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The River Of Eternity

Musically, this song got its inspiration from the music of The Blue Nile. I didn't pay much attention to them in the last century but found them again recently and this time with much more interest, especially in their High album, very fine pop perfection. My song is far from perfection, but I tried to reach similar mood.

Lyrically, I had first the title and when many good and talented people had died recently, I had an idea how deceased people return to the stream of life and life is letting go off them. I was long stuck trying to find something that rhymes with 'easy', I didn't want to give that word up and finally found Assisi. That was the final piece I needed to fill the story, "Take nothing for the journey".

Naturally, BIAB gave me almost everything I needed to build the backing band. Especially I love the tin whistle which I'm using the first time. I used multiriff feature to generate the best possible version for the ending. I had to use BIAB main application to create the drum tracks because of drum generation bugs in BIAB VST, otherwise I worked with the VST version. Only RT missing which I would have used if there were one, is Uilleann Pipes...my wish for the next version. There is a small glitch with the VST Orchestra strings at the start of the first verse, that is due to the rendering process, it works when playing real-time.

Rob (RnAM) asked a ballad with Solaria singing the lead vocals, so here it is I worked more with Synthesizer V settings than earlier to get her singing sound better, although I had to make some compromises, to shorten the length of some notes to get the final 's' to be heard correctly. I know I could add more dynamics and variation in the style to the singing, but those are things to learn for another project

Based on style: _ABIDE.STY (Abide Folky Synth Pop)
RealDrums: Tabla16ths, PopRock16ths, CajonFolkSlow8ths, DjembeKeita16

RealTracks:
1536 Electric Bass PopBelieve Ev16
1410 Piano SynthLayer Rhythm Soul70sA-B Ev16
2335 String Quartet Rhythm PopHall
3771 Tin Whistle Low Background Folky16thsGeoff Ev 085
3544 Guitar Acoustic Rhythm SlowReelPicking Ev16 080
3278:Vocal Mmms, Rhythm RockNRollGospel12-8 4-part Sw 065
4044:Sitar, Background SlowSwing16thsAnwar Sw16 075
2773 Harp Celtic16ths Ev16 075

MIDI: The Orchestra, Kontakt/Uilleann Pipes

Vocals: Synthesizer V Solaria (Lead), Synthesizer V Kevin (Backing) [Neutron 4 used to unmask the vocals]

Mixed in Cakewalk by BandlLab

Lyrics:

Water is cold
nobody told
the passage would be easy.
The river concealed
what do you need?
Ask Francis of Assisi.

From riches to rags
goodbye to your bags
belongings that drag you deeper.
A burden to toll
save only your soul
the raft of a river's keeper.

A whirl among the lilies
ripples on the water
born out of chaos
a momentary order.
Returning the borrowed form
from a taker to a giver
farewell to migrants
merging with the river.

From pools to the falls
mortality calls
the bearer of loss is singing.
The memories bind
burrs of your mind
their teeth are harshly clinging.

Let go of your pains
hand over the reins
escort your dear to the shallows.
The evergreen shades
the providence wades
where solitude swamps the sallows.

A whirl among the lilies...

Beyond time and matter
the mirror of a mind
curves back on itself
back to the undefined
by the river of eternity
the river of eternity
the river of eternity
the river of eternity
the river of eternity
the river of eternity.
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Janne