The beast that is "Faraway Island" has officially been tamed! With that, I feel we may already have overcome Chronicles of a Dead End's biggest technical hurdle. Again I've included, in this video, brief snippets of the previous versions; the Escapade version in particular shows most clearly just how badly I was overreaching, attempting to make this kind of music on my own.
Besides the line-up already introduced, we have Lynsey Tibbs (via Musiversal) on vocals. She has a 3-octave range, but isn't one to rub it in the listener's face, instead simply using it to make heady heights seem completely effortless. I'm also impressed by her stylish vibrato, which she doesn't overuse but treats as just another vocal effect.
The landscape on the planned album cover, by the way, is based on a photo I took during a 2018 visit to the actual place that inspired this particular song. The colour filter I put it through is a sly cross-reference to the (ridiculous) original Escapade artwork, in which I was attempting to apply some sort of trippy psychedelic effect to my 18-year-old face.
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