#atlas.audio

I don't know what gave me such an intense urge to cover this song, but here we are

Unfortunately because I can’t allow myself to do things by halves I went with a full cover – instrumentals, vocals, all of it. It was very relaxing actually (discounting the vocals, that is). I swear I didn’t mean for it to turn out this different to the original but I was possessed by the melody monster and only woke up five hours later with the entire instrumental in my lap and half of Eleanor’s vocals done. After I’d recovered my capacity for conscious thought I decided I’d just let it be. Whoops.

I meant to have this done like a week ago but my internship started and I couldn’t finish mixing or mastering until today so yeah. I’d also planned to post this to YouTube somehow but honestly I don't know how to make videos or wrangle YouTube/my computer well enough, so I decided it was just too much work. I’ve only ever posted music here anyway, though I rarely ever do, regardless.

I keep finding myself writing religion-adjacent songs despite not being religious at all. I think I just like the aesthetic, and Dante’s Paradiso, because that’s what this song is about and you bet I’m writing songs for Inferno and Purgatorio too (eventually).

Solaria’s violently American voicebank hurt my soul. I gave up. I thought I could wrangle at least a rolled r but nooooo, not even an ê for me. I wanted her to sing Beatrice’s name like it’s pronounced in the original Italian, and have her pronounce Ave Maria like in Latin, but I guess I put too much faith in her /:

I shoved four verses into the time of two by putting them over each other because the song was getting long and I didn’t want to add another random section. It turned out kind of weird but I don’t know how else I would have structured them. There was too much stuff I wanted to say lmao

I have at least two lines dedicated to each layer of heaven but it goes more into detail after Jupiter because that’s when stuff actually starts happening beyond “Dante asks questions to whoever’s on this celestial body and then they move on.” I also made the opening longer because I underestimated how much space I would have. I write linearly so the lyrics are written at the same time as the music, and it’s very clear how I had absolutely no plan lmfao

I am incapable of writing anything above 115 bpm, apparently.

I think I'm gonna start posting my music here