"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

Sketch of Artificial Intelligence

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, lyrics, mixing and production: VSS.

Part 6 of "Polaris" https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

I never wake
I never open my eyes to reality
to cruel to see

I'm home again
home where I belong
deep inside of me

There is no fear
there is no pain
there is no longing
there's no shame

And the dream
is just beginning...

Polaris 6 - End Is Beginning

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

Electronic Rock

Hyper Drive

Sans fin.

Sans Fin.

I can’t take my mind off you
I guess that you were long over due
And I don’t need to verbalize 
Cause I think you realize 
What you do to me girl

So let’s make the most of every minute we’ve got
You smell so good  and you look so hot
And there’s something in the way you walk
And there’s something in the way you talk
And there’s something in the way you smile 
That I just can’t put my finger on but I really like you
You make me feel much better than human has a right to

You make me feel so happy  You make me feel so good.
You make me soar so high.  Higher than I ever thought I could.

I don’t know how long this is gonna last
Although the fire is hot it can burn out so fast
So let’s do the best we can
And though we may not have a plan
Yeah we’ve got style 

We’ve got each other tonight and the feeling is right
Let’s go out and party until daylight
And there’s something in the way you walk
And there’s something in the way you talk
And there’s something in the way you smile 
That I just can’t put my finger on but I really like you
You make me feel so much better than a human as a right to

You make me feel happy.  You make me feel so good.
You make me soar so high.  Higher than I ever thought I could.

I’m attracted to your body I’m attracted to your mind
You’re the kind of woman that I thought I’d never find
I’m attracted to your body I’m attracted to your mind
You’re the kind of woman that I thought I’d never find

You make me feel so happy.  You make me feel so good.
You make me soar so high.  Higher than I ever thought I could.

I’m attracted to your body I’m attracted to your mind
You’re the kind of woman that I thought I’d never find

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