This week, I'm going to do something a little different, partially because I've developed an allergy to something our cats have gotten into, and it pertains to music. Don’t worry, “Aleks meets Inga” is still being proofread… it’s just going at the speed of basically-zero. It’s still being worked on!
Anyway, this week, I’m gonna share something with you that found its way to my Fur Affinity page and (two weeks after, nearly!) I figured out how to post it to Facebook. I’m not big on social media, if you were wondering. Long story short, about two weeks ago, I was laying in the bed that morning, scrolling through YouTube on my phone, and I heard this song. I'd tried to work on “The Golden Record” (my latest project, somewhat of a throwback to what my writing originally was in middle school), but couldn’t make any progress on it… it was an unproductive day for writing. Anyway, fast-forward to about 7p-8p, I still have that song stuck in my head, so I decide to sit down to my piano and start trying to pick it out. Here is where I think I should mention that, because of the nature of the story (the two main characters are a human named Seth Davis and an alien named Azathoth), I had another scene in my head. It was of the alien’s home planet. Now, I’ll admit that I'm crazy enough (at least in some regard) to be somewhat of an anthem-enthusiast (the ones that come to mind on my MP3 player’s playlist are East Germany, Mongolia, Tuva, North Korea, Buryatia, England (if we’re counting Jerusalem), Tibet, and the USSR). There’s some more on there, but I don’t want to list them all. That’s also not what this is about.
Anyway, back on topic.
When I sat down to my piano and started trying to pick through “Horn of Plenty”, it quickly turned more into the other song in my head, so “Horn of Plenty” fell by the wayside and the other melody slowly took over, I ended up calling it “Tanh Khlokh - Moahen” (literally “Song of Tanh Khlokh” in Azathoth’s language) and it also had some inspiration drawn from the melody pattern of Nối Vòng Tay Lớn when the melody hits the third stanza- it’s the same melody as the first stanza, but you can tell it’s different. It probably doesn’t make any sense, but I’m hoping it does. Anyway, so when I realized I was playing the melody of what would be “Tanh Khlokh - Moahen”, that’s when my brain shifted gears and I decided “Alright, I’m gonna make an anthem for that fake planet and see if that helps my process any. It probably won’t, but I’m gonna try it anyway.”
I ended up with a recording of a little over one minute and it seems to sound good, so here’s a link to the original. It’s worth noting that Fur Affinity doesn’t have a way to change your username on the site (as of the time of writing), so it’s stuck on an old handle I don’t use anymore and would, quite honestly, like to leave that chapter of my life, and the trauma associated with it, buried where it should be.
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