‘First Light’ by Neverbody is a very ephemeral, viscous and hypnotizing instrumental, as if drawing in all space and time, adjusting itself to all kinds of matter and states.
Neverbody – First Light
Have you seen Apocalypse Now? Great movie, isn’t it? Do you remember the very, very beginning of the film, when Captain Willard is blown away by memories of the war? Before him are images of explosions and burning forests, flying helicopters and slowly clapping like a metronome, unceasing blades, all this vision floats before his eyes in some motel in Saigon, and he lies on his bed and smokes a cigarette with a completely blank look in his eyes, listening to the muddy mantras of Jim Morrison. Did you catch that same feeling of a mixture of detachment from reality and procrastination that then befell and covered the captain? The song “First Light” gives out the same feeling.
Of course, at first glance, it may seem to you that this is just some kind of boring jazz with an electric guitar, under which you can either sleep or do your homework. However, look at it from the other side – turn it on and look at anything. Notice how interestingly and accurately the song sync with your reality. How delicately your clock on the wall began to tick, how beautifully the colours shimmered in the lamp, or how smoothly cars drive from one end of your window to the other across the street, disappearing from your field of vision. “First Light” is a very ephemeral, viscous and hypnotizing instrumental, as if drawing in all space and time, adjusting itself to all kinds of matter and states.
The ability of this song to set its own unique rhythm of reality was born in an extremely simple way – Neverbody makes it extremely cinematic and graceful, making a minimalistic arrangement with slight touches of psychedelic and ambient. Every time the band finishes a new verse, the song doesn’t stop and it’s as if some kind of magical trail of synthesizers and echoes follows it, responding to emptiness. Jazzy elegance and haste with cool layers of empty city atmosphere or a wintry evening cafe give “First Light” its character and uniqueness. And since the song is instrumental, then the instruments are speaking here for themselves, without further ado.
“First Light” is the music of the slowest, smallest, perhaps even trifling, but at the same time very beautiful moments of our lives – fading cigarettes in the fingers, falling snow, intimate tango, endless conversations about nothing, sitting on the windowsill with a book in hands, cooling tea or coffee, morning inertia of sleep. All these things also have their own character – very attractive and charming, so do not underestimate them. Maybe you hate getting up in the morning, but isn’t there some kind of magic in this moment when you just woke up, look out the window and see how the first light of the sun brightens up your winter city?
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