This song is on the Collateral soundtrack, which a fantastic movie with some good songs in it, yet this one has always stood out to me.
The way that this song starts out, is very different. It has a high pitched note undulating to various pitches, going back and forth across the two channels, but underneath, we start to hear a organ beginning to pick up the melody a little bit, and as the pitch distorts, a bass comes on, accompanying the organ with a nice drum beat starting up for us.
As the first verse goes in, the beat doesn't really change, as the focus is mainly on the singer itself, but then we go into the chorus. The chorus sees the addition of an electric guitar in the left channel, emphasizing the chorus more with a little bit of improvisation. Then a little bit of...scat, if you call it happens after the chorus, leading into a repeat of the first verse.
The difference in this is he throws a little bit improv into it than otherwise noted before, but then we are right back into the chorus, with a slight change in the lyrics to 'seems to me, yesterday was left behind.' Then the guitar is distorted even more, giving us a synthetic sound as the guitar is warped. After this, there is an addition of female back up singers, singing the same phrases over and over again, leading us into the outro, with the drums dropping out and the song slowly starting to fade down to nothing.
The format of this song is AABABA, which I have gathered to be a very common form among the music industry because it works. But the real focus of this song is the hypnotic effect that it instills on the listener. It is the repeated drum line and the man's soothing voice that lulls us into a trance of just simply not moving, and the synthesizing effect makes us feel as if we are floating in water. Overall, I just love this piece to listen to and relax after a long day.
This is new to me. Thanks.
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