I think that winter is pretty much my favorite season, if only because it is the only time of the year that the sunlight is actually bearable for me. Seriously, the only thing that makes me more dizzy is low atmospheric pressure, and wearing caps makes it even worse, probably because of the heat accumulation, not even counting the fact, that every cap I own or wanted to buy is too small, even after adjusting it loose. Am I a vampire or something?! I guess I have relatively long fangs... For this reason I sometimes wish I lived in Scandinavia, though maybe Canada would be better, cause I don't know any Scandinavian languages, but then it would kinda miss the point, because Canada is at the same latitude as Poland... Anyways, that is why I publish this little farewell.

This project started when I experimented with changing the instruments in Neutron Star. I made a nice synth and came up with an interesting melody, which I then copied into a new project (and that's why they both are in 6/4, though I feel like this song better utilizes its divisibility by both 2 and 3), also salvaging the first pad from that experiment a bit later. In the middle I vocoded the first synth, sampled it and used it as another pad. I also made a weird texture/wind thing too by using noise for amplitude modulation. I kinda feel like this song is badly mixed, I'm not even sure what's exactly wrong, it just sounds too loud for me... Oh, just by the end of composing I first realized what the little box titled "sidechain" in the compressor effect actually does. It activates a sidechain.

Story of the title is quite strange this time. At first I've named it in the same temp-scheme as other songs I planned for my game, but then I thought that it doesn't really fit that game and I realized that this song somewhat reminds me of that one HOI4 mod's soundtrack, so why not get an inspiration from that mod's base material? I messaged my friend and he pictured a town coming back to life, and this is when I came up with the title. It is in fact a translation back to English of the Polish title of that show's one episode (the original title was in English, they translated it loosely to Polish, and I translated somewhat directly the translation). If you were wondering what mod and show am I talking about, the HOI4 mod is somewhat recent (or at least it became well known recently) and also really well made, but the show has been around for 10 years, it's for kids and it's kind of a meme, also because of its fandom. Why am I speaking about everything in this way? Because I am somewhat embarrassed that I'm sharing that I am this familiar with that show, even though it's making everything even more awkward... Nah, let's commit to this, barely anyone's going to read this!

Maybe I should send this to the mod's makers?

Soundcloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/user-621585144/farewell-to-winter

Youtube: https://youtu.be/_1D1v3DewhY

DAW: Caustic 3, mastered in Mastering by BandLab

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