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Ráfandi í næturmyrkrinu (Wandering in the Darkness of Night) by Einarus [Email]

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Last Played: Jul 15, 2008 - 03:47:10 PM
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Uploaded: Jul 02, 2006 - 11:56:30 AM
Last Updated: Sep 25, 2006 - 05:35:34 PM
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Dark (305), Fog (6), Einarus (10), paper route (1), creepy (26), eerie (12), slibble-whop (1)
Description:
Wrote the poem over a year ago and it's really just about how unreal it felt to be forced to wake up at ungodly hours on a saturday to do my paper route.
A couple of days ago I decided to do another spoken word track - but a little bit darker and eerier than my previous one.
Hope that shines through.

©2006 - Einar Sverrir Tryggvason

Lyrics:
Á hverjum laugardegi vakna ég upp í öðrum heimi.
Myrkum, köldum og hljóðum heimi.
Köld, litlaus, rám rödd býður mig velkominn til starfa.
Ég er sendiboði.

Fætur eru óþarfir hérna.
Það er svifið eftir götunum.

Þar býr ekkert fólk en samt er fullt af húsum.
Ég svíf upp að húsunum og kíki inn um bréfalúgur í leit að lífi.
Ekkert lifir nema myrkrið og skrjáfið í pappírnum.

Eftir hverja árangurlausa leitina á eftir annarri sný ég til baka.
Gatan er líklega köld en ég get ekki sagt til um það.
Röddin kveður mig og ég fer heim.

Heim í hlýjan dúninn.

Which roughly translates to:

Every saturday I wake up in another world.
A dark, cold, silent world.
A chilled, gray and raspy voice welcomes me.
I'm a messenger.

Feet are useless here.
You float above the streets.

Nobody lives here, but yet there are houses everywhere.
I hover up to the houses and look through the mail slots in search of life.
Nothing lives but the darkness and the sound of the paper.

After one failed search after another I return.
The street is probably cold, but I'm unable to tell.
The voice says goodbye and I go home.

Home to the warm down.

Hardware:
iMac G5
MK-149 Evolution Keyboard
ZOOM RhythmTrak RT-323.
M-Audio FireWire Solo Recording Interface
MXL 2006 Microphone

Software:
Logic Pro
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goose-flesh &mdash 07/02/06 - 12:34:31 PM
This song takes me with you.
I can see the things in front of me...
goose-flesh

well done song

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Dark... &mdash 07/02/06 - 12:57:18 PM
... refreshingly so. The poem turns things on their side just enough to be
tantalizing - and hearing Icelandic is always cool. ;) Your voice sounds
really REALLY good with your new microphone.
Everything blends so well - from the words to the effects to that neat-o
bass.

One to listen to on my predawn walks. :)

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evocative and powerful &mdash 07/02/06 - 01:23:59 PM
You continue to suprise me. The music merges effortlessly with the voice. The choice of instruments and rhythm are flawless and create a very successful backdrop for the recitation. Sounds much easier than it is, but you are really good at that! I could have listened to this for much longer! The lyrics are quite fascinating, The lyrics are evocative and powerful, that sense of going about a routing semi-consciously when you're the only soul awake. Eerie, yes, but also with a sense of peace. Very interesting stuff, Ein! Thanks for sharing.

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eerie mood &mdash 07/02/06 - 03:54:31 PM
Einar - you sure have a way with words! Not the meaning, because I
don't have a clue what you're saying, but in terms of setting an eerie
mood, there's not much that compares. I still find Icelandic strangely
familiar. On the nit side, it's too short - could have easilly taken
another few minutes of maybe just instrumental.
This is very cool Einar.
Neil

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The word is a sound. &mdash 07/03/06 - 06:39:35 AM
Einar,
Your word is a voice, and the music scale.
A beautiful sound is like the aurora.

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Stunning &mdash 07/03/06 - 10:19:11 AM
Love the Spoken part. You have a great voice. The music was dark and
appropiate. very well balanced.

Ed

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You took me back &mdash 07/03/06 - 01:35:36 PM
It was a dark cold and silent world, but it was also, scary - When I lived in Los Angeles., I rode the back of my uncle's bike as we blasted through the streets of L.A. at 5: and 6:a.m delivering the LA times - Oh my god, I was scarred shitless, but I do recall that silent dead world that you have depicted here so well, E. Before I forget again, I have to mention how deeply rich your voice is - It kinda rattles my soul on this particular piece - It didn't matter the language, I was immediately there, and purely by cadence and vocal inflections. You had just enough of what was needed in accompaniment, but I do have to register my personal complaint on this one - I felt like it was just a little bit too short - It was a long and hellish bike ride for me, mind you. And I can recall that it seemed like a few life times had passed by for while experiencing this seeming, life threatening moment - I Always feared that we were gonna crash a near-death bang-up, but was gonna be there to find us... However as I'm spewing my story, I'm realizing that that was my experience and not yours, so the length of this piece is just fine - Thanks for the travels, E - Dion

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Simple yet Provocative &mdash 07/03/06 - 02:36:09 PM
Sounds like one of those Hugo Boss advertisements :D

I like it!

