SILA

Gothic ballad; intimate deep male baritone, half-spoken in the verses and rising to a mournful cry, with a wailing Balkan-style choir in the choruses; sparse minor-key piano, low strings, distant accordion and violin, distorted electric guitar leading with long bends and feedback cries; slow 60 BPM, solemn and western-desolate, building to a slow, huge chorus; raw amplifier hiss, cavernous reverb, long feedback trails

[Intro: slow lonely piano chords, one distorted feedback guitar note hanging in reverb, distant wind] [Verse 1: deep gothic male baritone, low, half-spoken, intimate] u-tu e-a, ki sig-ga sila-mu nu-tuku, ku-mu nu-tuku ezen ki-a, ezen an-a lu-lu gen-gen — ge-me gub [Chorus: the voice rises, a wailing gypsy-style choir joins, piano and strings swell] SILA… SILA… ama-mu, sila u-tu e-a — ge nu-e SILA… SILA… [Verse 2: baritone, a little louder, accordion and violin far behind, feedback guitar answering each line] i … ama-mu, sila u-tu e-a — ge nu-e SILA… SILA… [Verse 2: baritone, a little louder, accordion and violin far behind, feedback guitar answering each line] i[Outro] [Short instrumental: 5 seconds, drone only, no guitar, no vocals, quick fade to silence] [End]

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