After all this talk about that new subculture song for Act 3- the Steampunk Voodoo song, the song that showcases this new subculture in New Albion which has\u00a0appropriated\u00a0Voudon\u00a0much\u00a0like British youth appropriated the blues in the 60s- wouldn’t you like to actually hear it?<\/p>\n
Of\u00a0course\u00a0you would. So here it is, a demo version anyway. As with all the excerpts, the vocals are only temporary scratch vocals, sung by me to demonstrate to the real singers what they’ll be singing.<\/p>\n
Regardless of all other factors, the 2 things this song absolutely had to be is uptempo and catchy. All my other grand plans for it- west african drumming done through steampunky metallic clanging, the youth of New Albion wildly building a new subculture inspired by Voudon and using their own Sidhe heritage- all this accomplishes nothing if the piece doesn’t\u00a0solve\u00a0the original\u00a0problem\u00a0it needed to solve, which is musically, the opera absolutely needs a catchy, uptempo number right in this spot. So hopefully i’ve juggled all these concerns decently. Time will tell.<\/p>\n
Here it is, Voodoopunk:<\/p>\n
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