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Open the Sky - MP3!
🕑 Added 2022-10-01 19:30:18 +0000 UTCI’m back! The holiday was much needed and much enjoyed but I’m excited to be back and working on a heap of new and upcoming projects! This being the first!
For certain a smaller project to facilitate that time away, this song was written and recorded, with the video mostly completed before I left and now I’m back just took a little more work to have ready.
It's certainly the saddest/most emotionally intense song I’ve uploaded to the channel in a long, long time. In truth this song was written on August 5th, which not only was my birthday but also the day of Nerdcore Party Con, an event I had been looking forward to performing at for years after it had been delayed several times due to the Pandemic. And an event I would have been attending had it not been for the Covid I had contracted the day before my flight on the 3rd.
Alone and isolating as the friends I had been desperate to see were partying on the other side of the world and with my US vacation cancelled (though thankfully later rescheduled the following month, sans the convention) I tried to write a song to distract myself. But I guess I needed an emotional outlet and it turned out to be this song.
I sat down with the intent of writing first and foremost about the cat. But ultimately, I didn’t have much interesting to say about the cat. The cat is adorable but really serves as a vehicle to learn about the world, lore and characters of the forgotten city.
The idea of a city filled with abandoned sentient robots so ancient that they don’t even remember how they gained that sentience was fascinating to me. There are various theories about the Companions and how they came to be, but I found the idea that they simply don’t know and that uncertainty to be what was really interesting. So I chose to write from their perspective, unsure and theorising, based on some of the ideas the Companions put forward in game.
I hope you all enjoyed this slightly heavier and less cat-centric take on the game. It’s not often I flex those more serious writing muscles but I’m very proud of the result. Rest assured, there is some trademark Stupendium brand silliness, bureaucracy and sinister authority figure-ness on the horizon. Stay tuned!
Comments
Skullzi (Dez)
I love this song. It eminates a sad beauty.
Tabitha Holzworth
"Humanity was doomed but we have to pay your sin tax" lyrical GENIUS as usual. This was really good. (And did not make me sob.)
Tabitha Holzworth
Honestly I'm a little afraid to listen to this one after bursting into tears in the middle of "Shine Through" lol.
Detective Inspector Me
Beautiful song mate love it
Summer KirbyDoll
I gotta say I get all the feels when I listen to this track, it’s so well done! 😭🙌 As someone who unfortunately hasn’t yet played the game, it’s still extremely easy to appreciate the flex of your lyrical genius, & I also feel like the emotion behind the story (both of the game itself, & how/why/when you wrote the song) is conveyed perfectly 🙌 I’m terribly sorry to hear how covid has impacted your year & birthday especially(!), but hopefully things are doing & getting better! We the fans love & value all you do & create, so as always, please take care & stay well! 🙏 ~Cheers 💛
