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The Sad Refrain of Restraint

from Synthaphonics by The Change Music Variety Show

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The Sadness begins as a piano plucks a simple explanation over the surging synths, refusing every false hope of conventional sequence or expectation. Slammed chords float between ascending choruses, followed by more explanatory melody, presaging a flutter flock of synth notes, and introducing the Sadness.
3m. Chords stumble over the Sad Refrain, then climb the steps of hope, plan an escape, then tinkle over it all to make what sense they can out of the chaos of life. A deep call resounds in the forest, and is answered by straining synths, maddening to bubbles of disjointed notes trailing behind.
6m. It swells up from liquid dark, glistens briefly, and a sober melody plays alone, until more twisted harmonies join in, causing the piano to flutter like a bug in the wind. Sadness fights insinuations of glorious hope. The piano joins the fight with some chords, themes collide, and a path is found.
9m. The feeble prayers of the meandering melody-line align with uprising synths, and ends with several simple, insistent phrases.

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The Sadness begins as a piano plucks a simple explanation over the surging synths, refusing every false hope of conventional sequence or expectation. Slammed chords float between ascending choruses, followed by more explanatory melody, presaging a flutter flock of synth notes, and introducing the Sadness.
3m. Chords stumble over the Sad Refrain, then climb the steps of hope, plan an escape, then tinkle over it all to make what sense they can out of the chaos of life. A deep call resounds in the forest, and is answered by straining synths, maddening to bubbles of disjointed notes trailing behind.
6m. It swells up from liquid dark, glistens briefly, and a sober melody plays alone, until more twisted harmonies join in, causing the piano to flutter like a bug in the wind. Sadness fights insinuations of glorious hope. The piano joins the fight with some chords, themes collide, and a path is found.
9m. The feeble prayers of the meandering melody-line align with uprising synths, and ends with several simple, insistent phrases.

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from Synthaphonics, released February 2, 2020

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