

Sea of Solitude attempts to translate the varied and impacts of depression through interactivity, and “I Picture You Before Me” is doing something similar, just as intimately, through song.įollow Patrick on Twitter. Just like the game, it’s raw, and that’s part of the appeal. It’s cleaned up, of course, and has some polish, but the core-Angelika’s improvisational singing, the lyrics-are from that “sketch” worked out in the room. What appears on the soundtrack is largely what Jackson and Angelika recorded that day. The things that I was feeling really went into this little sketch.” At that time, I was beginning to find music as an outlet again. It was a really dark time, definitely the darkest time in my life. I became very depressed, and I nearly killed myself. Galadriel - Solitude Find the way in my empty mind Empty labyrinths of my thoughts Try to find continuity. It's definitely a process, and you often get worse to get better.

I moved back home to London and to recover. It got to the stage where I had to drop out because I was too thin to sing. “I was training to be an opera singer and I basically, within my first year, began my battle with anorexia. An emotional adventure Sea of Solitude: The Director’s Cut takes you on a beautiful and heart-pounding action-adventure with Kay, a girl so hopeless that she has turned into a monster. “When those words were written, I'd had to drop out of college,” she said. The lengthy pause had less to do with figuring out what might work, but coming to grips with an emotional return to music itself the words on her phone were written at an especially difficult time in her life. They are powerful and they can control our lives if we allow them to. Emotions are something we deal with every day of our lives. She wasn’t coming up with lyrics on the spot, but looking at her phone. Summary: I want to take this passage and preach on the subject Swimming in a Sea of Emotions. It took me a while to work out what I wanted to sing over it.” “I had these lyrics on my phone,” she said, “and I guess I probably took quite a while to come in. Though she’s since spent a lot of time in a jazz group, where improv is key, that wasn’t the case at the time. Improvisation was relatively new to Angelika. “Music just comes out of my fingers into the keyboard and I had the computer recording whatever would come out, and after a few pregnant pauses, I was saying ‘Come on, Stella, sing! Are you in the room?’ I was looking the other way, I didn't want to embarrass her.” I sat at the piano and I just started playing,” he said. “I Picture You Before Me” came about after Jackson started playing on the piano-and patiently waited for Angelika to sing. It wasn’t a song Jackson, nor Angelika, had in mind before sitting down with one another.

That track was a rough draft-a “sketch,” as he called it-with Angelika, who’d come into Jackson’s studio months back to collaborate on a few tracks. “I still need to cry EVERYTIME when i hear you singing on the Soundtrack, honestly!!” wrote Geppert in response to a tweet from Angelika about the song around the game’s release.
