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Owls And Vultures

from Midnight Door by Luke Janela

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I got really deep into manipulating sound for this one, the voice is manipulated creepily with three octaves of the melody, and the eerie keys sit over everything.

I suppose the song could easily be called The Quietest Quiet, it's about finding solace. I wrote it after a big loss in my life, way back before the road trip started and I was living in Mendocino, CA. We had those owls and vultures, and hawks and ravens and the occasional eagle flying overhead often, seeking prey and whatever else.

The opening wolves were recorded while camping in Yellowstone National Park in the snow. There weren't that many people camping that time of year, and honestly as the wolves got closer and closer during the night it was disconcerting.

At the end I included a snippet of one of the many dozens of songs quickly sketched out on the trip. I though this improvised lyric was worth including in the album: "Blackbird sits on the page and stays aloft. It's shadow dances away and cuts through the knot".

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Wings are intact, try and deny it.
Dreams of museums, finding flight.
Twilight vultures ride the heights, trying to find the quietest quiet.

Their talons hold the sunset in mid-air,
no-one here is going anywhere.
The clocks will stop, and the waves will cease,
I will be awake for this minute at least
and you won't be gone, you will still be there.

Sky was black, stars were white,
waiting for you all night.
Midnight owls avoid the light
trying to hear the quietest quiet.

Who am I to tell you you should care
that the seeds you planted are growing everywhere?
Feeling lost? Seeking peace?
Follow the markers in your dreams, they won't be gone, they will still be there.

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from Midnight Door, released July 7, 2007

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Luke Janela Los Angeles, California

Luke Janela has been writing and recording music for many moons. He is a classically trained cellist, guitarist and singer. He has fronted 15 albums. All bare a distinct character and tend to defy simple classification.

His music is urgent and innovative, moving from fol to punk to classical to electronic as a cohesive, contemporary whole ... more

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