castle in the sky was an amazing movie experience. i mean, almost all ghibli movies are amazing experiences.
"Did you cross over an eternity to get here?" are the first words spoken by A to B when B arrives at a hidden floating island in space. The conversation is between a keeper of the island, and a client who wants to sleep indefinitely. People come to the island to enter cryogenic sleep for various reasons; to gamble with time, entering a deep sleep, hoping to awaken to a better world. It's like continuously resetting a game until you get a good world seed. Either that, or to run away from people; wake up from sleep and who you were running from is now dead - all somber reasons. The island is run by a group (that I haven't named yet), all native to the cluster of floating islands in space. They're kind of like the Sheikah people in Zelda. Anyway, imagine Laputa from castle in the sky and that's the sorta place we're in. Instead of the guardians that sleep here, those are the clients (you can tell I haven't developed this all that deep if I have to make these sorta comparisions xD)
It's a place that I frequently daydream about usually when tired and in need of a place to mentally sleep
If it was in a game or any form of media, this'd be the entry theme to the island
The percussion is comprised of lsd dream emulator sounds
Enjoy!!
Tysm for the frontpage :)
GD song id: 1263720
castle in the sky was an amazing movie experience. i mean, almost all ghibli movies are amazing experiences.
It has such depth. I immediately recognized that the track was yours when the feed was running.
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So if you hear me
Echo through space
Just know I’m fighting
But I’m okay
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These are the final lyrics of the chorus from a song I worked on called “Loquaciousness”
I wrote those words years ago. It is peculiar and exciting to me how a single song can match up with so many situations.
I have seen this Isle that you call Your own.
I have feverishly sketched it on so many scraps of paper that I can feel myself drawing it within my mind’s eye at this very moment. Every rock and tree, every ridge and curve, the way I’d shade each spot; it all evokes an emotion of some sort to the viewer, though it is impossible to predict which emotion that will be.
I can remember drawing this Island on lined paper with a graphite pencil over and over and over and over. I missed many lessons in favor of trying to see it with my actual eyes.
When I look at that island I feel an intense sense of peace.
That the words I’ve written and the pictures I’ve drawn across the years match up so eerily well with your imagined scenario speaks volumes to the life force that flows through the cosmos and how it inexplicably binds us all together… with or without our knowledge.
Hello. I am person B. I have crossed time and disregarded space to get here. The joy I feel in making this connection is legitimately staggering.
The song takes us in and puts a hauntingly beautiful perspective on this place. Its ambience relaxes as it draws you in, and the deephollow echo of the melody forces your heart to contend with the multiple realities you’ve chosen.
And I know I’m not the only one.
Scientifically we are free to hypothesize, and my hypothesis here is that our collective consciousness sees this place as something we all want, and the Universe wants us to know it’s in the future.
If you want it, you got it, you just got to believe. Or perhaps it doesn’t matter. Or perhaps it does. Or perhaps it is simply what you choose to make of it.
What if Earth wasn’t a planet, but an island floating in space? What if it is both an Island, and a Sphere, and a Whale, and 42 potted plants all at once and in the most maddening way?
Philosophy and metaphysical speculation aside; This is a spectacular piece in its own right. I have played it no less than 7 times while writing this comment, and I still feel the urge to replay it when it ends.
Well done 💚
Very cool, the mastering problems are minimal
Thanks! Honored to hear you think the mastering problems are minimal because ngl, they're not my strong point xD
This is beautiful! :D
Love the ambient calming feel it has.
Edit: Congrats on Frontpage! :D
Thank you! :)
Eternal sleep - or as close as you can get to it - is pretty calming hehe
Edit: There are so many great artists on this site. I feel underserving getting a frontpage instead of them xD
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