my mother the maskmaker

nico
914 Aug 7, 20 Other
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featuring caroline jesalva on violin! --- standing eye to eye with faces from my past, i lift them off their hooks knowing they're more than masks. - it seems obvious, but difficult to do; every mask you make must be a part of you. - as i grew up with her masks hanging everywhere, they seemed to stare at me. i barely minded them at all, i never really noticed. - and when i'm gone they'll be right here, watching my memories, keeping them safe. - now that i've gone to see something new, they'll be with me, and so will she (and so will she) - let's stop for a while. can't you see? (can't you see) it's my artistic style, i'm not just lazy. - my mother, the maskmaker. remember what you heard. --- (thanks to heissen and my roommate coolyjojo for the mixing help)

aeiter
aeiter Oct 16, 23

i attempted to remix this masterpiece when it came out. learned a lot from your draft

nico
nico Oct 16, 23

<333

naswalt
naswalt Apr 4, 22

This is some top notch stuff, damn. It's honestly remarkable what you get out of a few ideas "I want to work with some weird theory stuff" can lead to some powerful expression. The effort was worth it here. This is lemon demon helping me process childhood trauma or some shit. Also tight drums @ like that's some tight groove!!

nico
nico Apr 4, 22

thanks nas means a lot! i didn't hide it i think it's just far down on my page lol

naswalt
naswalt Apr 4, 22

bruh, did you hide this?

SHOJO ACID
SHOJO ACID Jan 14, 22

okay looking abck at this this is kinda just okay jacob collier worship and basically putting theory and stuf over actual songcraft no offense tho, i can tell you put your soul in this! :3 <3

nico
nico Jan 14, 22

those are some pretty reductionist remarks!

Snowfire
Snowfire Mar 30, 21

Damn it's already been over half a year? That's nuts. Good stuff dude, I can't stop coming back to this and listening to it on spotify lol.

nico
nico Mar 30, 21

7 months? that’s crazy this feels like a million years ago and yesterday at the same time. thank you for your support it means so so much!

viista
viista Jan 30, 21

this is one of the first audiotool tracks that almost made me cry that first half holy shit. the 2nd is so soothing. ofc the drums are also perfect. your brain is so big my brain cant handle its greatness.

Wightfall
Wightfall Sep 5, 20

Vocal harmonies are nailing me again man. Whole thing is so fucking sublime

nico
nico Sep 3, 20

i appreciate it :-)

Snowfire
Snowfire Aug 18, 20

This is pretty awesome.

aeiter
aeiter Aug 13, 20

jamming out on guitar with the last section mmmm

nico
nico Aug 13, 20

no wayyyy!! pls if u feel like it record and send my way i would so love to hear what you're doing!

seb
seb Aug 13, 20

this is giving me such a specific feeling, like going through the middle of the mall, walking right pass the perfume area, where theres a lot of people handing out a lot of perfume... idk why but this song sounds like the smell of a lot of forced perfume