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ANALOG DAYS E​.​P.

by Ahráyeph

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1.
ONCE 03:34
SHE SAID : ‘WOULD YOU TALK TO ME ONCE MORE THE WAY WE ALWAYS TALKED BEFORE? CAUSE I WONDER HOW YOU ARE WON’T YOU TELL ME THE STORY SO FAR?’ ‘THOUGH I’M AFRAID OF WHAT YOU’D SAY I WANT TO HEAR YOU ANYWAY DON’T LET THIS NIGHT WASTE AWAY WON’T YOU SPEAK TO ME ONCE MORE THE WAY YOU ALWAYS TALKED BEFORE ?’ BUT I’M NOT RID OF ALL HER GHOSTS AND HER DESIRE TO IGNORE WHAT LEAD US HERE KEEPS THE WOUNDS UNHEALED WHEN ONCE SHE WAS ONCE SHE WAS AND ONCE SHE WAS THE VISION COME ALIVE BUT ONCE SHE WAS ONCE SHE WAS BUT ONCE SHE WAS THE KNIFE THROUGH MY HEART WHAT IS TRUST BUT TO BE SHAMED THERE’S NO CONNECTION, ANYWAY CARELESSLY, THROWN AWAY THERE’S HONESTY IN PERFIDY THE POETRY OF IRONY THE ABYSS STARING BACK AT ME AGAIN WHEN ONCE SHE WAS ONCE SHE WAS AND ONCE SHE WAS THE VISION COME ALIVE BUT ONCE SHE WAS ONCE SHE WAS BUT ONCE SHE WAS THE KNIFE THROUGH MY HEART ONCE WE WERE ONCE WE WERE BUT FOR THE LIES WHERE ARE WE NOW? WHERE ARE WE NOW? WERE ARE WE GOING FROM HERE?
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EXPECTATIONS 06:19
WAITING FOR THIS STORY TO END WITHOUT YOU, OR SOMEONE ELSE TELL ME, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME UNDONE NOW UNTIL FOREVER I’LL BE GONE AND-SHE-IS-NONE IN HERE I AM NONE FLEETING, EVER FLEETING I AM THE GHOST IN YOUR MIND WAITING, EVER WAITING AND IN THE END, ALWAYS LEFT BEHIND THESE UNREAL EXPECTATIONS WEAR YOU DOWN BACK DOWN TO ARID GROUND LOSING WHAT YOU NEVER FOUND THESE EXPECTATIONS TEAR YOU DOWN SAFE, UNSOUND IN YOUR ILLUSIONS REVERT INTO YOUR SELF, LEAVE BEHIND THIS SOCIAL HELL CAUSE THESE EXPECTATIONS TEAR YOU DOWN AND ALL THINGS MUST PASS BY ONCE MORE PARALLEL TO WHAT ONCE WAS BEFORE FOR YOU TO SUFFER FOR YOU TO SUFFER SUFFER SUFFER SUFFER BECAUSE THESE EXPECTATIONS TEAR YOU DOWN SAFE, UNSOUND IN YOUR ILLUSIONS REVERT INTO YOUR SELF, SHRUG OFF THIS SOCIAL HELL CAUSE THESE EXPECTATIONS TEAR YOU DOWN THESE EXPECTATIONS TEAR YOU DOWN THROW YOUR LIFE INTO CONFUSION CHOOSE TO TURN AND WALK AWAY, ENTANGLEMENTS JUST LEAD ASTRAY CAUSE THESE EXPECTATIONS TEAR YOU DOWN DOWN FOREVER DOWN DOWN FOREVER DOWN
3.
ANALOG DAYS 06:03
ANALOG DAYS DO YOU REMEMBER? THE ORANGE WARMTH OF CATHODE RAYS THAT GOLDEN SUN OF THE ANALOG DAYS? WHEN WE STILL GOT HIGH DARED TO FLY WHEN YOU MADE YOUR WOMAN CRY? NOW COLD-CONNECTED IN THE DIGITAL MAZE ONCE REMOVED IN ANOTHER HAZE BUT DO YOU STILL REMEMBER THOSE ANALOG DAYS? OUT OF ZONE, OUT OF REACH CONJURING UNCONSCIOUS FEASTS, WHAT’S LEFT OF YOU? LEFT OF ME? ACID FRIDAYS , OUR ESCAPE HIDING LIKE A RUNAWAY UNELEGANTLY WASTING AWAY WHO LED WHOM ASTRAY? IN OUR ANALOG DAYS? THOSE BONE NOVEMBER DAYS WHEN STILL A WARMTH HELD SWAY THE CATHODE GLOW, THE FM RAYS THE STONED, IMMACULATE HAZE OF THE ANALOG DAYS THE ANALOG DAYS THE ANALOG DAYS THE ANALOG DAYS

about

With the move to my new place - which finally seems to get into gear somewhat, albeit very slowly - taking longer than expected (I won't bother you with the - very - sordid details, which involves a court case), I felt it was just getting too long a wait before I could start recording new music in what will become my new studio (even if I may hang onto the 'Rose Creek' name; there *is* a creek in the back behind the garden, after all). So, with more time on my hands than I actually wanted to have, I decided to put that time to good use and record three new songs, which became this new release, the 'Analog Days' E.P.

It was a real joy to record again and I'm really happy with the end result. I hope you'll like it as much as I do.

As I always try to achieve, there's a lot of diversity between the songs. 'Once' is a short and swift unapologetic gothic rocker. I don't often to short, but here, it just works
'Expectations' experiments a lot with the bass and drums, which lie at the origin of how this song came to pass, but it also never relents in its own way.
'Analog Days', the title track, is a song I've been chewing on for years. That is to say, I had the lyrics for years, and I had an idea of how the song should sound and what tempo it should be in, but I just could never find the right melody. Until I was experimenting with clean, double delay guitar sounds and out came these two riffs, which spawned a bass part, which spawned the drum parts, all of which spawned a synth part, almost effortlessly and all at once, 'Analog Days' was finally born. I always knew that once it came into existence, it should be the title track of its own E.P.

So here it is : 'Analog Days' in all its glory. I hope you'll like it as much as I do!

R.

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released June 28, 2023

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ahrayeph @ The Green Room, Rose Creek Audiovisual, May - June 2023

All lyrics and music by Ahrayeph

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Ahráyeph Leuven

Prog, Goth, Rock, something music-y. Definitely dark. Dark is good. If you like dark music with the odd odd time signatures thrown in with the melancholy, this is your place to be.

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