Interbellum

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This ominous sounding title and the song itself came to me the day after the meeting between (president) Trump and (president) Zelensky (and of course vice-president Vance) in the Oval Office. This particular meeting left me dumbfounded and baffled and I didn’t really know what to do with my thoughts and feelings so I made this song. To hear someone mention WWIII out loud left me with a lot of thoughts and at the same time gave me the idea for this song. So thank you for the inspiration. First I wanted to call this song ‘The Awful Office’ (it was a ‘regrettable meeting’ to say the least) but that was to harsh and didn’t cover the feeling I had and wanted to express with this song. The title speaks for itself I guess. The songs subtitle is ‘Hemimetabolism’ which means incomplete or partial metamorphosis. Hemimetabolism is describes the mode of development of certain insects. During this phenomenon the offspring (nymphs) of these insects resemble the adults but still have to develop to their adult form (missing their wings and reproductive organs for example). I thought this phenomenon was a nice touch to the development of this song and maybe even the world in general (except for the part about the wings and reproductive organs :p). The world is run by ‘grown ups’ considered as adults (and hopefully) wise people but the world is not run by wise people. It’s still ego’s and money that rule the world. Just look at all the conflicts around the globe right now (without naming countries or people; just read or look at the news). I think that we, the human race, are still in some sort of developmental stage to something that we cannot comprehend at this moment. Hopefully we’ll develop into something better. Song wise the meaning of hemimetabolism is as follows; the ending resembles the ominous beginning and midpart (more or less the same chords and progression) but the song changes into a more hopeful (albeit still melancholic) sound after a short silence. After listening to the ending for a while I noticed it sounded a bit like ‘October Swimmer’ by JJ72 (remember them?). This wasn’t intentional. I think I'll use this song as a closing song on my next EP or album. Anyway, here it is.

Interbellums End II (Hemimetabolism)

As Ämpers@nd I am producing (largely but not always intentionally) melancholic and dark-sounding ambient and soundscapes. Occasionally I produce chill and relaxing (almost meditative) songs and (experimental) electronic music.

All astrophotography pictures (galaxies, nebula's and stars) I have used are made (and owned) by Bob Reijnders. For more awesome pictures check his website: https://astro.bobreijnders.nl/. 
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Brain > computer > music from London, UK .

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