Radio Angel (Some June)
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise - Giovanni di Paolo 1445 It's always interesting to review the evolution of a piece. This one started on an acoustic guitar using only the working title Silent Satellite. As I was tracking it and doing the synth parts, I came upon a patch titled Radio Angel and it fit perfectly with what I was doing, and is now the final title. Harmonically it's interesting because it uses minor keys a minor third apart (B minor and D minor) and both the relative and parallel modes, so D major and D minor. B major could possibly work as well in a more angular way. "Silent satellite" is still in the lyrics so I thought that was a good solution. As I got deeper into tracking the piece it began to gather more meaning. Very often while I'm in the middle of recording all the other parts, I may stumble on a new acoustic guitar part. I've gotten into the habit of having the "camera" armed and ready to take a ...