Orchestral & soundtrack

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Circlejourney's Homestuck music

A playlist for my personal favourites among my own music.

Circlejourney's best work

Listen to the full album here! https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/album/sburban-neighborhood-sahcon-album-2021

This is my last Homestuck track. (Well, it's intended to be...) It's been an amazing run with the Homestuck fandom. Thank you for being there for my music and making me realise it's not bad!

The bittersweet tragedy and cosmic tone of Homestuck always reminded me a bit of Chinese novels and folk tales, I thought it'd work if I brought my (already overt) Chinese music influences into the track. The backing lyrics at the end roughly translate to "We'll fly forth together / unafraid of the cold and dark / enter the brilliance of the new universe / conductor of the spacetime orchestra."

Lyrics:
Don't be afraid
For no more will you be lonely and friendless
Don't be afraid
We share this space, dark and endless
Too long you've stayed
And though your fate anchors down your spirit
Too long you've stayed, my friend
Let's talk a minute

We've met before, I know your voice
But from which dream, I'm not sure
This is the pause in between the applause
And the overture

Friend, we'll face tomorrow
On the seams of space, we'll sew the past and future
Here's where we start, when the curtains part
To reveal the conductor
The light and darkness dovetail
As the needle threads the tale from past to future
Here we part, fortune guide your heart
Can you hear the orchestra stir?

I recall, I see it all,
A thousand deaths by fire
And you've waited here, but its time that you go
Now the time draws near

Friend, we'll face tomorrow
On the seams of space, we'll sew the past and future
Here's where we start, when the curtains part
To reveal the conductor
The light and darkness dovetail
As the needle threads the tale from past to future
Here we part, fortune guide your heart
Can you hear the thunder?

My friend, we'll face tomorrow (我们一起向前飞 不怕寒冷不怕黑)
Don't you be afraid, a new story starts (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)
(我们一起向前飞)
When the curtains part (不怕寒冷不怕黑)
To reveal the conductor (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)
The light and darkness dovetail (我们一起向前飞 不怕寒冷不怕黑)
The scorelines burn and they'll (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)
(我们一起向前飞)
Return (不怕寒冷不怕黑)
Can you hear the page start to turn? (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)

When the Curtains Part (from Sburban Neighbourhood)

Here's one of my tracks on the Ancestral Album! It's about the relationship between the Helmsman and the Condesce as they journeyed across across the galaxy and conquered planets. That segment of the Ancestors' tale left a deep impression on me and I was happy to get a chance to create a musical tribute to it.  http://tunapuns.tumblr.com provided the art fantastic track art.

Listen to the album at https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/ancestral

The Doom Of The Planets

After like a year, I'm excited to finally be releasing this track.

Frost And Clockwork

This was made for Vast Error Vol. 3 (https://vasterror.bandcamp.com)

Definitely a fanventure to read if you're into those!

Cosmic Significance

UPDATED 13 April 2020: I removed the roaring background noise!

My other track for Vast Error Vol. 4! This one is almost a year old at this point, and there's a bit I would have done different, but it's a lot more along the lines of what I usually make than Immortal, I think.

Thank you Chuchumi for the illustration! chuchumi.tumblr.com

You can listen to the whole of Vast Error Vol. 4 here: https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/album/vast-error-vol-4

Nebula

I think of this as Pala's theme song. Nostalgic and summery the way her design and story always felt to me.

Lyrics:

It's always summer, always summer,
Always summer by the sea
Waiting for change, like I'm in
someone else's story

We're in a summer, in a summer,
In a summer fantasy
Come float away with me

Summer by the Sea

It’s been half a year since I released Time and Tide, so here’s my personal favourite track off of it: Zeitgeist. I’m not 100% sure what’s going on with the instrumentation (it has bitcrushing, an 80s bell synth, and an erhu), but it’s got a sort of retrofuturistic sound to it. Enjoy!

You can still stream and buy the album + commentary booklet + high-res art at circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-tide!

Zeitgeist (from Time and Tide)

I made this track about Terezi's lusus, Dragonmom! It is what it is today because of the mods' advice and for that I'm infinitely grateful.

Thanks ackro for the art!

My other track for the album: https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/the-lights-rebellion

Amniotic Daydream

Low-key one of my favourite tracks off of Time and Tide. 20s-inspired swing thing about women running away from their families to hang out at speakeasies.

Sidecar Swing

One of my two musical contributions to Songs from the Planet Earth! Thank you @bluespacequeen for the vocals and CassandraOOC for the illustration! (https://cassandraooc.tumblr.com)

Check out the rest of the album here: https://songsfromearth.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

For years and years I yearned for the sea
I felt the world was turning around me
Through cracks and tears I peered at its glory
And dreamed, and cried, free me! Free me! Free me!

For years and years I yearned to be free
I knew the world was changing beyond me
And I was disappearing, if only
Someone would just hear me! Hear me! Hear me!

[Distorted vocal]

For years and years, I drowned in the sea
I felt the waters turning upon me
She thrashed, I steered, we tangled and slowly
Our colours ran, mixing permanently

In tears, in fears, I drowned her and she
Became my world, my life and my story
And I was disappearing, if only
Someone would just, hear me! Hear me! Hear me!

For years and years I yearned for the sea
I felt the world was turning around me
Through cracks and tears I peered at its glory
And dreamed, and cried, free me! Free me! Free me!

For years and years I yearned to be free
I knew the world was changing beyond me
And I was disappearing, if only
Someone would just hear me! Hear me! Hear me!


For years and years I drowned in the sea
Till you reached out and dragged me to safety
Beyond the stars, their light burning softly
When will someone hear me? Hear me? Hear me?

For years and years I yearned to be free
I will not let her hate take it from me
I live, and I refuse to be sorry
And no one can take me, make me, break me!

Oceanic Flight (ft. Lillie Blue Lennox)

This is the final track on my EP, The Changing Light: http://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/the-changing-light

The moon floats in the last light of the sun, and all at once you can see both past and future at the same time: the joy and sadness that was, the joy and sadness that is to come.

The Moon in the Afterglow (from The Changing Light)

A commission completed for quidest on Toyhouse--a musical theme for their character Avaula (https://toyhou.se/3901874.avaula-memani)!

Avaula Memani (for quidest)

Track art is by zzzealousy (instagram.com/zzzealousy)!

After the Sun

From a Windchime Wind chime a song I wrote in 2011, this is my 5th time remaking it from the ground up. I was always proud of the composition & nonsensical but evocative lyrics, but never felt like the production matched up. This is my favourite version so far. Thank you for listening!

From A Windchime

Music is my hobby, though I do commissions sometimes. Now officially a musician on Homestuck! Check out @MachinaSolis, my collab with @SerialSymphony! Commissions: @Circlejourney-comms