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Welcome to another collab between John Styles and Colin Powell (aka @a-multitude-of-one).
For me this song went through the weirdest development ever, I composed this song 30-5-15 for a school project, as Matt Baker and I were very busy with our Feng Shui project, I’ve send the 1st premix to Colin and asked him if he could add some guitars to it.
Colin send me a completely unexpected mix back for me to consider, without guitars (as to his opinion the guitars were already spot on) but he added beautiful flute and French horn to it instead.
At first this piece was motivated on the situation in the world with all the attacks and war everywhere.
Then I wanted to make this piece longer playing along with all the tracks, as I felt with the additional tracks from Colin I could also change the message into something beautiful, for example if you come at spots in the world where nature shows it’s splendour, the calmness and relaxing feeling you can get enjoying it.
But for some reason nothing worked, so I put this song aside as I wanted to try it later again.
But this song never left me alone, and I kept trying but for some reason whatever I did with those tracks nothing seem to work or sound alright to me.
Then I suffered from a mid-ear infection for 6 weeks, and couldn’t hear properly what I was doing (which frustrated me even more), I wasn’t able to perform proper productions anymore.
The more I tried the worse the song became, so after my ears started to get better, I took the original song, trying to find out what was going wrong all the time, as I never experienced this before.
I decided that I would listen to it over and over again, and trying to find the proper cover for the release, until it would hit me, I came across 2 pictures 1 as you can see now and 1 of me walking in the hills taken from behind.
Without going into detail, the latest developments and disappointments I had to go through in my life, finally gave this piece a meaning, and it also made me realize the song was ready all along.
I always tried to make music for others, to give comfort and bring positive emotions to them.
But to accomplish that, there’s always this moment that you’re “Numb” or “Speechless”, you’ve got no idea what hit you, first you have to go through that face, and to accept the facts that brought you there, then you can climb up, and find the right road to continue your life.
No matter what, accepting the truth (how hard it can be) is always better then a soaring wound, I tried my hardest to push those feelings away, like there was nothing going on, but it just made things worse.
It’s better to deal with those feelings and get them out in the open, so your inner wound can heal.
When I listen to this song myself, I can hear the Guitars, the Piano and the French Horn expressing all my sorrows and pain, and the Flute and Strings trying to comfort me and pulling me out of this painful thoughts.
It’s OK to be “Speechless” it’s a faze you have to go through, in the long run it will make you stronger.
The open ending I left in this piece (on purpose) is so that everybody can fill in their own story or meaning.
I am grateful to Colin for the 2 tracks he made, unintentionally those were exactly what this piece needed, at least I think so, and who knows I might pick up this song one more time and redo it all over again.
Composer & Arrangements: John Styles
Flute and French Horn: Colin Powell
All other instruments: John Styles
Producer: John Styles
We hope you’ll enjoy this piece, and it will give you some comfort and relaxation to you life too, all your comments and advices are very much appreciated as always, cheers John and Colin
For me this song went through the weirdest development ever, I composed this song 30-5-15 for a school project, as Matt Baker and I were very busy with our Feng Shui project, I’ve send the 1st premix to Colin and asked him if he could add some guitars to it.
Colin send me a completely unexpected mix back for me to consider, without guitars (as to his opinion the guitars were already spot on) but he added beautiful flute and French horn to it instead.
At first this piece was motivated on the situation in the world with all the attacks and war everywhere.
Then I wanted to make this piece longer playing along with all the tracks, as I felt with the additional tracks from Colin I could also change the message into something beautiful, for example if you come at spots in the world where nature shows it’s splendour, the calmness and relaxing feeling you can get enjoying it.
But for some reason nothing worked, so I put this song aside as I wanted to try it later again.
But this song never left me alone, and I kept trying but for some reason whatever I did with those tracks nothing seem to work or sound alright to me.
Then I suffered from a mid-ear infection for 6 weeks, and couldn’t hear properly what I was doing (which frustrated me even more), I wasn’t able to perform proper productions anymore.
The more I tried the worse the song became, so after my ears started to get better, I took the original song, trying to find out what was going wrong all the time, as I never experienced this before.
I decided that I would listen to it over and over again, and trying to find the proper cover for the release, until it would hit me, I came across 2 pictures 1 as you can see now and 1 of me walking in the hills taken from behind.
Without going into detail, the latest developments and disappointments I had to go through in my life, finally gave this piece a meaning, and it also made me realize the song was ready all along.
I always tried to make music for others, to give comfort and bring positive emotions to them.
But to accomplish that, there’s always this moment that you’re “Numb” or “Speechless”, you’ve got no idea what hit you, first you have to go through that face, and to accept the facts that brought you there, then you can climb up, and find the right road to continue your life.
No matter what, accepting the truth (how hard it can be) is always better then a soaring wound, I tried my hardest to push those feelings away, like there was nothing going on, but it just made things worse.
It’s better to deal with those feelings and get them out in the open, so your inner wound can heal.
When I listen to this song myself, I can hear the Guitars, the Piano and the French Horn expressing all my sorrows and pain, and the Flute and Strings trying to comfort me and pulling me out of this painful thoughts.
It’s OK to be “Speechless” it’s a faze you have to go through, in the long run it will make you stronger.
The open ending I left in this piece (on purpose) is so that everybody can fill in their own story or meaning.
I am grateful to Colin for the 2 tracks he made, unintentionally those were exactly what this piece needed, at least I think so, and who knows I might pick up this song one more time and redo it all over again.
Composer & Arrangements: John Styles
Flute and French Horn: Colin Powell
All other instruments: John Styles
Producer: John Styles
We hope you’ll enjoy this piece, and it will give you some comfort and relaxation to you life too, all your comments and advices are very much appreciated as always, cheers John and Colin
