Name: My First Dog - Ten Horses In My Stable - HEVELWOOD MIX by Hevelwood
Duration: 3 min
Description: Remix of @user-462126067's take on Child Owlet.

Track to accompany the bedroom level in Closed Forum's Anxiety Arcade.  Full soundtrack coming Friday 21st May.

Anxiety Arcade is a game exploring mental health issues in a fun and accessible way.  It will be displayed in a retro arcade cabinet in Trinity Centre, Leeds as part of Compass Festival from 24th-30th May

https://www.closedforum.co.uk/anxietyarcade

Wake Up

Track to accompany the bathroom level in Closed Forum's Anxiety Arcade.  Full soundtrack coming Friday 21st May.

Anxiety Arcade is a game exploring mental health issues in a fun and accessible way.  It will be displayed in a retro arcade cabinet in Trinity Centre, Leeds as part of Compass Festival from 24th-30th May

https://www.closedforum.co.uk/anxietyarcade

How Long Can A Shower Last

Another one for the Old Tunes Fresh Takes Podcast submission. 
I started out with the idea of making it as a murder ballad but my voice doesn't have that much grittiness. Added some bass and chucked on some FX on the bass the mix, I don't play bass, but I liked the weird sounds at various spots that my bad  bass playing added.

Chld Owlet Ballad

Child Owlet

This was recorded for Old Tunes Fresh Takes podcast episode 9, a recording of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Owlet .

For this I tried to use as many historical instruments (lute, recorder, hand drums, frame drums) as I could, but tried to make the actual composition more modern than historical. I had the cellos play a throbbing simple line of just the chords’ roots so that at first it sounds almost like singing over a drone, like you'd hear with a hurdygurdy or a lot of renaissance music.

I put a few measures instrumental in between each pair of verses to allow the listener some time to digest the story, since it’s a lot to take all at once. I tried to vary up the instrumentation from verse to verse to keep the listener interested and for it not to start to feel formulaic, which I think is a danger on longer compositions that are strophic/verse based.

My version of the Yoruba traditional song Iwe Kiko, all about remembering to be respectful of tradition in your learning. The original lyric focuses on the importance of agriculture in an increasingly urban world, but I've shifted that a bit to look into my approach to songwriting, and how having a deep appreciation and understanding of your influences is important, and in this case worn quite overtly on my sleeve.

Put together for the Old Tunes Fresh Takes podcast, as always, a total blast to do.

This features a sample from Tosinger's version of the song, sun by her sons.

Eyeless Chalonstone - How Young Eyeless Got His Groove (Iwe Kiko)

my remix of https://soundcloud.com/hevelwood/child-owlet

hevelwood's child owlet

Remix of @user-462126067's take on Child Owlet.

My First Dog - Ten Horses In My Stable - HEVELWOOD MIX

I wanted to replicate the feeling I get from a lot of dreampop or Shoegaze, but with a focus more on historical and classical instruments, but effects galore. In process it became more and more of a shifting image, and even the returns to the repeating cello line started mutating each time. Distorted and filtered the drums enough that they start to feel more like waves or tides than just percussion.

Instruments: Lute, Cello, Subtractive Soft Synth (Reason), Recorders, Doumbek, Tambourine, Drum Machine

Cloudy Scries

Instruments:
Jazzmaster guitar, Bias Amp Simulator, Propellerhead Reason

Razed Permanent

Though it starts with basic Travis picking fingerstyle on a pair of nylon string guitars, I wanted to lay a few themes over that, be it mildly dissonant percussive lead of another guitar, or the smooth mellotron-sax lead. Overall image aiming for is walking through life like worker ants, with jarring moments of wonder and clashes, but the underlying rhythm pulling forward and being persistent.

Instruments:
Spruce Classical Guitar, Cedar Classical Guiter, Propellerhead Reason

My First Dog - Ten Horses In My Stable - HEVELWOOD MIX

Hevelwood

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