Winter solstice for the last generation
I’ve always been obsessed with the hours of darkness in different locations when the equator is furthest from the sun.
I decided to create a bass line around the numbers on my CMS sequencer I included a long drone as I watched the sun set.
It makes me feel connected to the past. I am affected by this season, it feels heavy and closing in.
Others around me share that feeling, it makes us want to hibernate, as winter solstice on the 21 December marks the start of winter, this is a sensible response.
The chords are minors, but they feel triumphant. I imagine massed voices chanting, maybe I’ll look for or create some of those to add in.
It made me think about the power of nature, and how it must have felt to people in the past who knew what was happening to the light and the dark, but not why. Finally, why the last generation? A group of climate activists in Germany named themselves Leztze Generation, I find this a really poignant and alarming recognition that they could be the last generation, and it makes me question where we will all watch the final solstice together?
They could smell the crackle of the air as the sun made its low arc across the sky returning to the horizon for the final moment, never to be seen again by their eyes...
BandCamp Solstice Fur Letze generation
Apple Music solstice-fur-letze-generation
Spotify Solstice Fur Letze Generation
Karl Magi, Synth reviewer kindly posted this review of the track
Synth Single Review: "Solstice Für Letze Generation" by PolarvoidX
Author:
PolarvoidX’s Solstice Für Letze Generation mingles misty desolation with an undercurrent of threat. Intensely shining chimes ring out above a gruff, swirling lower sound that trembles below. Chimes flicker and ring out, forming a pattern as wide, flashing sounds slice through and intertwine as broken bass throbs.
Sweeping sounds float through as the music creates a sense of hidden, misty shadows. There’s a feeling of omnipresent danger hidden just out of reach. Hissing, metallic sounds shiver and dense bass slowly shifts while reverent notes breathe. Crunching, gritty sounds vibrate hungrily as the swirling, misty background sends out seeking tendrils.
Diffuse sounds add dark undercurrents as raised notes flit past. There’s something desolate in the slowly gliding background to contrast with the animalistic, snuffling synth. Metallic notes scrape through as the reverent underpinning flows past and silence falls. The inevitability of loss is keenly present in the emotional tenor of this track.
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