Songs appear when we least expect them sometimes – and “Alchemy Waits” is a perfect example of that.<\/p>\n
Brian’s always experimenting with different sounds and textures; he’ll often just be tripping with tones when something he’s playing just calls to me. During one of his sound experiments, I started singing to it and it fell into place – although it’s kind of a different<\/em> style for us. It’s got a bit of a “bayou” feel to it, and there’s some very cool guitar tones on the recording.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When we’ve had time in a live set, we’ve played it at a few shows. I’ve been a little surprised how well people really liked it. Sometimes we get billed as a “stadium style rock band,” and I suppose we forget that a tune like this one has a certain vibe to it that is attractive. I’m a sucker for music that has some drama or mystery to it, along with hooks, so I suppose that’s why Alchemy works for me…<\/p>\n It conjures up a feeling of a midnight party in a swampy glade, and a stranger who offers peek into another reality…alchemy waits for us all.<\/p>\n Here’s my favorite part of the lyrics:<\/p>\n “Blessed the darkness I did the final vocal on this song tonight in the home studio (as usual, using the Rode mike); it’s fun to sing because it uses a soft breathy technique in the verses with some fun ad libs, and then blossoms into an almost rockabilly chorus, but more on the rock side. So far I don’t envision any harmonies, but they could happen.<\/p>\n Not sure which song I’ll sing tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Songs appear when we least expect them sometimes – and “Alchemy Waits” is a perfect example of that. Brian’s always experimenting with different sounds and textures; he’ll often just be tripping with tones when something he’s playing just calls to me. During one of his sound experiments, I started singing to it and it fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","category-recording","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRunning away with your soul
\nCoaxing it back just singing that rock and roll
\nCome on out don’t you wanna see?
\nTaste a little bit of that alchemy…”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n