"The Cardiac Rhythm" - The Thin Line (Official Album Release)

What does the line between life and death sound like? Welcome to "The Cardiac Rhythm," an instrumental concept album that places you directly on the sonic frontline of emergency medical services.

"The Cardiac Rhythm" is a groundbreaking work of Biometric Electronic music, where the rhythm itself is born from the vital signs of life. The kick drum is a synthesized human heartbeat, the atmosphere is woven from the hiss of an oxygen mask, and the tension is built from the charge of a defibrillator. Each of the 10 tracks uses a synthesized EKG as its core, creating a cinematic soundscape that is both intensely human and clinically precise.

Embark on a 10-track journey that tells the story of a single shift. The album's narrative arc moves from the calm, steady beat of "First Watch" to the urgent, high-BPM drive of "Code Three" and the dramatic, arrhythmic climax of "Asystole," before finally finding reflection and resolution in "End of Watch." It is a complete story told not with words, but with the very pulse of life itself.

From composer and active 911 Telecommunicator Chris Manning, "The Cardiac Rhythm" is a tribute forged from direct personal experience. This album is dedicated to the paramedics, EMTs, and all EMS professionals of the Thin White Line; the calm in the chaos, the steady hands, and the unwavering voices on the other end of the line.

The Cardiac Rhythm

First Watch

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Phantom Crown

i am in love with the most beautiful woman ever

Dinner For Two

I still love you

Final version of my first single.

How do you think it has evolved from the demo?

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Flatline

Skeleton Key (Three Open Doors)

This track is basically just a series of arpeggios on my guitar, each 2 bars long and played twice in a row before going to the next note.  The corresponding chord is also played on the keyboard and bass in arpeggio style.  The key is in a loose A Major (maybe?)for most of the song, switching to F# Major midway through (perhaps?).

To help this transition, the arpeggio right before F# is C#7 (or Db7 in the key of F# Major.)  This is the dominant chord in F# Major and I think it helps, but the key change itself isn't real noticeable, it actually seems to happen during the Db7 starting at 1:07 (makes sense I guess, as Db7 definitely isn't in A Major, but is dominant in F# Major.)  The arpeggios in this first "A Major" section are A - D(Dsus4) - A - D(Dsus4) - B7 - E - C#m - E - Db7.  The Db7 is supposed to set us up to handle F# a little easier, but according to playing A and F# on my keyboard, the key shifts during the Db7.  The new series of arpeggios in "F# Major" begins F# - Cb - Db - Ebm - F# - Cb - Db - E7, the E7 setting us up to slip back into A Major, which is then just A - D(Dsus4) several more times.

Interesting enough, as before, the key changes back to A during the E7 arpeggio starting at 2:05 (as E7 is dominant in A Major.)  If you have a keyboard, play the F# and the A during each transition.  The shift seems to happen before the "tonic arpeggio" is played, but instead during the dominant chords that lead to the new tonic.  Kind of cool!!

Wavering

Blooms

A very early version of our song 'Fall into Symmetry', this track started as a challenge from @jculkin to add guitar to an ambient horn track. After a few back-and-forths, here's how it turned out.

LYRICS:

Roll underwater
The salt gets in your eyes
It’s blurring all their lies
And days getting shorter
Ignore the worried cries and sever all the ties

Search every dynasty to see what we can find
We haven’t got the time to fall into symmetry
The pieces in align
The king and queen are mine

Where are you taking me?
I don’t recognise the road
I’m tired and I’m cold
Where are we going now?
I’m blinded by the sun
I think my time has come

Roll

t’s all about bullets and knives… Elements taken from a tortured dream of frontman Julien Delay. Founded in 2019 in Gembloux, Belgium, the band draws its energy from 90’s rock and picks up the torch where the decade left off… The debut album « The Art of Dying », an ode to man’s self-destruction is the perfect example of 12 alternative tracks; sometimes melodic, sometimes dynamic but always melancholic.
The music by Bullets and Knives looks forward, yet emphasizes a dark, nostalgic cityscape.

Dinner For Two

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