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|      Hear The Colors     |
|  2022 - Hear The Colors  |
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Track#:  Name:                              Notes:                                 Length:
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  1     Tale Of The Phoenix                Working title: "Song #9 Orange-Yellow"     3:50
  
  2     Dance Through Life                 Working title: "Song #1 Yellow-Red"        3:56
  
  3     The Grumpy Wizard                  Working title: "Song #6 Purple-Blue"       4:04
  
  4     A Day                              Working title: "Song #7 Green-Orange"      5:05
  
  5     Spirit Guide                       Working title: "Song #4 Orange-Purple"     2:56
  
  6     Migratory Birds Fly Back Home      Working title: "Song #2 Blue-Green"        5:15
  
  7     Storm Horses                       Working title: "Song #10 Purple-Red"       3:08
  
  8     The Morning Sun                    Working title: "Song #5 Yellow-Blue"       5:31
  
  9     Realm Of Mystery                   Working title: "Song #11 Green-Purple"     4:12
  
  10    Playful Journey                    Working title: "Song #12 Blue-Orange"      2:39
  
  11    The Great Vision                   Working title: "Song #13 Yellow-Green"     6:51
  
  12    Deep Feel Cave                     Working title: "Song #8 Red-Blue"          2:05
  
  13    Rewilding Of The Heart             Working title: "Song #3 Orange-Red"        4:10

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Hear The Colors - Bonus Tracks
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Track#:  Name:                            Notes:                                                   Length:
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  1     Within                           Working title: "Song #14 Purple-Yellow"                      3:04
                                         
                                         There are fifteen combinations of the six colors within
                                         my harmonic system. Very early I knew I don't want to create
                                         album with fifteen songs on it as it felt too much and I
                                         wanted it to be well digestable. So I decided to not include
                                         three most difficult combinations and create only twelve
                                         song album. Later I thought maybe I can try to create songs
                                         for all of them and use the remaining three for live playing
                                         and also bonus songs. I'm glad I did it because all of them
                                         turned out great and one of the three difficult color
                                         combinations was also the Green-Purple "Realm Of Mystery"
                                         which I liked so much I ended up including it on the album.
                                         Thirteen songs still felt as digestable amount and one more
                                         emotionally difficult song like Realm Of Mystery didn't
                                         spoil, but enhanced the flow of the album.

  2     Evening Town Walk                Working title: "Song #15 Red-Green"                          3:50
                                         
                                         This is the final song I wrote for this album and I love it
                                         very much, but still I feel it fits much better here as part
                                         of the collection of three strong original bonus tracks
                                         than it would fit on the main album. However in case you
                                         would like to create full 15 song playlist for yourself
                                         here are my thoughts about the order. After I wrote the story
                                         it feels the best following Rewilding Of The Heart like it
                                         naturally does when you play the bonus tracks afterwards.
                                         However before I even knew I would write the story I was
                                         thinking where it would potentially fit in the tracklist.
                                         Back at that time I would put the previous track Within in
                                         the middle of the album between Storm Horses and The Morning
                                         Sun and either keep Evening Town Walk after Within as they
                                         both lead nicely into The Morning Sun or maybe alternatively
                                         even put Evening Town Walk between Tale Of The Phoenix and
                                         Dance Through Life for its tense, but upbeat and energetic
                                         first half.

  3     By Empty Room                    This is a song originally from my first guitar album         4:12
                                         "Soul Scenery" recorded back in year 2010. One of
                                         interesting aspects about this album is the fact that it
                                         consists completely only from multilayered electric guitar.
                                         Despite this huge limitation there are many interesting songs
                                         on it and this is one of the most interesting ones.
                                         The new arrangement and acoustic treatment served it very
                                         well and finally realised the full potential of the song.

  4     The Great Vision                 One of the final fine-tuning additions for this song were    2:35
        (Main Theme Remix)               the mellow atmospheric pads beneath the main theme when it
                                         returns at the end. When I listened to the pads in isolation
                                         with only drums beneath them this inspiration to do remix
                                         of the main theme that gradually builds on top of this
                                         energetic pumping drum beat hit me hard and that was how the
                                         idea was born. I really like the result.

  5     Dance Through Life               I was very inspired and enthusiastic when I started          2:54
        (First Day Version)              working on the album on May 4th 2020 so at that first
                                         day I worked all day and night until sun came up and wrote
                                         and recorded this early version of the first song.

  6     Migratory Birds Fly Back Home    For the second song I composed I felt it would be good idea  3:27
        (Demo With Unused Intro)         to use the experimental improvisation with gong and indian
                                         flute I recorded on August 27th 2017. For final version
                                         I left out the flute and kept only the gong as the flute was
                                         not fitting the atmosphere of the song well enough.

  7     The Morning Sun                  The final chorus of this song has many layers of melody      1:40
        (Minimalistic Finale)            and rhythm that together create this grand finale, but
                                         natural consequence of many layers is that their individual
                                         beauty gets buried in the mix. So I created this minimalistic
                                         version of the finale with isolated glockenspiel from the
                                         middle section of the song now used as intro to this version
                                         as it also have something very pure and nice in it.

  8     Spirit Guide (Without Guitar)    This song was first song I wrote with more unusual           2:56
                                         combination of colors so I didn't expected ordinary song
                                         from it. I wanted to keep it short and take more experimental
                                         approach with it. I ended up loving the final result and
                                         therefore I include this version without guitar here as it
                                         stands on its own nicely with only these weird sounds and
                                         keyboards as an interesting alternative version.

  9     Rewilding Of The Heart           This is a very special song to me that still resonates       3:30
        (Early Version)                  on emotional level very deeply even after thousands of
                                         listens. In this early version in progress I fully realized
                                         its potential, especially of the finale and I knew immediately
                                         it's going to be the closer of the album. There is something
                                         magnetic about the finale that I can't stop listening to
                                         again and again sometimes even for hour straight and it began
                                         with this version already so that's why I put it here even
                                         though the middle section is just bare guitar idea.

  10    Deep Feel Cave                   Another song with unusual combination of colors that         9:30
        (Even Deeper)                    surprised me how beautiful it ended up sounding. After it
                                         ends I wanted it to be longer, but I also felt that making
                                         it longer would take away from its magic. However I also
                                         realized that it feels very natural to listen to on repeat
                                         so at first I created "Relax Loop" version with alternating
                                         parts with guitar and without guitar and an extended ending
                                         to make it more interesting. However after few months
                                         I clearly felt that I loose interest to continue listening
                                         after the first four minutes and then came the idea to record
                                         an improvised solo over the second repeat of guitarless part.
                                         After that I realised how bueatiful some of these
                                         improvisations sound even with the original guitar as
                                         background, so for the final repeat it is a combination of
                                         improvisation, composed solo and original guitar as well.
                                         As the "Relax Loop" subtitle didn't fit anymore I renamed
                                         it to "Deep Feel Cave (Even Deeper)" as it unleashes the
                                         full potential of the song. Even though it wouldn't fit
                                         on the main album, I think it is a perfect closer to the
                                         "Bonus Tracks" second side of it. Enjoy! :)
										 

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All music was composed and recorded by Miro Šimek
Artwork and creative inspiration by Megi Šimeková
