03. White Cyclosa (3:13)

FernieCanto · Post by **FernieCanto** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:08 pm

Lens Larque wrote:It's the track from the opening credits. But I don't know the composer or the title.

The music is credited to Patrick Leonard, but that piece if music is definitely an arrangement of Madonna's Live to Tell.

Lens Larque · Post by **Lens Larque** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:50 pm

I have a tale to tell
Sometimes it gets so hard to hide it well
I was not ready for the fall
Too blind to see the writing on the wall

Perhaps this should be in Telepath's thread but these lyrics from Live to Tell might be some meta-joke about the album's theme, and that fellow in Telepath trying to extract concealed information from a human brain.

The truth is never far behind
You kept it hidden well
If I live to tell
The secret I knew then
Will I ever have the chance again

Something is concealed here. But it is not why Madonna's track belongs in the movie, because Sean Penn is in the movie.

Radio Kadugli · Post by **Radio Kadugli** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:01 pm

FernieCanto wrote:
Lens Larque wrote:It's the track from the opening credits. But I don't know the composer or the title.
The music is credited to Patrick Leonard, but that piece if music is definitely an arrangement of Madonna's Live to Tell.

It was originally written by Leonard for the movie, which was then incorporated for the Madonna song for the soundtrack. On this instrumental version here, you can hear that the open chords are so much like Telepath it's not even funny:

Or maybe it is funny. Anyways, I suppose this should be in the Telepath thread.

Edit: written for another movie, but later put in At Close Range.

purgruv · Post by **purgruv** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:12 pm

miklatov wrote:
mc10101 wrote:
triangle folds wrote:Day of the Dead (1985) Soundtrack - The Dead Suite

Soooooooo THIS!!!
Indeed! When I first heard the track, I had a nagging feeling that I'd heard it before. Then when the 'tune' came in, it hit me - Day of the Dead!

Then a little while later you have a chunk of samples used in Gorillaz' M1 A1 - "Hello!" Is there anybody there?"

mucephei · Post by **mucephei** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:32 pm

Yes I hear the helicopters in this too...specifically the whine of the turboshafts which puts an image in my head of the black helicopters on the ground ready to take off. The link to the FEMA camp conspiracy theory is a sound one though I imagine military manoeuvres - the National Guard advancing towards the zombie apocalypse threat, for example.

It sounds like a lot of helicopters (and I hear them a lot around these parts)

Goiter Sanchez · Post by **Goiter Sanchez** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:52 am

I was listening to TH yesterday on a train ride through Southern California... The mixture of arid imagery and farmland seemed very apt for the sounds.

When White Cyclosa came on we were passing a cattle farm. The effect of the track made the cows seem somewhat sinister to me, like they were hiding their true identities.

I recommend that everyone listen to White Cyclosa while moving quickly past a cattle farm!

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:12 am

Love this track so much !!!

paul · Post by **paul** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:37 pm

Goiter Sanchez wrote:I was listening to TH yesterday on a train ride through Southern California... The mixture of arid imagery and farmland seemed very apt for the sounds.

When White Cyclosa came on we were passing a cattle farm. The effect of the track made the cows seem somewhat sinister to me, like they were hiding their true identities.

I recommend that everyone listen to White Cyclosa while moving quickly past a cattle farm!

you are close ... i promise you it is not the cattle who are sinister.
i might suggest to see a cattle farm anywhere in 2013 is what is truly sinister.
but then again, nothing is real ... i hope so for their sake.

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:37 pm

years ago i was listening to geogaddi in my car, when i received a phone call. so i paused the music and answered the phone.. after the phone call was over i turned the music back on, and it sounded totally unfamiliar. it ended up being about halfway through "the beach at redpoint" and it made me pick up on a beat in the background that i had never noticed before.

the same thing just happened to me the other night. i finished up playing a round of disc golf with a friend of mine, and when i got in my car and turned on the stereo. i heard a song that sounded completely foreign at first. then i realized i was listening to the middle of white cyclosa.. this made me notice the sound of some type of wind instrument for the first time ( maybe a flute of some kind? ) playing in the background of the track.

its strange because everytime i hear the track now it seems to lead the song for me, where as before the keyboard melody was the one i followed the most.

