Waterwalker - Music inspired by Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga and Void trilogy
The track is called "Waterwalker" (lyrics below) and was inspired directly by the Commonwealth Saga and Void trilogy. It's one of the tracks on our upcoming self-produced album, Supercruise, which is heavily infused with science fiction themes.
We don't have a set genre but work primarily in the funk, hip hop, soul and blues spheres, mostly because that's the kind of music we love and know how to play. There are some retrowave sounds on some of the other tracks. This project began more than a year ago as a labor of love and there's no set date for the entire album, but we hope to have a better idea in the coming months as we finish a few more tracks and get a sense for how things are shaping up.
Lyrics:
Ingress burn aligned in phase
Riding lines through time and space
Emerge from a shining gate
Anti-matter drives ablaze
Burning toward an evening star
My primal human beating heart
Screaming photons teased apart
In the Void receding far
The Waterwalker flies below
In the city's mind enthroned
Guiding where the time will flow
To new horizons skylords show
The Morning Light on Mountains high
Portals blaze on ground and sky
On every world we're found alive
Raising swords and counting Primes
Waterwalker, bring the mighty low
Waterwalker, bring your far sight home
Waterwalker, turn the hills to ash
Oh Waterwalker, roam the Silfen paths!
Waterwalker, will you intervene?
Waterwalker, you're the Living Dream
Waterwalker, can we be redeemed?
In a world where we don't build machines"
I've also uploaded the album's intro track, which is just a short bit to get the party started:
https://youtu.be/FQ84Ur2J358?si=IbulndsVKjnKgoIt
That one has references to Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series, and of course Deep Navigation is the name of one of AR's short story collections, used with his blessing.
If anyone digs this and is interesting, I will post updates as we hopefully bring a complete album together by the end of this year. I'm a huge fan of Hamilton, Reynolds, Banks et al, and it's been really fun to mine their stories for musical inspiration. Cheers.