Tragedy of the Commons [ 2004 ]

Tracklist:
1. Nocturnal Whisperings
Release date: February 25, 2004
Recording and mixing: February 2004
Music: In Age and Sadness
Producer: In Age and Sadness and Arwin Troost




1.
Nocturnal Whisperings
Lyrics

Lyrics: Pepijn
Music: Roland, Richard and Pepijn

The first song we wrote with the presence of Niels. The main riff we were playing like over and over, and it sounded like something was missing. Suddenly Pepijn grabbed his bass and said something like: "why not play it like this?" and started playing. Although he had made just one minor adjustment, the riff was complete. Using that as out base, we created all sorts of different riffs, that don't stroke with the rest, at first. Looking at the popularity of this song, we made a pretty nice composition out of it all.



2.
Abstracted

Lyrics: Pepijn
Music: Roland and Richard

It all started with the idea of using a clean riff. Roland had written this riff a few weeks earlier but never thought Richard or Pepijn would dare to use it. He was wrong, they immediately liked it and together they started to write the rest. After a lot of brainstorming and writting we finished the song.

 


3.
Silhouette
Lyrics

Music: Roland

I remember rehearsing with the band, and suddenly I had this chord. It sounded so beautiful, at least to my opinion. I asked Pepijn to record it, and later on he send it to me by e-mail. At home I picked up my acoustic guitar and played the chord over and over agian, made a few variations and wrote other pieces. I mailed those recordings to Pepijn and he really did like it. After brushing things up a bit, I let Niels and Richard hear the song, and I remember Niels beeing very content with it. Although it has no lyrics, it certainly has a subject, as is referred to with the title.

 


4.
Vagrant Thoughts

Lyrics: Pepijn
Music: Roland and Richard

This song we started writing with Ivo still in the band. First we had the up-tempo riff but he couldn't get the rhythm, so we slowed things down, and so the march came to life. We're all still thankful for that. Except for the break (written by Richard) the song pretty much wrote itself.

 

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