Priscilla Hernandez: The Wind Song (Song + Art) (Ready to be swept off my feet, Winds of Change are coming!)

I have always been obsessed with the Wind, and this is a particular favourite of mine, maybe one of my most underrated... Experimental track with film music undertones, in which I created an ominous wind texture with different instruments (flutes, wind bands, roarers, aeolian harp). It's a strange song... eerie, haunting and ghostly as wind is... but Aren't we all ready for WINDS OF CHANGE?

We all fear Change... we fear to change too... though sometimes we shift... and we must just realized we have already changed.

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My long time obsession with the Wind

The Wind Song is one of my favourite songs of mine... likely one of the most underrated too... It is indeed a weird song, not precisely mainstream but it was for me one of the most experimental, creating the wind sound FX with a blend of different strange instruments. Eerie and ghostly, it's one of my favourite lyrics of mine... I guess this song is strange in many ways, and it has different moods, parts and dynamics as if some kind of soundtrack... My favourite part is the ending.

During our concernts when playing this song we would make the audience hiss together as part of the storytelling of the song.

I was born and grew up in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), indeed a very windy place... There are even legends of people going mad because of the constant hum there... For me it always was haunting and magical. Haunting, spectral maybe... but always otherwordly and that is the kind of eeriness I want to convey in this one. Wind has always inspired me, it is one of my childhood obsessions... as I stared through the window to the turmoil of the gale the ocean turning brown, the branches swaying heavily...

And I'm always standing to face new storms

No you can't catch the wind
As you can't hold the tide

Sometimes there are things we cannot change, things we must accept... the ending line of the song also has a different metaphorical meaning.

I summon winds of change, I am ready to be swept off my feet

Creating the Artworks for the song

Oh Can't you hear them howling?

As some of you already know I'm an illustrator besides a musician and my published albums both feature my art and music blended together... For this song I opted for a very simple drawing, I doodled it pretty quick, I didn't want the wind "Underlivings" to have human proportions, they're entangled like a vortex, and though they howl and whistle, no mouths are to be seen...

Do you remember one of Gollum's Riddles in the Dark in The Hobbit?

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Then I completed the drawing inking it with a very fine micron marker and painting with a gentle wash of watercolours. For the textures in the background I used diluted Payne's Gray watercolour and sprinkled salt, which actually draws patterns and textures.

Creating the Wind sound with many acoustic instruments

The intro was created with a bansuri, a simple bamboo flute, the one shown in the next picture:

To create the uneasy wind I used a combination of my own moans, hissings, whispers and subtle backing vocals combined with several instruments

Wind bands are a modern type of "bull roarers" aerophone music instruments and the sound is caused by air against the surface of the instrument. They are usually constructed of wood with a rubber band resonator. It doesn't require any special technique except twirling it with the handle, depending on the speed it can create a variety of sounds and is tune-able to different pitches. When you spin it it produces a drone sound, kind of eerie and ghostly

I overlayed also whistling sounds made with my double Ocarina. It is one of my most changelling wind instruments as its double chamber allows to play two melodies at the same time, yet this time I only blowed gently to create whistling wind FX

Another instrument that was used unconventionally to create this wind "soundscape" was the harp. If you place the harp against a current of air (or wind) all the strings will resonate and it will sound on its own in a ethereal suspended infinite chord. Aeolian harps (From the Greek Aeolus, wind) are usually build to be monochords but normal harps can also render those ghostly moans. I have sampled it many times as part of my library of self created sounds.

^{Above: A couple of weekends ago outdoors sampling aeolian sounds from my harp in Ata Valley, Spain (Summer, 2018)}

I also used carrillons and chimes... In particular Koshi chimes which are tuned in different tonalities, as picture in the following photography:

Credits

I composed several layers of cello arrangements that were recorded by guest band member Biel Fiol. Gaston Iungman, from Argentina, recorded the guitar solo at the end, as the song has several parts and dynamics (and strange abrupt ending)

Music, vocals, arrangements and lyrics by Priscilla Hernandez (@yidneth).
Additional arrangements Mixing and Mastering by @hedac
Electric guitar by Gaston Iungman ; Cello by Biel Fiol

THE WIND SONG (Lyrics / Poem)

^{Another sketch I made for this song}

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Some highlighted posts / Algunos posts destacados

• Līgo (Traditional Latvian Folk Song): NEW MUSIC VIDEO, celebration of Summer, Life, Lammas
• Ethereal: Original Song, video and photography. I-talent Round 9 Winner
• Grow: Music video and Making Of: A song about personal growth
• Music video and Making of In the Mist with my animated illustrations (Original Music and Behind the Scenes)

My social network / Mis redes sociales

Official site

http://yidneth.com

Networks

• http://steemit.com/@yidneth (you're here ;-))
• http://youtube.com/yidneth
• http://instagram.com/yidneth
• http://facebook.com/yidneth
• http://twitter.com/yidneth
• http://soundcloud.com/yidneth
• https://choon.co/artists/yidneth/
• https://whaleshares.io/@yidneth

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Priscilla Hernandez
singer-songwriter & illustrator
http://yidneth.com

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Priscilla Hernandez
yidneth.com

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