SONG: All Our Tomorrows
SONG: “All Our Tomorrows” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “DNA Retrieved from 1,000-Year-Old Vikings”, LiveScience.com, 28 May 2008, as used in the post Viking DNA .
ABSTRACT: Well, I kinda knew I’d go for the Viking story this month because it’s Vikings. I thought this might wind up as a shanty about raiding villages to sell fish, but that would probably be too dorky. So I wrote a song about cloning a Viking maiden to love and squeeze and marry and I will call her Brunhilde and we will be together forever….
When in doubt, I always seem to go creepy. I was really trying for sweet (honest!) and the bit where it goes from that low note on “base” up to the high in “tomorrows” was directly inspired by the vastly more talented vocals of Glen Hansard. Maybe I can clone him, too, and make him sing in my place.
If there’s any doubt about what all the letters at the end of the song are about, they’re the standard abbreviations for the four bases that make up DNA (thus the source of the name of the movie Gattaca). I spent a lot more time writing than recording on this, but did discover one thing I quite liked – I used Reaper’s MIDI stuff for the first time, along with a pretty great mellotron VST plug-in called Tapeworm from Tweakbench. Free to download and very easy to plug in and use even for a MIDI incompetent like me. And it sounds pretty much like a mellotron.
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