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Up, towards the light.

Special thanks to @ebumusicc, @alias_hallow and @oncill for all the mixing feedback and help!

And if you're here, major thanks to you, for believing in me.

A Road To Nowhere

Former Hero - Gone Dream (Echorift Cover)

I'm running out on you.

Endless thanks to @oncill for the incredible wonderful guitar work, and to @ebumusicc for the life-saving mixing help :)

LYRICS:

"Come on, stay by the fire for me,
it's pitch-black night and I can't see
more than a foot or two in front of me.

Come on, it's fifty-nine below, 
you've got a furry winter coat,
and I'm freezing solid under this Scotch pine tree.

Cause every time I light a match,
the soaking birchbark just won't catch,
and I'm running out!

I'm running out.

You can see in the dark, you can sense the
autoamputation isn't far,
and you're running out?

You're running out on me?"

"I'm watching from afar, my friend,
you knocked the snow ajar, again,
you doused yourself, and you're so far away from home...

See, I'm guilty, but if I get closer,
you would tear my belly open!
Use my last heartbeats, just to make your hands warm.

I can see the frostbite taking hold,
and I know you wanted a heart of gold,
time is running out.

It's running out...

So much desperation's in your eyes, but
all of us are killers inside,
so I'm running out-

I'm running out?

...I'm running out on you."

59 Below

TRACKLIST: 

Echorift - Constellations' Theme (Unreleased)
Echorift - Monolith 
Echorift - 59 Below 
The Microphones - Solar System
Echorift - An Eye In The Sandstone
Tigran Hamasyan - New Maps
Echorift - The Skull's Mouth (Unreleased)

Echorift (Acoustic Set) @ Dreamwood 2022

My cover of Méditation Des Enfants by Alain Goraguer, from his original score of the film La Planète Sauvage (a.k.a. Fantastic Planet).

Méditation Des Enfants

LYRICS:

I’m sinking into my shadow
Secluding, no one will hear a sound
I’m clutching for jagged handholds
Unslowing before I hit the ground

Vision briefly clearing, there’s a storm below, a storm below
Into the mist; I’m swallowed
A shattered meteor of icicles 
Swiftly burning up

I’m sinking into my shadow (I’m sinking in)
Secluding, no one will hear a sound
I’m clutching for jagged handholds (jagged handholds)
Unslowing before I hit the ground

I’ve sunken into my shadow
Secluded, nobody heard a sound
I thrust my hands out to stop me
Unslowing before I hit the ground

Death Upon Impact

Here's our submission for FORM's All Nighter Volume 7 Compilation! We really put a lot into this one, hope you enjoy it!! :D

Our links:

Echorift:
https://twitter.com/echoriftmusic
https://echoriftmusic.bandcamp.com/

Oncill:
https://soundcloud.com/oncill
https://twitter.com/oncillmusic
https://oncill.bandcamp.com/

Sleepless:
https://soundcloud.com/sleeplessgamign
https://twitter.com/sleeplessgamign
https://uhohsleepy.bandcamp.com/ 

LYRICS:

Parakeet Steve: Heh! I'm Parakeet Steve! I'm just a silly little baby but I love the jungle! I mean look at this place! there's so many interesting creatures around here!
Parakeet Steve's Mom: Steve! Be good out there!
Guy: Oh I’m walking down, oh
Parakeet Steve: Uh woop-dee-doop-dee-doo I’m just a little parakeet minding my own business!
Guy: inaudible There's this fucking parakeet in the way! stomps
Parakeet Steve's mom: Wah dies
Parakeet Steve: sounds of mental anguish Mother... What have they done to you? 
…I will avenge you... 
I'm gonna kill them. I'm gonna kill every last one of them.

I'm gonna take away your moms. Just like they took away mine.... You’ll see.


He took many victims. From all over.

