Day 2 of Musictober 2021, the theme was Suit.

Ok so...
I was totally not inspired by the theme at first...
I'm not the kind of person that would wear a suit, and I usually am not inspired by stuff I don't really like.
So I thought that maybe I could do something about kigurumi... you know like... pajama suit... does that makes sense? (I'm not a native english speaker, so I genuinely don't know if that makes sense)

Aaanyway... I liked the idea of kigurumi, like it's comfy and all, pretty chill. So I wanted to do something with some kind of lo-fi vibe (well something chill at least).
And since kigurumi are a japanese thing, I though "hey why not use some japanese scale?!".
But in the end it almost sounds more like middle-east stuff. Meh whatever... I think the end result is nice, even though it's pretty far from the theme at this point (I guess the important part is more to find inspiration than to really respect the theme).

WARNING: Lots of music theory stuff down here, don't bother reading if you're not interested.

I already worked a bit with japanese scales, I did a transcription of "Tennyo no Uta" by Joe Hisaishi (here he is again...), from the movie "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya".
So I kinda knew how to deal with it, well at least for the Hirajōshi scale (if I'm correct, the second part of Tennyo no Uta uses the D Hirajōshi scale).

But this time I wanted to try something new, and I tried what is explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8zKMrj9P0
I don't know if that's really something super relevant to traditional japanese music (I can't seem to find good sources of information online, if anyone has some I would love to see that). But well, it seems pretty cool anyway, so I went with the "Ryukyu + Miyako-bushi" form (explained at 7:16 in the video), and basically wrote 2 chords:
One with the notes of the Ryukyu part, and another with the ones of the Miyako-bushi part (with a bit of voice-leading), and we just switch back and forth between those two chords.

And to that I just added a minor 7th to the scale, to have more colors to use... Then in the end the track is pretty much just in D mixolydian b6 except I'm not using the second degree of the scale (actually there's a very quick grace notes on the very last note of the flute, which is this second degree, but it's not very noticeable).
Ok, enough with all that nonsense... Why are still reading me seriously?

Kigurumi

A guiding light.

A Guiding Light.

This song could not have been created without the gengli song that is the one that sounds in the introduction
Thanks to him we were able to get inspired to create something just magical <3

Intro track made by: https://soundcloud.com/user-547341264

And this also would not have been created without the wonderful help of my dear friends toy mecha y gracen. Love u guys <3

Collaborators:
https://soundcloud.com/toymecha_music
https://soundcloud.com/gracen-geier

I would also like to thank https://soundcloud.com/connor-schumer for challenging us to make it possible Love u buddy <3

My socials: 
https://www.instagram.com/doggomusic20/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcp-c212dPaLVRj0Re2t5w

Image provided by Toy Mecha

Sleepy Crab │Toy x Doggo x Grace

Purchase link 👉👉👉 https://doggo20.bandcamp.com/track/stuck-in-the-middle

First of all, I want to thank @toymecha_music enormously! If it weren't for him, this project would probably have never seen the light of day 😬
We worked hard to make this song as epic as possible.
Music is more than just sound waves. 
It. is. art.
Thus, we hope that Stuck in the Middle brings you those artsy sound waves this holiday season 🎄🎵🎧
It's all about those couple of minutes of happiness, eh?
Please share, like, repost, comment! Any support welcome and appreciated! Let's help get Stuck in the Middle stuck on repeat 🔂... if ya' get what I'm saying 😜  2k listens by the end of 2020!
Happy Holidays! :D

Lyrics:

I’m stuck in the middle
got you on my mind
and it hurts just a little
when we said goodbye

Autumn leaves are falling
and that's when you’ll go
leave me every morning
laying alone

cause I’m stuck in the middle, I’ve got no where to go
no where to hide,
love ain’t that simple, when I take the low,
and you take the high

Stuck in the middle, we won’t get this straight
why can’t we wait a little
now we’re stuck in the middle

Cold as your demons
boy I’m afraid
its heartbreak season
and you’re running away

Loving you hurts a little
but I’d rather be in the middle

Loving you hurts a little
but I’d rather be in the middle

Artwork provided by la_nai_art
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Kigurumi

Namae

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