Name: Hope Shimmers Through by Alterkix
Duration: 2 min 52 s
Description: Single

mysterious atmosphere, creative work with a spooky mood, like it!

Our 3rd track together, please enjoy, feedback always welcome. https://on.soundcloud.com/Uftge

All Rise- Taylor Friar & Adam West

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Jan aka Sönderrevet.
Vocal contributions from L.C. 

Lyrics 

You held your head up
Through thick and thin
Forming midnight visions
All towering within
The outside world was out of reach
and for such a long time
Hopes became a burden
It's been a long climb

And was it a fatal flaw
That you wouldn't step away?
It gets stripped of all your meaning,
and you're left carrying the weight

And this tired living
has been wearing you out
It gets your heart so broken
It is changing you now
For it won't be the same
as it once was
The more you were dreaming,
the more you seemed to be falling apart

You've been driving hard
for your higher needs
For all you envisioned
This life to be
And now as the light of youth
Begins to fade away
You know that the shifting sands
will take those dreams away

You said it was irredeemable 
to let that part of you go
You said, "what's in a new beginning,
When we must loose the things we love"

But this tired living
has been wearing you out
It gets your heart so broken
It is changing you now
For it won't be the same
As it once was
The more you were dreaming,
the more you seemed to be falling apart

Chapters Missing

Falls Apart

Hope Shimmers Through

LOUD
Music by Overdrive
Lyrics by Electra Volcana
Guitar solo by Chris Hardisty

Check out the IG promo videos for Loud:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1FlG4lrV1o/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ei_KwuNyR/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3g9tCUxnfC/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eiCJIM_xv/


This is a track produced by me in collab with singer Electra Volcana and guitarist Chris Hardisty. The song mixes punk and electronic music, serving as a sample of 90s underground in a more modern guise.

Jane aka Electra Volcana's unmistakable punk vocals are the highlight of the track, creating the perfect underground atmosphere with her raspy voice. Discover the incredible work of this French singer on her Soundcloud page:

@user-6008493

Guitarist Christopher Hardisty is a long-time partner in collabs, always delivering brilliant guitar solos. Chris is a member of StillVivid, along with Matt Reeves, and the duo's brilliant work can be heard on their Soundcloud page:

@stillvivid

Also check out StillVivid's new album Saga:

soundcloud.com/stillvivid/sets/saga

The strong influence of the English band The Prodigy is evident here, especially from their album The Fat of the Land. When The Prodigy released The Fat of the Land in 1997, it was a shock. Everyone was well adapted to the industrial genre by then -- NIN had released their debut album Pretty Hate Machine more than a decade earlier. However, TFOTL became a legendary electronic music album for its rawness and brutality. The single Smack My Bitch Up faced boycotts from record stores, the music video was censored on MTV, but the song reached the top of the charts in more than 20 countries, including the US and UK. In 2020, Metal Hammer magazine (a renowned heavy metal publication) included FOTL in its list of the 10 best albums of 1997. Not enough, Rolling Stone featured FOTL in its list of "Essential Recordings of the 90s" and it is also one of the "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".

The influence of The Fat of the Land on my musical formation at this time is indisputable. It was during this same period that I bought my first physical sampler (Akai Emu E4X Turbo) and started mixing electronic music (techno, dnb, jungle, electro) with underground genres (rock, punk, heavy metal) and more traditional styles (classical music, jazz, new age, pop).

Hope you enjoy the song.

Loud (ft Electra Volcana & Chris Hardisty)

Unbelievable

Look at you sorting through your halos.
Just as I am walking through the door.
You ain't got many words to say to me, though.
It's not getting better than before.
We must abide.
In the Cassiterides.
No, I've never caught a rabbit, and I'll never catch a rabbit with you.
Now, there's no coming back, no matter what I do.
What fools.
We were.

We don't all exist within the same world.
One in which the choices never end.
I'm sure it's lovely in your sunshine.
The grass looks pretty green from down our end.
We struggled by.
In the Cassiterides.
No, i've never caught a rabbit, and I'll never catch a rabbit from you.
The bottom rung of the ladders are simply rotten through.
Boo-hoo.
For who?

Save me.
Out here in the cold.
Your safety.
Is mostly made of gold?
Tame me?
When I'm knowingly mis-sold.
Lately.
Just sat here getting old.
Out of the fold.

You little bastards, always wanting a bit more.
Oh, there's certainly some more of what you've had.
Just poke your head above the parapet.
Quickly have a look and then just grab.
Want an easy ride?
In the Cassiterides.
Oh, you'll never catch a rabbit, and they'll never catch a rabbit for you.
Rome is built for Romans, not for you.
Not you.
Not you.

Safety?
Out here in the cold.
You'd save me?
But I dont have the gold.
Tame me?
Never in this life.
Hold me back?
What gave you the right.
Oh, the right.


Rabbits

When I was improvising on the choir track "Blazhen Muzh" from Rachmaninoffs "All night vigil" this track came out. I called it Halleluja because the main vocal line in that choir piece is Halleluja.
I asked the one and only Jenny https://on.soundcloud.com/Kemf8 if my improvisation captures her imagination. She felt it expresses the following: Waking up in a room flooded with light. Light everywhere. Next to a loved one and the feeling of being infinitely grateful for this moment.
When I first put her vocals to the track I really had to cry with emotion.
I hope this little piece moves you too.
And Jenny, I want to thank you so, so much, for giving me and my little musical piece these feelings. I hope some day much more people will have the opportunity to listen to your voice.

Morning rises - feat. Jenny

Two Lovers

The Playing Fields Of England by These Guitars Say Sorry critiques the glorification of war and questions the romanticized ideals of heroism often associated with it. The song emphasizes the sacrifices made by ordinary soldiers and challenges the notion that war is something to be celebrated or revered.  These Guitars Say Sorry's  folk-inspired songwriting style, is accompanied by his percussive acoustic guitar playing acting as the perfect backdrop for the song's post punk lyrics.

On the playing fields of England
There are battles won and lost
I have seen them fought so many times I had almost forgot
That it's a pleasure and an honor as you go out to die
I'd do it all a thousand times for the old school tie

So hold your head up high
So I can see you're full of pride
As you lay down your life
On the playing fields of England

Past the ranks of blue and gray
Into the old school hall
You can read the roll of honor or heed the distant call
Like your father before you, you'll tread a distant land
You didn't learn the first time, so now you're going back

I look in your eyes and I can see the pain
And then you ask me who's to blame
I told you it was much more than a game
On the playing fields of England

Nobody thought to question why you went to die
Bravely put on the uniform and joined the end of the line
But age brings with it wisdom, but you'll never grow old to know
On the playing fields of England, you will reap what you have sown

As they fly your body homeward, draped in your country's flag
Past lines of grieving relatives who know you're never coming back
On the playing fields of England was where you chose to play
But a generation of you went marching to the grave

As you lie facing the sky, I can only wonder why
You believed a pack of lies about the playing fields of England
The playing fields of England


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The Playing Fields Of England - These Guitars Say Sorry [folk music | protest songs]

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Alterkix is a one woman project by Sabine Vermeylen. From Gent, Belgium.

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