03 Vaporeyes - Diggin' Around by Vaporeyes Private Stash published on 2021-11-28T23:27:33Z yourname.wav ep 03 Diggin' Around To celebrate the one-year anniversary of our crowd-funded album "Cantrips", we wanted to share some secret songs. One of the tiers on Kickstarter leading up to the production of "Cantrips" was a custom song. People would send us notes and we got to work on creating their song the best we could. Now, one year later, we got the yourname.wav songs mastered so we can share them with the world (with the permission of those who bought the songs, of course!) The third song was made for bassmaster Shannon's Aunt Serah, who requested that we make a song as a tribute to her late husband, Tom. Tom was a gold miner in the Caribou mountains in Colorado, and he spent his life building his mining business from the ground up. By the time he passed, he was a respectable and well-known figure in the Colorado gold mining community. This song started as an improv jam, but after laying it down we realized it had a natural form that fit the story of Tom well. The first section is a blues-y but upbeat jam that to Shannon encapsulated the toil of working under the earth, keeping your nose to the grindstone, and pushing through fatigue. Pat Tato + Evil Key's verses (Pat and Jonas) speak to the dream of getting out of the mine, even though a part of him loved it... and the love he had for his family, and Shannon's aunt. The song transitions into a melancholic major key ending that Shannon felt symbolized Tom's spirit looking down on everyone he loved, blessing their endeavors and watching over them, while alo communicating a sense of freedom not found in life and corporeal existence. Shannon added the closing line in the song that really nails home this feeling. Genre Wholesome Coalcore