Entry for /r/songaweek Week #1 of 2025 - theme is "Passage of Time"

I tried to get a real early-eighties feel for this one, using Cherryaudio emulations of the Jupiter-4 and Polymoog synths, as well as their reverb and echo emulations. I also used different mixing/mastering plugins - sticking to vintage/tube emulations and a tape saturation module.

The lyrics I nicked then adapted from various different English translations of Rabindranath Tagore's poem "Taj Mahal". The Shah Jahan created the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his late wife, and even though the passage of time has removed all other traces of his empire, this one thing still remains...

Lyrics:
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Life and youth
Wealth and glory
Swept away
Down the river of time

Imperial thunder
Fading like the
Sunset’s splendour
In the grieving sky

An empire vanished
The throne lies shattered
Minstrels sing no more

Yet one thing
A solitary
teardrop hangs
on the cheek of time

A teardrop on the cheek of time
A teardrop on the cheek of time
A teardrop on the cheek of time
Forever

A teardrop on the cheek of time
A teardrop on the cheek of time
A teardrop on the cheek of time
Forever

Teardrop on the Cheek of Time

ALLICORN makes hypnotic, dark music. Walls of reverb, grumbling bass and echoing, pitched up vocals with banging rhythms. I'm influenced heavily by black metal, psychedelic dance music, goth, new age and 90's shoegaze. What flows from that mixture is a dreamy, melodic sound with a feel of the fatalist, the bleak, and the dark.

Witchhouse. Darkwave. Witchgaze.

Signed to the legendary dark electronic label Untitled Burial. See links below!

New album coming! Currently looking at the end of January 2024. More soon!

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Full albums and awesome other artists on the label Untitled Burial on Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube, everywhere. Older stuff, Soundtrack commissions etc on my own Bandcamp...

Thank you for taking the time to listen to my tunes, for the love and for your music ✨️ 

 ~ Sera @witchleaf

Teardrop on the Cheek of Time

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