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響​が​聞​こ​え​る : Pacific Echoes

from 来日 by Pierce Murphy

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This part of the journey was pretty melancholy. So sweet to have experienced what I was able to, so bitter to be left with what to do after it all. I fell in love with Japan. But I was coming home to let myself fall in love with a woman who meant and means the absolute world to me. All in all, this is an album about recognizing that I needed to delve headlong into loving her, no matter what that looked like or how hard it would be. This song is the climax of that realization.

It's long, drawn out progression in the beginning, not fast but somehow anxious, still reminds me of wet streets in Shibuya and Ebisu. The very last night there was so dark and lonely.

My cousin, Drake Neimczura, is the voice speaking in Japanese in the introduction. He also wrote and sang the Japanese translation of the English lyrics heard later in the song. The opening translates roughly to:

Seeing the road ahead makes me think of the storm,
Shrouded in reflection, I feel it in solitude.

The song uses a rough sort of sonata form, drawing from all the album's other songs themes instead of the ones presented in the verses and chorus. It goes through a kind of development section where all the other songs' melodies come flooding back in new modalities, represented by their unique musical elements, including the instruments featured in each (sax, electric guitar, violin and cello). After each memory visits, the original melody returns, but the modality has shifted from minor to major, as the beauty of the experience overtakes the loneliness and uncertainty. All the instruments from the past songs also join in a final outpouring of joy and gratitude. The song ends on a big Amaj13 chord, and five cymbal hits can be heard for the five places that made up the experience. It ends on the same drone that the album started on.

You can't say I didn't think this one through, I guess.

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from 来日, released September 15, 2018

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Pierce Murphy Denver, Colorado

I'm a guitarist/vocalist from Denver, CO. I like jazz and I like to groove and I like to stick it to the man.

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