For my dark side

Fave Vocals (Vol 2)

Don't search for me...I want to be lost! 🖤

Velvet Something Superdark

Wild Nuclear

Electric guitar, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, two tube amps. All sounds, voice, mixing and production: VSS, lyrics: H. P. Lovecraft.

Part 3 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"But as I stood in the tower's topmost chamber, I beheld the horned waning moon, red and sinister (...) and through an opening in the roof glittered the pale Pole Star (...) soothing me to traitorous somnolence with a damnable rhythmical promise which it repeated over and over:
Slumber, watcher, till the spheres/ Six and twenty thousand years/
Have revolv'd, and I return/ To the spot where now I burn.
Other stars anon shall rise/ To the axis of the skies;
Stars that soothe and stars that bless/ With a sweet forgetfulness:
Only when my round is o'er/ Shall the past disturb thy door."
From H. P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

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Polaris 3 - Slumber, Watcher

Electric guitar, violin bow, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, two tube amps. All sounds, voice, lyrics, mixing and production: VSS.

Part 4 of "Polaris" https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"My head, heavy and reeling, drooped to my breast, and when next I looked up it was in a dream, with the Pole Star grinning at me through a window from over the horrible swaying trees of a dream swamp. And I am still dreaming."
From H. P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 4 - The Everlasting Dream

Blue fluorite from the Dark Forest.  Protected me from a very dark psychic attack. The stone seemed to have an understanding of deep sorrow, one that truly speaks to the heart; one that completes one’s balance.

Dronish 2 From the Black Forest

Electric guitar, electroacoustic guitar, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, two tube amps, object recording (tin toy), voice. All sounds, voice, lyrics, mixing and production: VSS. Image: Kottbusser Tor Subway Station (photo: VSS).

There are these mornings
I open my eyes 
just to cry

There are these moments
right before dawn
when I die

There are the days
all I can say is
let it rain

There are the nights
I pray to sleep
not to wake
not again

But then there's you
there's only you
who makes me feel

Yes there is you
there's only you
makes me wonder

An I'm not
going under...

(for Y. A.)

Tears

Violin-bow on electric guitar, electroacoustic guitar, analog bass synthesizer, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, two tube amps, voice, field recording (two people walking on gravel, birds, outskirts of Berlin). All sounds, voice, lyrics, mixing and production: VSS. Image: Somewhere in Berlin (photo: VSS).

There is the entrance door
there is the wooden floor
there are the shoes in pairs of two

There is the windowsill
and from the window still
there is the same familiar view

There is an empty space
where you used to put your hand

This is your favorite book
this is your favorite chair
this is the blanket that had covered you

This is your favorite cup
this is your favorite tea
it's strong and bittersweet and burning

There is an empty space
where I used to put my heart

Here is the door, the floor
here are the shoes in pairs of two
here is the book, the chair
here is the old comforting blanket
here is the cup and here's the tea
so bitter still and burning

And I am here
I'm always here
yes I am here
like an open window...

Window

Straight into a H6 recorder after a Eurorack mixer.  I do intend to reprocess this track.  Maybe through something like a bark filter or Modular sampler.

FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD

Music: SnowOmen https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen (e-guitar, e-bow, e-piano, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, three different amps). Field recording (jackhammer at construction site), mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark. Image: Deep Sea Ghost Shark (pd)

Chimaera

More of my tracks? Why not try
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyHd9j9itlCD92qasu2OYIw

ZENITH

I used to be so fragile, but now I'm so wild.

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Party Girl

Violin-bow on electric guitar, analog bass synthesizer, effect pedals, unsynchronised loops, two tube amps, field recording (thunderstorm at night). All sounds, mixing and production: VSS. Image: Kottbusser Tor Subway Station, Berlin (photo: VSS)

Heat

This is a song for anyone who has ever lost or failed at something. Someone out there feels this way for you, and you should too. 

Forfeit Fights     

I know you hate them
For saying its true
But you don’t belong here
I know it too

It’s no ones fault
It’s no ones answer
For where we go from here

But I’m with you
Thick and through
Every time
We lose

You don’t owe anybody
Anything
But you don’t believe that
You were raised to think

Your bleeding heart 
Was all the world's to see

But I’m with you
Thick and through
Every time we choose
Sleepless nights
Forfeit fights
Burnt out lights
And shoes

You chose the narrow path instead
Of ones that led to lighter trends
When I fell down and broke the skin
On every hope we didn’t win
You put my arms around your neck
And carried me until the end

So I’m with you
Thick and through
Every time we lose
Sleepless nights
Forfeit fights
Burnt out lights
And 
Sleepless nights
Forfeit fights
Burnt out lights
And shoes

Forfeit Fights

I know it’s not perfect but I hope y’all still liked it :)

Flora cash - You're Somebody Else (Slowed Verse)

Red Zone

Infection

Handmade (Experimental) (Ambient) Sound (Art)

Velvet Something Superdark is 1/2 of  https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen