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For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition)
Release Date: June 24, 2017
© 2017 Keith Richie

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition) holds a deeply personal place in my heart. While the original version was released in 2012, the journey toward its completion began four years earlier—and it was anything but easy.

During that time, I was navigating an emotional storm. Sitting down to compose felt nearly impossible. When I could gather the energy, I might play a few notes, sketch an idea, or tweak a voice—but more often than not, I’d walk away. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months. The weight of everything I was experiencing made it difficult to focus, and each return to the project often pulled me deeper into a place I was trying to escape.

In retrospect, it’s no surprise that the album drifts between emotional highs and lows—it mirrors the state of my life during those years.

By late 2011 and early 2012, something changed. I began to reclaim my passion for music, bolstered by the support and encouragement of those close to me. I took the six tracks I had and began shaping them into something complete. I didn’t want to release an EP, so I included a reprise of Sea Dragon—essentially the same track with a new intro and outro—to bring balance to the album.

Then, something unexpected happened: I found inspiration.

A piece I’d been struggling with suddenly came together. That track became For the Willow Weeps Underneath the Stormy Skies, and it resonated with me so deeply that I named the entire album after it. Through the presence of someone very close to my heart, I found the strength to finish what I had started.

Although the original album released in June 2012, I always knew I’d return to it. Years later, with new perspective and growth as a composer, I revisited the project. I remastered the original tracks, removed the two earlier versions of Sea Dragon, and kept only the Reprise. I also wrote three new pieces to fully realize the album as a complete emotional arc—one that finally reflects the depth I had envisioned from the beginning.

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition) is a story of emotional resilience—of navigating darkness and finding the courage to move toward the light. It’s about owning your story, embracing your pain, and realizing that only you have the power to shape your future.

We all face sorrow—but even the longest night eventually gives way to dawn.

This edition is dedicated to my wife, who showed me what true happiness is.
She is my sunrise.
She is my Willow.

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🔗 links.krichie.com/ftww  

Father Time

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the Amanita Design (creators of Machinarium) with original music by Floex. 

Soundtrack included in Cosmic Edition of the game (via http://samorost3.net ) or available separately (store.floex.cz/album/samorost-3-soundtrack)

Samorost 3 Soundtrack

The Secret Room

Импульс-80 - Межзвёздный Роман

Летний день | Summer Day

Детство | Childhood

for my participation in this week's junto debacle, i decided to go all modern and use the ipad as instrument/recording device of choice.  for the instrument part, i used a generative-ish sine player patch i built in an app called "jasuto pro" - i let the app play (while feeding it a few root notes on the virtual keyboard in jasuto).  the ipad's signal then ran through an analog fm radio channel (87.5) using a short range fm transmitter.  the receiver for the fm signal was my father's old beat up 40 year old stereo amp(something i used to record old hip-hop shows with when i was a kid).  the knobs on the amp are incredibly dirty so i fiddled with them subtly while doing the initial recordings of the generative sine patch.  the dirt in these pots provided a ton of gorgeous grit and crackle.  for the second take, i ran the original recording along with a new generative 'seed' from the patch back through my analog mixer, then through the tape player on the old amp(using a generic 1/8" - tape adapter) - pushing the eq high on the mixer, creating a lil feedback here, a lil distortion there via the tape head.  i also used an old dod dfx94 delay pedal to get a little feedback action with the mixer.  after a couple takes of this nonsense i finally landed on something that sounded decent.  the final mix was posted a bit using an ipad app called "hokusai".

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Импульс-80

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