The Space Between the Sea and the Sky
The Space Between the Sea and the Sky
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 5
Another candidate for best Key 13 track? Listening to this collection together, there’s clearly some lingering influence from Furloughed, but I think this one is much better put together. When creating this I deliberately set myself two goals:
- don’t use any chords on the same instrument (single notes only, or octaves) and
- don’t consciously follow any specific scale or pattern when putting the note sequences together.
The result is a somewhat random sequence of notes, on top of which I added bass and suspended arpeggios to help give it structure. The guitar-like bass patch is one I used a while before, on Invertebration (that later became As the Sun Sets Over the Water). I used Izotope’s Vinyl plugin to give the lead electric piano a slightly warbling tone, plus an erratic delay preset.
I already remastered this for the Sea · Sky · Clouds EP but I now hate that mastering, far too bright and too loud, so this one went back to the original mix. I tweaked a little bit, not much, but had to comp several renders of the bubbling synth instrument to get it to sound close to the original.
Influences: Boards of Canada is where I was aiming – didn’t get close, but there you go.
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
