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South Chinese Blues on Skervesen SkerveTEN guitar played by artist Stone Shi, 2018

South China Blues - Childhood Water Pond 消逝的清水塘

vadimpetrenko: music, concept, mixing, guitars, voice, digital touch tools: generator, pianos, keyboards, e-contrabass, bass, e-clarinet, strings, brass, drums, percussion, chinese erhu, chinese lute /pipa/, koto, guzheng, chinese kit, taiko

emilia loseva: visual, cover

The Storytellers-Delta Blues Taiko Pots And Pans Chinese Lute Old Piano And Chinese Erhu

Listen to the full album here! https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/album/sburban-neighborhood-sahcon-album-2021

This is my last Homestuck track. (Well, it's intended to be...) It's been an amazing run with the Homestuck fandom. Thank you for being there for my music and making me realise it's not bad!

The bittersweet tragedy and cosmic tone of Homestuck always reminded me a bit of Chinese novels and folk tales, I thought it'd work if I brought my (already overt) Chinese music influences into the track. The backing lyrics at the end roughly translate to "We'll fly forth together / unafraid of the cold and dark / enter the brilliance of the new universe / conductor of the spacetime orchestra."

Lyrics:
Don't be afraid
For no more will you be lonely and friendless
Don't be afraid
We share this space, dark and endless
Too long you've stayed
And though your fate anchors down your spirit
Too long you've stayed, my friend
Let's talk a minute

We've met before, I know your voice
But from which dream, I'm not sure
This is the pause in between the applause
And the overture

Friend, we'll face tomorrow
On the seams of space, we'll sew the past and future
Here's where we start, when the curtains part
To reveal the conductor
The light and darkness dovetail
As the needle threads the tale from past to future
Here we part, fortune guide your heart
Can you hear the orchestra stir?

I recall, I see it all,
A thousand deaths by fire
And you've waited here, but its time that you go
Now the time draws near

Friend, we'll face tomorrow
On the seams of space, we'll sew the past and future
Here's where we start, when the curtains part
To reveal the conductor
The light and darkness dovetail
As the needle threads the tale from past to future
Here we part, fortune guide your heart
Can you hear the thunder?

My friend, we'll face tomorrow (我们一起向前飞 不怕寒冷不怕黑)
Don't you be afraid, a new story starts (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)
(我们一起向前飞)
When the curtains part (不怕寒冷不怕黑)
To reveal the conductor (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)
The light and darkness dovetail (我们一起向前飞 不怕寒冷不怕黑)
The scorelines burn and they'll (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)
(我们一起向前飞)
Return (不怕寒冷不怕黑)
Can you hear the page start to turn? (进入新宇宙光辉 时空乐团的指挥)

When the Curtains Part (from Sburban Neighbourhood)

Davido - Chinese blues Instrumental

Chinese Blues

After like a year, I'm excited to finally be releasing this track.

Frost And Clockwork

References:
"Doctor" by George Buzinkai
"Beatdown" by Curt Blakeslee

Hustle-Bustle

from the score to "PaiGow School," an app by Riddhiman Das

This and "PaiGow School" both feature a Chinese drinking song as their source materials, played on traditional instruments such as pipa and guqin.

PaiGow School (VG Soundtrack): The PaiGow Parlor

the note desolation plays

jades theme! wow we've really come a long way huh fellas?

i always really liked carefree victory and its really one of the only songs that felt like uniquely hers. towards the end i try and do something that like... every homestuck musician i think tries at least once: getting all 4 of the kid's instruments to play something nice together. i think i did alright, i subbed in beatboxing for daves turntables cause its not like you can just carry those anywhere. i guess as opposed to johns piano?? LMAO

musically i have jade start on bass, and as more of her friends come in she gets a little more confident in her basslines. anyway thats my fanfic.

this is the last new piece i'll be doing for the forseeable future, or until i feel like doing another one which might be immediately. ive been doing this on a largely volunteer basis for a while since the budget constraints were tight and we need to pay the bg and sprite artists a reasonable amount. I wanted all four kids to have music by me and i think we'll be digging into the homestuck archive for other stuff.

anyway i hope you've enjoyed the ride! its been a little bittersweet at times for me but i'll miss posting new stuff every two weeks.

Messy arrangment of Wubai & China Blue's "Norwegian Forest"

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