Snow
Production Notes
Snow was orginally a very nice folk song by Jens Langsjoen (Luke's brother) that I have always liked. As a result, I wanted to bastardize it with a completely different take. So the original was largely a guitar part with a male singing; this version is female, electronic drums, and driven by the piano. It was during playing this version that I found out I hadn't been playing the acoustic version right--essentially, I was playing three measures where Jens/Luke played four in the verses, which caused me to have a dramatic speed increase in the chorus. As a result, the chorus sounded god awful during initial stages as it ws really slow. I came upon the (brilliant?) idea of making the chorus change to six, which I don't think is all that noticeable.
The samples are from two different drum kits of Battery; one electronic and one acoustic. They just loop the whole time, not real interesting except at the chorus where it goes to six. Vocals went through a melodyne -> Compressor -> EQ -> Ping Pong -> reverb (fancy chain from tred essentially), and of course Elly sang them. The piano is actually only playing very simple notes, but there is a pingpong delay that makes it sound like I can actually play the piano (sort of). Then I added some plinky notes throughout. Oh and there is an "edge" style guitar in the chorus that is pretty soft and delayey. There's one bit of production at the end where I had a big echoey drum to make it end the song (which I thought was cool). I am still somewhat torn about whether to have one chorus (2:45) or two choruses (4:45). I didn't like either time very much, and would rather have ahd 3:30->4:00. Oh well. So it goes.
Lyrics
Find a reason now, to keep on moving
Find a reason now, to keep on moving through the snow
'cause it's getting cold
I know my friends are real, I know who to die for
I know there's love in tears, I know what we cry for
So that we keep on moving through the snow, when it gets cold
The love inside of your song, warms the blood in my bones
warms the bones in my arms
and the tears we left behind, will soon solidify
into perfect worlds of their own, this place is our home
Find a reason now, to keep on moving
Find a reason now, to keep on moving through the snow
'cause it's getting cold
The love inside of your song, warms the blood in my bones
warms the bones in my arms
and the tears we left behind, will soon solidify
into perfect worlds of their own, this place is our home
Find a reason now, to keep on moving
Find a reason now, to keep on moving through the snow
'cause it's getting cold
'cause it's getting cold