Motion- Colin Gordon

This is a preview track for my show on the 22nd March, this Sunday @ 7pm w/ the Projection, and also a sample of my new project "Nick Fury and the le with Furious 5".  I don't swear much, and I wrestle with it. The language is representative of the issues, in this case. Enjoy :)

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Emma is a song I hold very dear to my heart.  I wrote it some time ago and have yet to share it.  It was all by accident, from top to bottom.  It started as a sound experiment, with the idea that an echoed synth, as appears in the beginning, can be used to create a constant texture.  The sound of it drew me to continue, and I started to write what I thought was a love song for my lady Brie.  Then I absently continued to write the second verse, or really the second section, and realized that it wasn't a love song for her at all.

It was a love song for a child that I lost once, one who I was going to name Emma.  It was always going to be a girl, and that was always going to be her name.  I could barely hold back tears enough to record the vocals, and some inconsistencies will be noticed.  I left them, though, deliberately, because I would never be able to lay anything down with as much truth in it.  

The ending, too, was by accident.  I was going to continue the song, and I played the last melody, which I like to think of as Emma herself, with a sustained pitch.  The pitch sounded like machinery, a heart monitor, and the slowing heartbeat materialized of that as-yet unacknowledged recognition.  My little brother Dan told me it was enough, and it was.  

Thank you for listening to this, thank you even more if you read this.  I hope that this song can be a window into some joy and catharsis for those who have also experienced the loss of a child or any loved one.

Peace.

Emma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T72IbhHpZk

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