Love the new song!  I think my fave sound is that deep tuba-like sound.  

I generally don't have the patience (or rather Lily doens't have the patience) for longer songs, but this one is really 
interesting all the way through.

Thanks for the listen!  

By the way, Dr. Kong Balong sent me.

Chris

Very cool! Reminds me a bit of Vangelis. Nice work!

--Thomas

Thanks for the comments!
Glad to see the good Dr is influencing people :)
One of the things that I really liked about that synth sound is that it's very dynamic in the range of the keyboard... 
by that I mean that everything you hear in that song were created by exactly the same sound on the synth... but the sound is 
very lively and so it sounds different on different keys.  Cool, eh?
So Lily liked it?  Did she dance? :)

I don't know about Japanese, but it does sound Martian to me!  Play this around me sometime and I'll point out the parts I really like.  :) - M

It's not Japanese, it's Xhosa -- a South African language. Senzeni Na, "what have we done", was an anti-apartheid song, 
a lament... there's a documentary about the struggle songs called Amandla, you can hear it there.

Hey, I think you're right.  The book had a group of Japanese settlers that named the place, so I think I
just assumed it was Japanese because it kind of sounds like it.  But I guess they were using a reference
from a different language.  Thanks for the info.  Interesting note is that I have an album by Miles
Davis called "Amandla" that must be referencing the same thing.

The magical workings of the web have brought me back here after a long time.  I gotta say, this is my favorite kind of music by you.  I'd like to see more returns to your improv roots!!  This song is awesome.