Hic et Nunc
Hic et Nunc
Serialising the album Pretentious Incongruity by Key 13 (@keefmarshall)
Pretentious Incongruity: 2020-2024 is a retrospective compilation looking back at some key milestones in the first five years of Key 13 as a recording identity.
Track 6
My cheerful little ditty about the dangers of ignoring climate change.
Another one that I really like but I suspect not many others do. Particularly the ending here gets me every time – that last stanza feels like one of the best things I’ve written. The tribal drums throughout the first part have never been quite right for the track though, and I’ve reduced the volume in this mix to try to fix that a bit – I think this is the best version of this so far. Yes, the bass is meant to be that loud, Deal with it.
The title is so pretentious it hurts – Latin for “Here and Now” which features in the lyrics. The choir plugin (Aurora, also used in Tick Tock) was the only one I had at the time (I got it very cheap in a sale – the full price is astronomical!). While it’s really expressive, it can only chant fragments of Latin words that make up the first verse of Dies Irae, for reasons best known to the creators. So I recombined them to sing vid irae solis favilla which, very loosely, means something like “Watching the ashes of the Sun’s wrath”.
Don’t tell me it’s not valid Latin – I could only work with the fragments I had!
Influences: Tears For Fears, Peter Gabriel. Maybe even Phil Collins with those gated reverb drums at the end.
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
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Lyrics
The great divide
Designed to tear us apart
The culture war
Blinds us with righteous anger
The age of wrath
is here and now
Open your eyes
The signs are all around us
Ignore their lies
Apocalypse is nigh
Ashes of Earth
Just dust under the Sun
And still there’s nothing
Said or done
Apocalypse is nigh
