Name: First Part (Inchoate) by Claire's Prelude
Duration: 3 min 4 s
Description: "Inchoate" serves as the introduction to the sonata, a blank canvas filled with possibility and potential. Inchoate sets the stage for the rest of the album, giving a subtle hint of the emotional complexities to come. This piece is still forming, a first attempt at understanding the landscape of emotion. It’s open-ended, incomplete, and waiting for something more.

Two collapses, one after another.
"Skizo" is the album’s longest and darkest descent yet, an 18-minute journey written in two separate moments of depression, months apart. It doesn’t spiral, it fractures. Divided into five shifting sections, with odd time signatures and layered electronic textures, the track mirrors a mind stretched between despair and disillusionment.
There’s no resolution, only reflection. It doesn’t seek to explain the sadness, it just lets it exist. Raw, drawn out, and painfully honest.

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Eighth Shade (Skizo)

There’s a moment, after hope, after enthusiasm, where you catch your own reflection and realise how foolishly you’ve been chasing light through smoke. "Fatuidad" isn’t just vanity; it’s the quiet shame of having believed too brightly in something that was never there to begin with. The song doesn’t apologise for this feeling, it simply lets it linger, with a touch of irony and an undercurrent of sorrow. There's something ridiculous in the way we build futures in our heads, as if daydreams could rewrite what was already lost.

Built around a verse-chorus pattern, "Fatuidad" mirrors this emotional loop, circling back to itself with each repetition, a stubborn echo of imagined outcomes. But toward its end, the music begins to fade into something gentler, stepping carefully toward what’s next.

The imagery feels like a city at midnight, neon lights catching in puddles after the rain. Someone walks alone, a little overdressed for the silence, still playing the part they wrote for themselves, long after the story has ended.

Twenty-Sixth Colour (Fatuidad)

Some memories never leave, they just whisper softly in the silence.

First Shade (Whispers) [Music Box]

A fragile melody spins from the gears of a lone music box, its chimes carrying like distant light through fog. A pause in motion, as if time slows to let a memory surface.

"Inchoate" serves as the introduction to the sonata, a blank canvas filled with possibility and potential. Inchoate sets the stage for the rest of the album, giving a subtle hint of the emotional complexities to come. This piece is still forming, a first attempt at understanding the landscape of emotion. It’s open-ended, incomplete, and waiting for something more.

Vernal

First Part (Inchoate)

The third movement, a waltz, presents the feeling of happiness stolen—pride in another’s achievements, yet unable to fully participate in the joy. "Turgor" represents the tension between holding something back and the yearning to express it. It’s a dance of restraint, a reminder of the unspoken and unseen in the midst of outward celebration.

First Part (Inchoate)

Claire's Prelude

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