Beyond Us, Only Darkness
Now that the album is out, we want to take the opportunity to guide you through the songs and give you some background info on all of them. Today: Beyond Us, Only Darkness.
Previous:
➡️ Let Me Steer, As I Am the Bigger Captain
➡️ I Will Guide You Over Oceans and Across Troubled Lands
➡️ We Are All, In All Places, Strangers and Pilgrims, Travelers and Sojourners
It’s quite easy to divide this song up in two pieces, at the four minute mark. We had been playing around with the hook for the second part endlessly. Tried playing it a 1000 different ways, felt there was something there but could not figure out where to take it next. Then, when we were pretty much ready to abandon it altogether, Jeroen whipped up that almost pop-sounding melody at the heart of the first part of the song. We placed the two parts together and never looked back.
It’s hard to verbalise how exactly, but it feels like diving into classical compositions on GEELZWART has really helped us to make the ending of the song sound orchestral.
For each song of the album, we made individual artwork. All of them centered around the same theme and adhering to the same visual principles. Here’s the artwork for ‘Beyond’:
As with the cover art of ZWARTGROEN itself, all the images used are from the public domain Rijksmuseum archive. Here are all the original art pieces that we used:
