The Souls of Insects

About this track

DISCLAIMER: This one is...challenging. It might actually be un-remixable, I'm not sure, but I did feel like it might be worth sharing since it's one of the most complex and interesting things I've ever written. I had written a very long description explaining away some of the defects in the recording and it occurred to me that it was relatively unnecessary. These vocals are not dry, this is from my early recording days when I didn't know how to do things properly, and basically I *can't* take the effects off now. It's mostly reverb and echo though, and it kind of goes with the creepy atmosphere of the madrigal. (I do promise that the Yeats poem and the extraordinarily long pause do make sense in context and this is one of the few times I will ever tell people to take a look at my myspace page if you are having a hard time understanding how in the hell this could ever work) I wrote this either while I was reading or right after I finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. That book stuck with me quite well, and I adore it. It is in 3/4 and in the key of E minor. Lyrics, because God knows you probably won't understand them in the pella: There are bells in this fores