https://youtu.be/qJ_B2XbNKa8
This is my song for all Scorpio fellas (like me) many friends and relatives but all any Scorpio reading this really. Composed and recorded under Scorpio skies (early November 2020) by DD in Paris, France.
Piano
Electric bass
Organ
Drum kit
Celeste
Electric guitars
Moog synth
Voices
Photo by DD, a Paris Sky.
For Junto Project 0464: Blanket Song
Ok, this is not a usual junto submission for me as this is a personal track I’ve been working on for the past two weeks, and I was planning to properly release/distribute this one as soon as I finish it. But it suits the challenge so much that I’ll share it here first even if I tweak it a little bit next week for release.
Sometimes, when I hear music that inspires me to do something remotely similar, I start by learning (sometimes even recording) the part that produced a spark on me (a chord progression, a groove etc) and I work my song on top of that.
These past weeks I watched a show, *The Leftovers* season 1, and the music (by Max Richter) got on my head. So, I started recording it to try to analyse what’s so powerful on its simplicity, then try to do something similar. I did some changes, a different little melody, some notes on the arpeggio, and left it there.
Then a friend gave me an old Grestch snare drum, I did some recording at the end of the session I was working at that moment (my Leftover-nick track) to check the snare’s sound, and loved it, reminded me of Gaisbourg’s “Melody Nelson” album so I added a picked jazz bass, and organ and then (why?) I decided to combine both things: **Max Richter meet Serge Gainsbourg**.
For a whole week I did some “serious” composition after that, the results are quite original and personal I think.
So I decided to dedicate the song to all Scorpios around (like me, and a dozen friends and relatives that celebrate their birthdays these fist 22 days of November and late October)
To stay on the stealing/inspiring mood, I nicked the title from some lyrics by Phoebe Bridgers (with whose music I’ve been seriously infatuated BTW)
So, this one’s for Max Richter, Serge Gainsbourg, Phoebe Bridgers and all Scorpios around.
Officially released Dec 30th 2020
https://ffm.to/scorpioskies
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0464-blanket-song/
