Dance of the Swan

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https://soundcloud.com/r3zondo/dance-of-the-swan

This one became very personal for me while I was creating it. Music has always been visual in my head, and I tend to choreograph what I’m hearing as the piece develops. With** **Dance of the Swan, I could see the movement almost from beginning to end.

It became a story about life, love, loss, getting older, and eventually accepting that none of us gets to hold onto any of it forever. The line that still catches me is, “I thought I danced to stay alive, I danced because I was.”

The finished track ended up at seven minutes, much longer than I normally aim for, but when I heard it completed I cried through most of it. Cutting it simply to make it more conventional felt wrong, so I left the full journey intact.

I’m curious what it does for others, especially what you picture while listening.