The field recording tying together the drone-like piano and synthesizer-based ambience in the first half of the piece was recorded at Manor Farm, a place that holds a vast emotional significance to a close friend and band-mate, with whom I was staying there to break up a journey to a gig in Cornwall. The introductory experience of venturing this far for a music-related activity (additionally after a lengthy period of staying indoors) sparked a sense of excitement. This excitement is then expanded upon in the second half of the piece, where samples I recorded in various places during a UK tour I did in October 2021 are woven into a more energetic and vast sonic texture.
The piece fades out leaving a somewhat unfinished shimmer of this energy felt, reverting back to a potentially uncertain and indifferent mindset.
The title originates from a conversation my partner and I had with a stranger at the pub (a while back), grabbed from a video of me petting their dog:
“(…) I'm just trying to remember the name of the film I was talking about (…) It was a bout a young boy finding life (…)”
It turns out the stranger was talking about David Lynch's Blue Velvet."