L.U.C.A.
L.U.C.A.
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 4
Listening back, this one has quite a cluttered arrangement (I guess like every other Key 13 track!), but I love the “sound” I managed to get. I’d bought a vocal sample pack for a track called Drinking the Tears of Sleeping Birds a few weeks earlier, so needed to get my money’s worth out of it. Also made use of a free sax+trumpet loops pack from Plugin Boutique.
I didn’t have to tweak the mix much for this version – reduced the vocals a bit and sorted out an overly-enthusiastic hi hat.
The theme is a reference to the fact that all known life on earth shares some portion of DNA, implying there must have been one single amoeba-like ancestor from whom everything descended.
It was written for /r/songaweek – the theme was a chord sequence, ii-V-I, which I cycled round to I-ii-V then completely subverted into my favourite Phrygian mode (spoiler: it isn’t really ii-V-I at all!).
Influences: The Budos Band, Portishead
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
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Lyrics
In the depths of time
Some molecules combined
A single-celled life form
The first of its kind
The last universal common ancestor
Your legacy is all the life on Earth
In a world of chaos
This cell began to thrive
Mutation, selection
Helped it to survive
The last universal common ancestor
Your legacy is all the life on Earth
Over eons of time
It divided and grew
From bacteria to plants and animals
To me and you
The last universal common ancestor
Your legacy is all the life on Earth