Lens Larque · Post by **Lens Larque** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:04 pm

That happens to me a lot. When I start up the truck in the morning a BoC track might play (where it left off) a step behind but it sounds like another groove. Most recently with Reach for the Dead. Uncanny. But maybe because there aren't any lyrics to force you into the intended structure.

This also works with ae often enough

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 2:24 pm

White Cyclosa helicopter drone sounded to almost like minigun, like you witnessing the slaughter of people, nice track

herxagernsurn · Post by **herxagernsurn** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:03 pm

I love this effect. I get it when I am in a restaurant or somewhere with a lot of background noise. I hear perhaps just the rhythm section of some music and it sounds fantastic and something I've never heard before. I then find out its some Led Zeppelin track I've heard thousands of times.

Fireal420 wrote:years ago i was listening to geogaddi in my car, when i received a phone call. so i paused the music and answered the phone.. after the phone call was over i turned the music back on, and it sounded totally unfamiliar. it ended up being about halfway through "the beach at redpoint" and it made me pick up on a beat in the background that i had never noticed before.

the same thing just happened to me the other night. i finished up playing a round of disc golf with a friend of mine, and when i got in my car and turned on the stereo. i heard a song that sounded completely foreign at first. then i realized i was listening to the middle of white cyclosa.. this made me notice the sound of some type of wind instrument for the first time ( maybe a flute of some kind? ) playing in the background of the track.

its strange because everytime i hear the track now it seems to lead the song for me, where as before the keyboard melody was the one i followed the most.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:14 pm

purgruv wrote:
miklatov wrote:
mc10101 wrote: Soooooooo THIS!!!
Indeed! When I first heard the track, I had a nagging feeling that I'd heard it before. Then when the 'tune' came in, it hit me - Day of the Dead!
Then a little while later you have a chunk of samples used in Gorillaz' M1 A1 - "Hello!" Is there anybody there?"

Growing up, Day of the Dead was one of my favorite movies. I remember it being really hard to find before the whole zombie explosion of 2004. Before it was released on DVD in 2003 (the one reason I even bought a DVD player) I could only find a shitty VHS copy at a local video store.

Point being, hearing White Cyclosa was one of those great moments in life. Having one of your favorite childhood things obviously influence something completely different is truly special.

Also, that Madonna track has always been my favorite. It's got such a haunting sound. If there is a connection between that track and Tomorrow's Harvest, then that is also a mind-blowingly special thing to me.

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:43 pm

Ok this distorted sound which starts at around 1:40, don't know how to describe it, is really, really creepy

also, yes this

armotron wrote:a low drone synth creeps in at 1:42 that begins to consume the entire track. some faint percussion starts at around 2:06. epic little piece

Dmitrii · Post by **Dmitrii** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:00 pm

http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2012/1 ... -dead.html

this can be a coincidence, but I still find this combination of BoC track titles in one headline quite entertaining.

Jango9 · Post by **Jango9** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:03 pm

Just a quick thought - The main loop throughout the song contains 8 notes, which matches up with the number of legs a Cyclosa (or any spider, for that matter), has. Maybe it was meant to mimic the spider's movement or something?

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 8:07 am

Jango9 wrote:Just a quick thought - The main loop throughout the song contains 8 notes, which matches up with the number of legs a Cyclosa (or any spider, for that matter), has. Maybe it was meant to mimic the spider's movement or something?

huge if true

valleaux · Post by **valleaux** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:02 pm

Jango9 wrote:Just a quick thought - The main loop throughout the song contains 8 notes, which matches up with the number of legs a Cyclosa (or any spider, for that matter), has. Maybe it was meant to mimic the spider's movement or something?

Whoa.

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:54 am

need here in this

CKAT-1 · Post by **CKAT-1** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:02 pm

I was listening to Tomorrow's Harvest last night and I really love that "last minute calm-down beat", it's hard to describe but I just noticed that cool layer between the beat and that "modulator sound", soimething like that...
dodoom vrimvrim dodoom vrimvrim dodoom vrimvrim..

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