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Tiny Stonehenge Moment
So as you all know, my stock in trade is doing slavish cover versions of my favourite songs.
I lost confidence in writing years ago, but I thought I'd better have another go. This piece of music began life as an improvised session by my son on drums. I picked sections I liked, chopped them up, looped them and then began adding instruments.
A friend of mine contributed the piano and strings. I intend to add vocals to this, but I just wanted to post my progress so far and get some feedback.
The piece is provisionally titled "Marianas" and it's intended to come over as kind of a soundtrack to a deep ocean exploration.
Lyrics:
The Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans
Located in the Western Pacific, it is a crescent scar in the Earth's crust.
Extreme tectonic forces thrust the Pacific Plate deep into the mantle
Three miles deeper than the Carbonate Compensation Depth, the sea floor is covered with diatomaceous ooze
First visited by the Bathyscaphe "Trieste" on the 23rd of January 1960
Huge amphipod crustaceans skitter hither and thither, surviving on sunken wood fragments
One thousand five hundred and eighty miles in length
Seven miles of crushing ocean above you in the cold, dark, Challenger Deep.
The Pacific Plate oceanic crust is one hundred and eighty million years old at this location
Hydrothermal vents spew out sulphur and liquid carbon dioxide.
I lost confidence in writing years ago, but I thought I'd better have another go. This piece of music began life as an improvised session by my son on drums. I picked sections I liked, chopped them up, looped them and then began adding instruments.
A friend of mine contributed the piano and strings. I intend to add vocals to this, but I just wanted to post my progress so far and get some feedback.
The piece is provisionally titled "Marianas" and it's intended to come over as kind of a soundtrack to a deep ocean exploration.
Lyrics:
The Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans
Located in the Western Pacific, it is a crescent scar in the Earth's crust.
Extreme tectonic forces thrust the Pacific Plate deep into the mantle
Three miles deeper than the Carbonate Compensation Depth, the sea floor is covered with diatomaceous ooze
First visited by the Bathyscaphe "Trieste" on the 23rd of January 1960
Huge amphipod crustaceans skitter hither and thither, surviving on sunken wood fragments
One thousand five hundred and eighty miles in length
Seven miles of crushing ocean above you in the cold, dark, Challenger Deep.
The Pacific Plate oceanic crust is one hundred and eighty million years old at this location
Hydrothermal vents spew out sulphur and liquid carbon dioxide.
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