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London based artist Chris McConville and one-time drummer of indie band, The Bishops, released his first single since 2021 on Friday August 19th 2022. It’s a 7 minute experimental electronic song featuring spoken word performed by American actor, Noelle Adames, who has done a fantastic job bringing the words to life which explore death and the mystery of the universe with her rich, husky tones.
Funny beginnings, in February 2021, Chris hit 3 keys by accident on his keyboard while working on another track and really like the sound. From there the music idea was born and by the summer it had developed into a 10-minute piece, eventually being edited down to just over 7 minutes.
“At the time in 2021 I had just lost my dad to MND and the profound sense of loss and grief was poured into the music with certain melodic notes incapsulating what I felt. Contrary to this inspiration, musically it's a high energy, up tempo electronic track. The spoken word is augmented with dynamic drops and classical atmospheric moments.”
“I had been wanting to do another track featuring Noelle Adames to follow up on our "lockdown" song - 'Isolation Improv, Vol. 3'. I felt this track would suit the spoken voice and had already been working on words that explore death and what happens to us when we die: marvelling at the mystery of the universe, looking beyond the physical plane, seeing myself on top of Tinto Hill, a popular landmark in my childhood home area of Lanarkshire, Scotland."
Credits:
Music and lyrics by Chris McConville
Produced, recorded and performed by Chris McConville
Spoken Word performed Noelle Adames
Mastered by Jason Emberton
Cover art photography by Jeremy Evans
Cover art design by Chris McConville
lyrics
Staring At The Sky.
Looking out the window
Watching the world
Staring at the sky
Eternally transfixed by the moon and the stars
Tonight Venus is shining bright
All those miles away
I imagine being there and looking back at me
All those miles away
Looking out the window
Staring at the sky
Watching shape shifting clouds
When I think of all the departed souls I've ever known
Where does all that energy go
Do we return to the earth and stars
Have you transcended to a higher plane
Will I ever see you again
Will I ever see you again
I can't believe you're gone
I'm just stuck with the thought
As sit here trying to cloth the thoughts in language
But the thoughts transcend words
And leave still craving explanation
Suddenly I remember everything
My memory playing reruns like an old VHS tape
In hazy dreams
Those times when I was with you
Have an everlasting quality that will stay with me
An intimation of immortality
Fragments of eternity
Consciousness that inflicts pain and joy in a single thought
Suddenly I see myself on the central mountain of the world
At the top Tinto
10,000 years ago
When the glaciers first carved this land
10,000 years ago
As I walk these quiet city streets
With every step on every piece of ancient ground
I realise the central mountain is everywhere
100 years from now
When all my atoms will have long since turned to dust
And any memory of my life long since faded into the silence
Out of which we come and back into which we go
It's the tick, tick, tick of time that marches on
It's the tick, tick, tick of time that marches on
Shutting out thinking and time
To open the eternal dimension
Walking in rhythm with the universe
Experiencing the eternal in fleeting moments
With only a feeling in my minds eye
Today feels like a new day
And also a fragment of eternity
Looking out the window
Watching the world
Staring at the sky
Eternally transfixed by the moon and the stars
credits
released August 19, 2022
Music and lyrics by Chris McConville
Produced, recorded and performed by Chris McConville
Spoken Word performed Noelle Adames
Additional stem mixing and mastering by Jason Emberton
Cover art photography by Jeremy Evans
Cover art design by Chris McConville
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