Our avant-garde production Restless Nights is now available on SoundCloud (see embed above). It employs a shifting key to introduce deliberate instability and unpredictability. The shifting minor (Em7), major (E7) and diminished keys (Edim7) interspersed with fragments of blues scale were intended to convey a hot, sticky, troubled night of fragmented sleep and disturbing dreams. Nights when sleep at first eludes you and then arrives in short waves with brief moments of calm before you repeat the climb towards wakefullness yet again. So you toss and turn, toss and turn, thump the pillow, and then toss and turn again.
The initial drone literally sets the tone for what is to follow with the accompanying piano, synth and flute given a ‘woozy’ slightly unstable flavour intended to suggest a not quite awake, not quite asleep state. Then come the intermittent pizzicato strings and synths contributing their particular abstractions of the pillow thump. The choir then hints that sleep may finally be arriving, but the piano, brass and flute bring back the toss and turn on into the endless night. Restless Nights. The antidote to a good night’s rest 😀
