Difference between revisions of "Semena Mertvykh"

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Semena Mertvykh
Running time	3:30
Appears on	Tomorrow's Harvest

Joe Clay: "All I wrote for this one was: "Drone. Heavy. Aeroplane over my house." And I'm afraid I can't really remember what it sounded like. I can tell you that the title translates as "Seeds of the Dead" in Russian." ^[1]

This track was used in the "Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission" video which was accessible by inputting the 6 6-digit numbers on the cosecha-transmisiones.com website. ^[2]

Playing up this recording's "cinematic" angle, and following the Telepath's instructions to try listening "up and down," I reversed the order of the Tomorrow's Harvest track listing in my player: Try starting with Semena Mertvykh and ending with Gemini.
- Further evidence to support doing this is the version of Semena Mertvykh in the Cosecha Transmisiones teaser/herald's soundtrack, the remarkable overlay of the Reach For The Dead video forward & in reverse (see http://vimeo.com/66983696), as well as the performers' comments regarding the palindromic nature of Tomorrow's Harvest.
- Many reviews & comments note that in the as-released/unreversed track order, the second half of Tomorrow's Harvest is relatively upbeat. But listening to the tracks in this reversed order seems to break down that distinction.
- My own impression of this reversed track order is a sequence of optimistic vs. antagonistic/opposing vignettes, ending with Gemini as a kind of post-credits epilogue that reveals the protagonist's failure.
- Then again, that opening Gemini fanfare just doesn't seem to fit in this point of view. Isn't that the first thing you'd expect to hear as the curtain rises?

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 *This track was used in the "[[Videos#Tomorrow.27s_Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission]]" video which was accessible by inputting the 6 6-digit numbers on the [[cosecha-transmisiones.com]] website. <ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=e2lyYEUPat8}}</ref>
-* Playing up this recording's "cinematic" angle, and following the telepath's instructions to try listening "up and down," I reversed the order of the Tomorrow's Harvest track listing in my player: Try starting with Semena Mertvykh and ending with [[Gemini]].
+* Playing up this recording's "cinematic" angle, and following the [[Telepath]]'s instructions to try listening "up and down," I reversed the order of the Tomorrow's Harvest track listing in my player: Try starting with Semena Mertvykh and ending with [[Gemini]].
 **Further evidence to support doing this is the version of Semena Mertvykh in the [[Cosecha Transmisiones]] teaser/herald's soundtrack, the remarkable overlay of the Reach For The Dead video forward & in reverse (see http://vimeo.com/66983696), as well as the performers' comments regarding the palindromic nature of Tomorrow's Harvest.
 **Many reviews & comments note that in the as-released/unreversed track order, the second half of Tomorrow's Harvest is relatively upbeat. But listening to the tracks in this reversed order seems to break down that distinction.