Patient Hands - Something Vanishing

From my debut album, Stoic (2019). Instagram, Streaming, and more! https://linktr.ee/patienthands Lyrics: "Hear me, Breathing, I surrender, I surrender Here now - My ears ringing, I surrender, I surrender" I remember slaving over this track trying to get the side chain compression right on the vocal reverb. So I was running the vocals into an eventide black hole and then side chain compressing the rest of the tracks to duck that reverb. I think I made the main drone track by recording a self-oscillating filter into a four track tape recorder, and then manually playing "notes" off of the four track by just riding the fader of each track, and sending that into a delay and harmonizer effect chain. This should give you some indication of how janky my setup was in those days. When the guitars finally come in, what you're hearing is a canadian dime coin (because it has the reeded or ridged edge) scratched on the guitar strings in lieu of a bow of some kind. I think I borrowed this trick from Johnny Greenwood or something. But this is a technique I had used to good effect in my side project, Lying Light in the Quiet. And then the drone you hear at the end is again the mutable clouds, possibly used in the same fashion as the pale. But I have a vague memory that maybe this one is actually the clouds being used as a drone oscillator in the old parasites firmware. But don't quote me on that. Tags: Ambient, songwriter, ambient songwriter, electronic, intimate, montreal, saskatchewan, canadian, canadiana, montreal chill, post rock, Brian Eno, Kranky, Godspeed, dave smith evolver, eventide harmonizer, instrumental, ryuichi sakamoto, eurorack, mutable clouds, modular, noise, noise music, delay