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I really like this one here :) Greetings Herald, you made my day :)

Here is a link to the youtube video for the song! https://youtu.be/sXd5B2iSWck
I looked back at the few notes I collected during this Photo Op's song development time-frame and concluded I did not have much to go on after a two year lapse.  The lyrics were not fully documented in my notebook. I must have been using lyric ideas and ad-libbing them into the song. I do not know my state of mind and wish I was better at capturing this closer to the song's conception point.

Life was still fairly locked down due to Covid, Trump was still in-office and the George Floyd protests were ongoing. The song was created without any direct outside musical influence driving the creative direction. This was me inside my studio starting from ground zero and evolving the song over the course of probably several weekends by playing around with sounds, rhythms and textures until a fuzzy shape of cohesion slowly emerged.

Listening back, I suspect, I smashed together two fairly divergent musical ideas. Bold move Dave and perhaps disastrous from a song gluing perspective. I like it anyway. Lyrics were influenced by what was going on around me and one of those things was a narcissist clutching a bible and clearing a peaceful protest with tear gas to enable his next photo op in front of the church.  A holy moment indeed. 

Lyrics
Photo Op
by David Husted

Dew drop dreams
Silly games
Buy some more stuff
Throw it away
Is it me?
Where did I go?
When we turn our backs
let them take it away.

They say it's gonna rain again
I don’t have an umbrella
They say its time to hate again
Photo ops and killing

Is it really so improbable?
State news and oligarchs selling fools
Make lies a game, and fear predominant 
Shake the base of our democracy

Photo Op

The Sanctuary

Where are You Now [Street Mix]

BluBird

Hellcat

Improvised guitar

The Feather

Midnight Talking (For two guitars)

An opener capturing some of the spirit of the album. An upbeat song about timelessness, and being connected to history. Inspired by stoic philosophy and ancient attitudes...

Lyrics:

I'm an old soul
I know that this old world
Is gonna keep on turning
Long after I'm gone...

I've seen unhappy endings
Change to glad beginnings
Temples made of stone
Wither till they're gone...

I'm an old soul
I know that this old world
Is gonna keep on turning
Long after I'm gone...

I've seen maids and choirboys
Turn into whores and rovers
Emperors on their thrones
Swiftly turn to bones

'Cause I'm an old soul
I know that this old world
Is gonna keep on turning
Long after I'm gone...

Mighty rivers raging
Tigers put in cages
Cities of the sun
Forgot and overgrown...

Yeah, I'm an old soul
I know that this old world
Is gonna keep on turning
Long after I'm gone...

Credits:
From Mythologies, releases May 12, 2023
Lyrics, Composition, Vocal, Guitar: Herald K
Violin, Accordion: Stephan Steiner
Bass: Navid Djawadi
Production: Herald K & Robin Gillard
Mastering: waldo@cheops-audio.com
Label: Lindo Records

Mythologies

Old Soul

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recorded to 8 track tape, mixed through a Seck desk straight to a cd recorder around 1999

Do What You Have To Do

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Transfiguraciones En Sol Mayor

To our son

01 - Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Stratus - Rhythmic Attacks
02 - Spitfire Audio - British Drama Toolkit - Ensemble - Woodwind Ens Long
03 - Spitfire Audio - Woodwind Evolutions - A simple Start
04 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Grand Piano Lib Open - Grand Piano Lib Closed - Viola Staccato - Double Bass Pizzicato

Part Two coming soon... 😉

Short Music For Marc L. - Part One

Website: https://heraldkmusic.com

Brand new album, 'Mythologies' out now! CD available here: https://www.hoanzl.at/mythologies.html

'Baudelairean flights through dimly lit urban landscapes 'round midnight... Ballads alluding to Ovid, Homer and Solomon... Lovers wrapt in the sultry bliss of a sunny summer morn... Wine, witchcraft, temptation… The quest for voices to trust amidst a world corrupt… These themes and motifs all weave into Herald K's oeuvre… Come in and eavesdrop...'

Photos on this page: (c) Christina Milassin

Old Soul

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