"The Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey..."

Six pieces inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story "Polaris" (1920).
All sounds, voice, mixing and production. VSS; Lyrics VSS & H.P. Lovecraft. Image: Anonymous graffiti, Berlin 2021 (photo: VSS).

The parts are built on each other and follow the content of the story, so best listen in order...

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Lovecraft : Polaris

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

Part 1 of "Polaris" https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"Into the north window of my chamber glows the Pole Star with uncanny light. All through the long hellish hours of blackness it shines there. And in the autumn of the year, when the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon, I sit by the casement and watch that star..."
Beginning of the short-story POLARIS by H. P. Lovecraft, 1920

Polaris 1 - The Star

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

Part 2 of "Polaris" https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"And it was under a horned waning moon that I saw the city for the first time. Still and somnolent did it lie, on a strange plateau in a hollow betwixt strange peaks. Of ghastly marble were its walls and its towers, its columns, domes, and pavements..."
From H. P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 2 - Olathoe

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)

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

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

Part 5 of  "Polaris" https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"The Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey..."
From H.P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 5 - Trapped

"Herbie's door sound" is an instrumental track off the album "There to here (Part 1)".

Music: Phil Bowen 
Produced and mixed: Phil Bowen 
All instruments: Phil Bowen
The video is available on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTyTeiMG6jk

It is also on Spotify at: 
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gwJjyys5ifVNCe08AnVtI?si=1323fb33f5554ed6

There to here  Pt. 1

Herbie's door sound

Herbie's Door Sound

What The Eyes Do Not See

Cover of "Johnny And Mary by Robert Palmer" 
for anyone interested, it is open for DL and Collaboration.

Johnny And Mary    Instrumental

No To Yes feat. SilverBella / Paploviante Music
Vocals and Lyrics:
SilverBella
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/21613/no-to-yes-main-vocals-92bpm-funk-acapella
https://soundcloud.com/silverbellasings
Paploviante:
Bass, Music Composing, Mix, Picture and Mastering

No To Yes feat Silver Bella

In the darkness of the night
Only occasionally relieved by glimpses of Nirvana
As seen through other people's windows
Wallowing in a morass of self-despair
Made only more painful by the knowledge
That all I am is of my own making
When everything around me, even the kitchen ceiling
Has collapsed and crumbled without warning
And I am left, standing alive and well
Looking up and wondering why and wherefore
At a time like this, which exists maybe only for me
But is nonetheless real, if I can communicate
And in the telling and the bearing of my soul
Anything is gained, even though the words
Which I use are pretentious
And make you cringe with embarrassment
Let me remind you of the pilgrim
Who asked for an audience with the Dalai Lama
He was told he must first spend five years in contemplation
After the five years
He was ushered into the Dalai Lama's presence, who said
'Well, my son, what do you wish to know?'
So the pilgrim said
'I wish to know the meaning of life, father.'
So the Dalai Lama smiled and said
'Well my son, life is like a beanstalk. Isn't it?

Spoken word by Gary Brooker from Procol Harum's 'In Held 'Twas In I'
from 'Live With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra' ©1972
Lyrics by Keith Reid

Mugam Sayagi

J-Techno Driver

Greenpebble Gravel

Tgwltfp1

another dusty track sitting in the back catalogue....

Who Wants To Live Forever (cover)

Composed by: Joan Manuel Serrat: https://www.ouvirmusica.com.br/joan-manuel-serrat/511067/
Version, Arrangements & Production by: Chivicke HomeStudio

A toda orquesta

Autumn Ballad (Orchestral - cover-version - Joan Manuel Serrat )

Handmade (Experimental) (Ambient) Sound (Art)

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

Polaris 4 - The Everlasting Dream

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