New song! "False Flag", with Ashleigh Cole
I produced this track for Morlvision, an alternative to Eurovision away from the mainstream. Sean Morley Ashleigh Cole was kind enough to help me out. http://instagram.com/ashleighc_91/ I wrote a short description of how I came up with the track on the Morlvision Discord: Apparently my prompt was from @2020mono_db, so thank you to them! Although I tend to avoid writing overly political lyrics for my songs for fear of sounding trite, I was angry about the pro-fascist march in London the week before I sat down to this project and wanted to vent about that. I only discovered that the obsidian mirror was a real thing after I'd already prepared the lyrics, but I'm happy with my interpretation of it as a C16th equivalent to Black Mirror (hence Charles of the Brook = Charlie Brooker. Hey, I wrote this very quickly). The barking vocal idea popped into my head and so I prepared lyrics where every second syllable rhymed in a -A-B-A-B pattern. The good thing about a limit like this is that it forces me to write, and take anything I can come up with. Normally I'd spend forever preparing the lyrics and they sometimes take literally years while I wait for the muse to grab me. And of course it never does, so I end up writing them quickly anyway, just after a delay of a couple of years. So in this case quick = good, and rules to write by help. Those words were sequenced in order as an image sequence, which was then used as a texture on a flag I made in Blender. The maps were also prepared in Blender, with a displacement modifier raising or lowering the map's surface based on a depth map (which originated as a height map of the UK, so the mountains are vaguely accurate). Ashleigh is an actress friend of mine who was very helpful and obliging, and sent me a couple of wonderful takes very quickly.