especially children.
This is a song about, and for, my daughter, who I am separated from. I’ve take some of my original songs, and remastered them a little, as I attempt to make them a little more complex and inviting to the ear.
I think I have been making a bit of music that might fall under slowcore, but this song I feel is a little bit too soaring for that category. So, I have just called it a slow building ballad.
I went through some old tracks to add percussion.
Here you can listen to the song, “Now You Fall In The Shade”.
This is a song about loss and darkness.
Lyrics:
Waves fall
Recall
Times I’ve spent with you
Sand grains
Small pains
‘Tween my hands slip through
Now you fall in the shade
Smile you had starts to fade
Darkness lies up ahead
Light you can’t see, you are led
Waves fall
Recall
Times I’ve spent with you
Sand grains
Small pains
‘Tween my hands slip through
Your eyes are distant now
Trapped by the waves at bow
If you could see the light
Shade would lift and become bright
Waves fall
Recall
Times I’ve spent with you
Sand grains
Small pains
‘Tween my hands slip through
If you like the song, please consider purchasing a download.
Here is the song, “Now You Fall In The Shade” By Almos Lataan.
In addition to having my songs up on the website, I have also put my songs up on bandcamp at:
https://almoslataan.bandcamp.com/
You get three listens there until purchase, so get your ears ready.
My latest song is, “Reflection of Distant Eyes”.
Lyrics:
Waned Sun has set now
Moon has failed to rise
Light passed to shadow
Reflection of distant eyes
Trapped in the cold place
Bleak, sodden earth round
Mists start to gather
Weak voice will not sound
Waned Sun has set now
Moon has failed to rise
Light passed to shadow
Reflection of distant eyes
Love need to gather
Prayer life needs to sound
God please be with you
Let yourself be found
Sun starts to rise now
Dark is all behind
Left your deep shadow
With God all is peace inside
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If you enjoy the track, please consider downloading to offer some support.
I have released “Waves” for download, my latest music album.
Currently it consists of three tracks:
01. Sun Becomes My Leaven
02. You Opened One Eye – Classical Version
03: Now You Fall In The Shade – Classical Version
04: Reflection of Distant Eyes
Each song comes in both MP3 and WAV formats.
The idea for the album came after editing “When I See Your Child’s Face”. After creating this track and uploading, I felt a little unhappy. The song was perhaps too sweet, in that the melody lacked depth and complexity. It was like the “intent memory generators” (baby goggles) scene in Donny Darko. There was no darkness. I think it was more of a child’s song. I had been using only white keys on the keyboard up until that point, and I was noticing, firstly, that the songs were always on the uplifting side of the spectrum, soncially at least, and also, that the songs were using leading melody notes instead of using chords. I should have been letting the voice deal solely with the melody.
So, I adapted the song. I decided to learn how to use chords. This was a lot harder for me than writing melodies, and I have so little idea of what I am doing, that I don’t know if I’m breaking rules or what not. Everything I do and make is by ear. I don’t follow any music theory.
Once the new song began to materialize, I realised how poweful black keys and minor chords could be. They provided tension and contradiction; an ambiguity to proceedings. Eventually, I felt that I had a song with not only more sonic depth, but it also reflected my bittersweet perspectives about my positive, but long distance, relationship with my daughter, and also, lyrically, in the contrasting perspectives on life of an adult and child. I called this song, “Sun Becomes My Leaven” . I had to change some lyrics from the first song to work with the new added darkness.
Once I had this initial song, I was eager to transfer my melody reverse techniques to both, “Now You Fall In The Shade”, and, “You Opened One Eye”. Both songs are lyrically quite sad or melancholic in nature, and so the introduction of minor chords worked well. In fact, I am happy with all three songs, as they only sound similar in lyrics to the originals. Combining both major and minor chords provides a totally different sound and complexity.
The third step I took with all three songs was to minimise the more electronic synthesizer sounds, and introduce classical instruments. I felt that this added further depth and emotion. There is something about classical strings which connects with the soul. I still left some electronic sounds in there, but they are subtle, there to pad, or add a little dissonance.
Lyrically, the songs remained much the same, which is to say that the songs remain quite raw. The songs were all originally written in states of high emotion. I find it easier to write in these periods. The lyrics are highly personal. Although I felt in some way that perhaps I shouldn’t share my feelings, especially where others were lyrically involved, I wanted a record of this period, particularly for my daughter, and also for others.
I called the album, “Waves”, without giving much thought. But if I were to analyse, I would say that we are all on a sea, sometimes calm, and sometimes turbulent. This album represents a more turbulent time of my life.
*UPDATE” I have also added “Reflection of Distant Eyes” to the album. Being string based, and still largely dealing with personal problems, it fell right to add it here.
Please consider a purchase if you like the music. This supports me.
