Very beautiful one here. Nice fine vocals and relaxing tune.

nice track, the piano is excellent, the arrangement very interesting...

Lay your hand across my brow
keep me cool 'til the fever passes
I want to hear some music
as the stars above us dance

(can you see the darkness?)

Lay your hand upon my throat
be near me when I feel fragile
you could crush the air from me
arrest my condition

(can you see the darkness?)

Can you see the darkness?
can you track its spread
as it pulses beneath my skin
it whispers in my head

Lay your hand upon my chest
I need you to feel my heartbeat
remember I  have a heart
just like you do

(I just wanted to hear some music)

Can you see the darkness?
can you chart its spread
as it pulses beneath my skin
it whispers in my head
I need to hear the music
feel it lift me to the airless sky
I want it to bury me in the heavens
leave me to glow like a star

(can you see the darkness)
(can you hear the darkness)
(can you see the darkness)
(could I be the darkness)

Darkness [Original]

Reawakened| Wiedererweckt | 復活
The Narcissus Effect, bois eat noize ['00-07; '25-]

When I originally shifted to a solo music project, I named it 'The Narcissus Effect', after a phenomenon in infrared imaging, in which a cryo-cooled IR scanner detects itself, resulting in it appearing at the center of the image. It was tech jargon, but also a perfect description of creative life/work.

I quit music due to worsening chronic illness. Over a decade later, after a complicated full-lung transplant in September 2024, I was driven to start again. But major changes had to be made. Whereas I formerly sang, played piano, harpsichord,  synths, trombone, and guitar, and performed live; a surgical error left me with limited fine-motor control in my left hand, and repeated post-transplant diagnostic procedures damaged my vocal chords. I'd used virtual instruments years ago, so a full migration was simple. And using a collection of past vocal recordings, I trained an AI model to reproduce my voice. So when listeners hear my new material, it is the product of an artist in his 40s collaborating with the digital ghost of his 20s/30s self.

One thing hasn't changed; like the phenomenon which originally inspired my moniker, I'm still constantly scanning and interpreting the world surrounding me. And finding myself anew in the result.

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