He did
He killed, killed eighty-three 
Eighty-three people to his beak, his blade 
He killed and then he ate
And they were very sad because they had families

Narrator: The town started an ad campaign against him and it went a little like this.
My name is the mayor 
and Parakeet Steve is a bitch fucking asshole we hate him 
As a town we will hunt him till he's dead.

Parakeet Steve! 
(he'll kill again)
(he'll kill again)
He is fucking crazy!
(he'll kill again)
(he'll kill again)
Parakeet Steve!
(he'll kill again)
(he'll kill again)
He is going to kill you!
(he'll kill again)
(he'll kill again)

Parakeet Steve: Ahaha I’m brutally murdering somebody!
Guy: No no no no man listen you can’t– Parakeet Steve: guttural shriek
another guy (possibly Scandinavian): Oh, oh! A parakeet!
Parakeet Steve: Huh?
Guy (maybe the president): What a sweet little parakeet, I’m, I’m so glad to see you little guy!
Parakeet Steve: Hmm, nobody’s ever been this kind to me. Must be a kind man. Damn.

Now, Parakeet Steve grapples with his life choices! Will he choose to be a serial killer again?

He’ll kill again
He’ll kill again
He’ll kill again
He’ll kill again
I’ll fucking do it again!

Parakeet Steve: No, no, I mustn’t kill. I shan’t! Oh, oh heavens. 

As the man was speaking kindly
Steve felt a warmness in his heart
The man was suddenly in harm’s way
And Steve jumped to save him!

As Steve stepped in front of the kind man, he put himself in harm’s way, and subsequently fell to the ground, dead. The townspeople gathered.

(Is that that serial killer parakeet?)
Stop, stop! My name is The Mayor, and I declare that that parakeet saved the president’s life. 
(What?)
We have to sing for him and put him in the Hall of Fame!
(Okay!)

And I know
Your soul is in the heavens, where you belong
Flying high

And I know
We’ll always be best friends, and you belong
In my Special Hall of Fame!

So long, kids! And remember, even if you’re a serial killer, you can always save the President!

Echorift, Oncill and Sleepless - Parakeet Steve's Special Hall Of Fame

LYRICS:

O, Brother of the Tombstones, I come to humbly plead my faith,
seek refuge for these fragile bones inside your cold, indifferent embrace
See, there's nowhere left for me to shelter in, as this blizzard rages away
And, I know, to you, I'm lesser than a snowflake, but I'm not ready to melt today

I'm trying to see a mirror in your metamorphic face, (metamorphic, metamorphic, metamorphic face)
escape the sea of broken skulls, their screaming jaws agape, agape (screaming jaws a-screaming jaws agape)
Will I return to your loving arms, as my body crumbles and decays?
Or is it destiny to drown beneath your deathly ashblack lakes?

And as your shape looms in the night
Countless snowflakes flutter and die
Monolith, you're but a child, 
with a fatal outstretched tongue

In your suffocating white,
the precipice drifts out of sight,
O, there was only me,
falling endlessly,
into your arms,
into your arms,
into your arms.

Into your arms,
your arms.

Monolith

A shard of my debut album, "Monolith" (releasing Fall 2023), a cross-genre project about the frailty of a human life and learning to exist within it. Written, recorded and produced myself.

An Eye In The Sandstone

LYRICS:

He gently entered my jaundiced room
A mosaic of soft brown tones
A subtle scent of pine needles
A presence, inevitable

Whispering, to my still-shivering form
Nothing but blood and bone
"I'll always be right here with you
You'll never be alone"

A shattered clock face in his wake
Willpower, primordial
But he withdrew from my room as a tidal wave
As the cruel sun devoured him whole

Teary-eyed, I promise him I'll wait
Lonely in my jaundiced room
Forever, or until he returns
Or until this becomes my tomb

We've always been right here...

My Jaundiced Room

A song about getting lost.

LYRICS:

	
Find your way, find your way

Straight, left, right, left

Up, up, straight, up, warm

Up, up

Dead end, dead end

Down, down, down, down

Down, down

Rest.