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... &mdash 07/03/06 - 04:25:23 PM
Love the Spoken poetry. The music was dark and
lovely at the same time. LOove the piano. I don't understand a word but I read the translation..:) Great work

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I feel the cold &mdash 07/04/06 - 01:03:24 PM
and I feel the loneliness. A very neat soundscape. And what a beatiful language (I do recognise a bit of Flemish in it - my mother tongue). Took me far from here for two minutes - which by the way was very welcome with more than 30C right now (haha). Very very well done Einar.

Walter

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if walking a damn paper route &mdash 07/04/06 - 07:18:10 PM
can inspire THIS, well watch out when yer heart gets broken by some
cold hearted but lovely woman....!! we will have symphonies!!

this is very cool...and way too short.


i really get a kick out of you Einar....hehehe remarkable!

deep bow partner!

z

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if walking a damn paper route &mdash 07/08/06 - 11:49:18 AM
Haha! That was an inspired comment!

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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/22306">Nitrous</a>

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wow!! you sound amazing.... &mdash 07/05/06 - 01:25:52 AM
einar - you have really done soo well with the voice thing and the spooky sounds in the background work very well too - it was neither pink nor fluffy but... it ended too soon - lovely to see your work continuing to develop in such interesting ways - xoxo

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Nice to write about something you know so well &mdash 07/05/06 - 11:19:11 PM
and put it in a different language, put interested music it and make it your
own.

Whay to go E!

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air &mdash 07/06/06 - 12:04:21 PM
great sense of air in this track....your speaking voice comes across so
great....like the reverb that you used and everything fits well
together....very well organized and executed....like the piano sounds a lot
as well....peace....Ian

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perfect mood swift! &mdash 07/07/06 - 10:07:04 AM
the language is very rhythmic and satisfying itself!
and i like the accompaning sounds that enhances the entire mood
throughout with the speech!!

thanks for sharing good work !

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I used to find my paper round surreal as well... &mdash 07/07/06 - 05:04:26 PM
...but that's largely because I always have hated getting up early and so it
was an unfamiliar time of day. It's great that you can take something
quite mundane and turn it into such emotionally charged poetry. You've
done a great job with the accompaniment as well - there's a great sense
of depth.

KK


PS - did you used to deliver papers on Elm Street?

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mood &mdash 07/07/06 - 07:13:33 PM
great mood

i can feel this, since once long ago ago i delivered magazines, and i knew,
more and more each day, that no one cared.

this is very eery and compelling - i like the unconnectedness. modren life
has made the world this way...


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mood &mdash 07/07/06 - 07:14:14 PM
great mood

i can feel this, since once long ago ago i delivered magazines, and i knew,
more and more each day, that no one cared.

this is very eery and compelling - i like the unconnectedness. modren life
has made the world this way...


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Ominous &mdash 07/07/06 - 07:19:08 PM
This was quite different. Love the lyrics to it. It reminds me of waking up while it was still dark to go to school when I was in high school. The intro with the heart was awsome, and then your voice with the echo and reverb created just the right atmosphere.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!

B.

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Chills &mdash 07/08/06 - 10:40:29 AM
this song is very chilling. I would like to also hear this done in English.
The German is quite refreshing. I'm assuming it's German. Nice job and
thanks for sharing.

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Chills &mdash 07/08/06 - 11:11:57 AM
This isn't German, actually - it's Icelandic :)
German is a bit more 'vulgar', as it were - especially the 'r' sounds.
Anyway - thanks for listening!

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-Einarus<br/>
<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/22230">Ráfandi í næturmyrkrinu (Wandering in the Darkness of Night)</a> is up!

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Yeeeeah &mdash 07/08/06 - 11:55:16 AM
There's so much right about this. First of all, you have a nice voice, and Icelandic is so completely foreign to me that it's just intriguing to listen to. The mood is very compelling, enhanced by the heartbeat, and the fog-deadened drumbeat, plus the long eerie tones that waver through the air. Awesome!

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kaldur og hressandi &mdash 07/09/06 - 07:45:46 AM
inn spoken or rekja spor einhvers er mjg kaldur hljmandi

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Lead the way &mdash 08/01/06 - 07:08:21 PM
This is super cool! I am DIGGING this! I love the instrumentation!

Of course, hearing the lyrics in... what is it? Icelandic? Very cool for me,
since I can't understand a word! Ha! But, what a great voice! Yummy!

It takes me on a journey, and I don't know where I'm headed, but I'll go
freely!

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'spooky' &mdash 01/21/07 - 09:34:12 AM
This has a chilling spooky sound; like the early morning when all is still. Very enjoyable listening pleasure.

. - Harold

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