Radiate Like This

Melting

I wrote this song by accident.

The initial idea was a piano line I happened upon while jamming with a roommate in 2019, and iterated over again until recording a quick sketch of improvised vocal melodies and nonsense lyrics. I noticed the MIDI I had recorded for the piano line bore a striking resemblance to a mountain summit, and one night the theme clicked, and the verses came to me. Snowblind deals with parts of me I fear incapable of interfacing well with the world, reincarnated without the benefit of the cycle before. I don't want to explain everything I understand the words to mean, because it already does so for me, and can easily mean something else to any person that hears it.

This song was entirely finished 4 years ago, and sat waiting on me to decide it was good enough to put into the world. I spent those years feeling like my relationship to creativity was irreparably damaged, living with family and worrying about being perceived and feeling guilty about doing anything that wasn't in some way earning a paycheck. Since then, I've moved to Chicago and started over on the work to demolish the walls between myself and my outward person. I'll get there. The experience of recording this song is proof that I was able to do it before. I'll do it again.

Kelly Reaves: vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, programming, mixing, and mastering
Jon Heim: some composition & drum motifs

Recorded at a previous residence in Beaufort, SC.
Mixed at a previous residence in Statesboro, GA.
Mastered at home in Chicago, IL.

Snowblind

Okayfine "Snowblind"

Bulletproof

Bulletproof (Portfolio Mix)

Vákuum:
Makay Anna - Ének
Nagy Bálint - Gitár
Makay András - Gitár, ének
Miklósfalvi Máté - Dob, ütősök, ének
Horváth Bettina - Hegedű
Wax Bence - Metalofon
Hegedüs Benedek - Trombita

Közreműködött:
Sillye Gábor - bőgő

Minden dalszöveg és zene a Vákuum zenekar tulajdonát képezi.
Lemezborító: Krizbai Domokos
[Produced by David Solyom - 2013]

02 - Vákuum - Zsúr

Uploading this because I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. Jon and I recorded parts together and eventually decided he should do drums for it, for which he practiced on a Roland e-kit for like two months straight. Then I took his recording and we transcribed the drums into programming for Superior Drummer. This is the existing parts and mix, devoid of whatever thoughts of vocals we might have had for it. I'm keeping it in mind.

02 - Vákuum - Zsúr

Vákuum

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