Labyrinth [rotting away in a limestone embrace]

A subconscious fable in three parts about those I fear most.

LYRICS:

[Pt. 1]

Come closer to my side
I don't trust my soul to save itself
Searing knelling in my ear canals
But I've chained you in my pull

We stumble, choking, as we climb
We're inhaling fumes of the crimson sky
I guide you, feverish up the mountainside
I know, I tried, but tonight I just don't feel merciful

Eventually we come to find
A narrow cave to be my catalyst
Claustrophobic as the lives we've lived
Don't you know it's all your fault

I whisper in your breaking mind
Frankly, I am fucking terrified
Trembling, hand in hand, we step inside
But I know I'm right
And you still believe I would do anything for you

I wonder how you'll look
When you're blood and bone
When you're nothing but the cage you've lived in
Will you understand the way I've always cared for you?
As your skull is crushed beneath our collapsing cave

I know, I know you're small like me
Two little droplets in our sea
You'll forgive me
Trapped under a monolith, just trying to break through
And it's partially the truth
But you've always been the hue
Of my resentment
There's nothing left for me, so I'll take everything from you

I wonder how you'll look
When your eyes lose hope
When you've stared into the cave you'll die in
When you've bled enough you'll look into my eyes and know
There's nothing left in you to be saved

[Pt. 2]

[Instrumental]

[Pt. 3]

Dust and floods and crimson skulls
Through heaving walls
I wish it never came to this at all
I know, you were so desperate to save my soul
But friend, no one ever could protect you from corruption of your own

Oh, my sulphurous fingers
Blackened ashes have spewed from my tongue
Tears are blurring my vision
Seeing a volcano erupt blood
But I've gotta remember
This is only a means to an end
A moment someone understands
So I climb back down, to do it all again

Again, again, again

Cave Song

A song about dying.

LYRICS:

We exist in the mouth of a great skull
She's everywhere at once
We cower in awe when she crushes her jaws
To tear the flesh of our breath from our lungs

Oh, and I feel her hunger for me
The forest ablaze would devour the seed
Oh, and I feel her starving for you
And I plead but I fear you're next in her queue

We live in the mouth of a great skull, and it's painful to speak of death
But there's nowhere to hide, when her jaws finally grind, will our eyes be closed or open?

The Skull's Mouth

The stars speak.

LYRICS:

You'll never be alone
You'll never be alone
You'll never be alone
We've always been right here

Constellations' Theme

My entry for the Chips 100 compo!

SoundCloud's audio compression SUCKS! Can never get my tracks to sound good on SoundCloud. Here it is on Newgrounds with a much better quality! https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/884159

Sunlit Ruins

LYRICS:
Far away from reach, unknown
I'm clinging on the slipping edge
Tear me down with you alone
Feel the grey sun burning red

Fading out, fading in
Calling out for my world to spin
Fire's bright in the broken night
Take me by the hand, we'll run like wind

Won't you pull me in
Won't you pull me in
Won't you pull me in

Won't you pull me

Dive

THESTATICISENDLESSthestaticisendless
BREATHETOFORMACIRCLEbreathetoformacircle
MYNAMEISFORGOTTENmynameisforgotten
THESTATICISENDLESSthestaticisendless
BREATHETOFORMACIRCLEbreathetoformacircle
IDETACHFROMWHATISREALidetachfromwhatisreal

Life In Greyscale

Vaudlow - This Could Be Ours (Echorift Remix)

Mirage Blade

Waiting in a car...

Waiting for a ride in the dark

The night city grows...

Look at the horizon glow

M83 - Midnight City (Echorift Cover)

Started as a meme but actually kinda turned out good lmao

Happy end of 2020!! Huge things coming in 2021 :)

Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles (Echorift Remix)

☽ composer, producer, songwriter and vocalist ☽

☽ debut album "Monolith" out now ☽

☽ 1/7 of @lightbenders ☽

there was only me,
falling endlessly

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