Doug Davis - I Can Hear the Wind Blow

from Round 9, Week 10 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This is the last song of my 10-song, round-long, art-prog/Peter Gabriel/Elbow/Porcupine Tree/Sweet Billy Pilgrim experiment. I went in with a fairly well-defined aesthetic perimeter, and I'm fairly proud of the tracks I came up with. As an exercise in SONGWRITING, I'd have to say that this round has mostly been a failure, in the sense that very few of these songs have well-defined melodies and lyrics, but I am fairly satisfied with what I've been able to accomplish in terms of staking a claim into some new aesthetic territory for me. I'd like to develop another batch of these at some point, chose the best work, and develop it into some properly finished songs and recordings.

As for this one … there's something about snow and a certain kind of pastoral prog that I find really resonant. Maybe it was that copy of the Steve Howe Album I'd borrowed during my junior year in college and was listening to incessantly during a snow storm. Or the fact that I really dug into the first King Crimson album during a similarly wintry period, much later. Dunno. Anyway, I've been enjoying binging on the Gabriel-era Genesis over the last few days, and I thought that that was a fitting aural marinade in which to steep my last song for this round. I built it around an Anto Phillips-era backbone of 3 12-string acoustic guitar arpeggio tracks, but I let it wander a bit after that: a bit of solo Gabriel marimba sequencing, some David Gilmour delayed fretless bass, a bit of Sweet Billy Pilgrim-esque keening vocal pads, some shoegazer elements.

Lyrically, though, I was spent. Had nothing. What's on the track is utter shite. Sorry. If it makes the cut, melodically, I'll revisit it and write some proper lyrics. It was also a very busy track, and I've found myself without time for a proper mix, so it may sound like a bit of a mess in the morning light, but we'll see. Overall, though, I'm OK with this as a fitting way to end this round.

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from Round 9, Week 10, released January 25, 2016

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