Autumn Lamentation

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I love early autumn with its brigth colours and brisk sunny days, but when
the leaves turn brown and the rains begin - well, I just can't stand it.
Watching the life be slowly drained out of everything always brings me
down way too heavily, and what's worse, the depression seems to strike me
earlier and more painfully each year. There's supposed to be more light
than in the winter, but it's not real, decent light - the disgustingly
thick and grey cloud layer absorbs all the light out of the sun's rays,
leaving nothing but a gloomy non-light, a mere absence of darkness. Once
the autumn depression gets a hold of me, my consumption of sugar and
alcohol goes soaring up, and there's no hope of getting anything done
until first snow.

The worst thing about autumn depression is that there's no cure: red wine,
chocolate and sad music can take away the symptoms for a while, but if you
want to get rid of the disease, there's nothing you can do, save pray for
an early winter. For whereas autumn is death, winter is protection; it
casts its pure white veil over the land to shelter it from the piercing
cold and to help it survive till the warm spring sun signals the beginning
of a new cycle of birth and growth. Though it's cold and dark, there's
hope of another spring and summer in every glistening snow-clad tree and
every star in the clear night sky.

(OK, OK! I promise I'll skip the poetry next time!)

With warmth and friendship to Anna the autumn-lover - I don't even pretend
to understand how you manage to actually like that horrid season, but I
sure as heck wish I could learn it too...

It actually still requires a fair deal of work before I dare actually
release it, but I decided to enter it "as is" into the multichannel compo
at Elevator 3. Keep an eye on artists.traxinspace.com/Rondo for the final
version.

Started 21.12.1999
Finished 21.1.2000
Rondo/Hubris&Tempo
ltuovine@rieska.oulu.fi

Instruments

Acoustic guitar
Strings (very soft)
Acoustic bass
Strings (sharp)
Flute
Grand piano
Electric guitar
Strings (pizzicato)
Percussions and effects
Synth (warm, brassy)

Samples

Acoustic guitar
Strings (very soft)
Acoustic bass
Strings (sharp, c2)
Strings (sharp, c3)
Flute
Grand piano (c)
Grand piano (c1)
Grand piano (c2)
Electric guitar (c2)
Strings (pizzicato)
Rain
Thunder
Synth (warm, brassy)
Timpani
Gong

Thanks to Mr. Hussam
Eassa for the piano
samples. All other
samples by yours truly.

Sorry about the horrible
size - there's really no
excuse for it, but 1.5
megs was allowed in the
compo rules...