Red Eye - GrotiRoti

Thank you! Much appreciated

This guy gets it ^
Thanks for checking out my track!

Appreciate it! I always found the melody to be vaguely ominous as well. Like an intrusive thought during a stream of consciousness. I've never listened to Neu. Do you recommend anything in particular or anything this songs you reminds you of by them?

Thank you! The overall muddled sound is a bit intentional but also just representative of my lack of production abilities. Everything was recorded directly into an interface with no pre amps or anything. I only have audacity to mix with, so to keep everything from sounding too dry I rolled the treble off my guitars and drenched most of the tracks in reverb.

I think it complements the overall vibe well but I feel some stuff could shine and shimmer a little more if I knew what I was doing.

Thank you so much! It actually does have a bit of a narrative to it, or at least a character scope I latched on to as I was arranging it. The instrumentation is very chill but the time signature and pulse feels kind of anxiety inducing to me. So I wanted to capture the feeling of being busy but sort of lost in your own head and detached for better or for worse.

In short, it's about a person going through the grind of catching a late night flight (a red eye), mindlessly going through the motions of boarding said flight, nearly missing it (perhaps intentionally), and finally taking off (or landing) and snapping back to reality to do it all again. That's the ambiguous story the vocal samples tell, anyway.

The guitar at the very beginning and end to me symbolized an alarm clock going off. Representing the repetitive, daily grind. The noodling guitar lines feel like the mind wandering elsewhere and the bass is desperately trying to pull it back to the present.

But you can interpret however you want! That was just what I used myself to make it feel a little more cohesive.

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed

It does have a bit of a bossa bounce to it but in 5/4 instead of 2/4 (I think that's what boss novas are technically in).

I really appreciate it! Feel free to download it and mess around. I always thought some light synths could sound good or sparse vocals here and there. Maybe some spoken word over the "Last call, please proceed urgently" section. I'm open to try whatever.

Thank you so much! I love grooves in 5/4 or 10/8. I count this song in 10 (1234 - 123 - 123). I'm glad you dug it.

Appreciate it. I really like how simple but powerful the bass ended up being on this. Thanks for listening!

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Thanks so much for checking it out!