Across The Water
Female alto vocals. Start with granular sampled brass swells in an avant garde jazz context for the intro, transition to the buildup with bitcrushed snares and ghost notes from breakbeat, then bass drop into sidechained detuned synth pads layered with saturated sub from witch house, shift to a chopped jazz piano loop with transient shaping and soft tape flutter for the breakdown, fill with glitch-processed field recordings and reversed saxophone hits in vocal jazz style, hit a second drop of FM bass modulated with vinyl crackle texture and syncopated stuttered breakbeats, and finally fade into decaying analogue synth drones with convolution reverb tails for the outro.
Across The Water
Female alto vocals. Start with granular sampled brass swells in an avant garde jazz context for the intro, transition to the buildup with bitcrushed snares and ghost notes from breakbeat, then bass drop into sidechained detuned synth pads layered with saturated sub from witch house, shift to a chopped jazz piano loop with transient shaping and soft tape flutter for the breakdown, fill with glitch-processed field recordings and reversed saxophone hits in vocal jazz style, hit a second drop of FM bass modulated with vinyl crackle texture and syncopated stuttered breakbeats, and finally fade into decaying analogue synth drones with convolution reverb tails for the outro.
Lyrics
Across the water,
Where the river flows
Down down down.
The murky depths lie.
I stand here,
On the edge.
At the end,
Of the line.
God oh gods
What have you done to me?!
Please just set my soul free
Can’t let this twisted fate be
If only I could bre-e-eathe.
Do I pray to sleepy Lethe,
And wash my soul in it’s river?
Forget these memories of you?
Erase the sorrow of your loss.
Or do I cast my body
In the river of Fire,
And shed this mortal coil?
Just to see your face again.
God oh gods
What have you done to me?!
Please just set my soul free
Can’t let this twisted fate be
If only I could bre-e-eathe.
No silver on my tongue,
Just this heartache I bring.
I swore on the blackest wave,
I am coming home, my love.
They call me Brave,
But all I fe-e-eel
Is Cowardly.
Half in half out
Beyond the veil.
God oh gods
What have you done to me?!
Please just set my soul free
Can’t let this twisted fate be
If only I could bre-e-eathe.