Where Are You?
"Where Are You?" is the first single I released on streaming platforms. A song written four months ago, it's probably my favourite out of all I have written or tried to write in the past year.
It was inspired in the most part by me being alone for a week or two, when my girlfriend went for holidays with her friends, and I had to take care of myself by myself in the cold winter months. She's Chinese, just as most of her friends here, and she'll be going back to China by the time summer is over, so they would often go for week long trips to different European countries to make the best of the time they have here. Me and her would have this thing going on, where I would write a song for her every time she disappeared. This one was the second or third one of this sort.
I started the song with the main guitar riff, planning on making a polish new wave type rocker, but soon realized that it's taking a life of it's own, and the finished track would be very far off from the vibe I was going for initially. A darker, more moody one. The lead guitar parts came from me playing around with a stock amp simulation in Ableton Live, and after trying to change the tone sa couple of times, I decided there is no point, as the high-pitched, chorused and reverbed sound is the best one here.
I wrote and recorded the whole thing in the span of one evening, with the arrangement being done fairly quick, but the vocals being the tricky part.
I have a problem with writing lyrics, you see. I'm not much of a poet, and the things I write usually follow a similar pattern, but I try hard to break that. In this case I wrote two new verses, the two first ones, and then looked hard through all y notebooks in search of something cool, eerie, and with a little psychedelic taste, finally finding the "Hearing the steps of the sun" part.
With the whole song being based on one riff, the vocal part had to be unique and ear-catching enough to make the listener think there are verses, pre-choruses and choruses, when in fact the whole thing is just one groove. It succeeded pretty well if you ask me, one could be mistaken to think there are actually different arrangements, just because of the voices.
The chorus melody is 8 vocal parts recorded one after the other, with me changing voices from the middle range (4 voices), to singing the high harmony (2 voices), and finally recording the low one (2 again).
To be perfectly honest, I sort offend this song one of the most realized in my entire songwriting career. I love the dark and eerie feeling it gives off, and I hope you'll enjoy it too – whether when walking down the streets at night or just vibing at home.
SPOTIFY:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jqVI...6e3dea80e74861
SOUNDCLOUD:
https://soundcloud.com/user-748637654/where-are-you
BANDCAMP:
https://bernardmile.bandcamp.com/track/where-are-you
YOUTUBE:
