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Velvet Something Superdark

Violin bow on electric guitar, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, 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

Violin bow on electric guitar, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, 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

Electric guitar, electroacoustic guitar, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, 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, analogue bass synthesizer, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, tube amps, voice, field recording (two people walking on gravel, birds, outskirts of Berlin). All sounds, voice, lyrics, mixing and production: VSS. Image: Kottbusser Tor Subway Station, 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

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): VSS. Mixing and production: VSS. Image: Deep Sea Ghost Shark (pd)

Chimaera

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

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