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Dome, Sweet Dome

from Elysian Road by Caleb M. Powers

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The first track I ever made for this album, begun mostly on a whim. I had recently ac-quired a free library of various synthetic instruments and was playing through them to try them out, and came across what I have dubbed the “Xanlis instrument” which is a sort of flanging almost electric guitar-sounding synth that just screamed “apocalyptic wasteland” to me. Add a sort of ambient distant guitar instrument to it and you have Xanlis, in all its uninhabitable splendor. I wrote most of it in one go, and it has changed the least out of all of the tracks, I think, since its first incarnation. I’m not sure I’ve edited it at all since the second session I sat down to listen through it and tweak some things back in December.

Xanlis, as I’ve mentioned before, is a wasteland planet, and home to Dylan Kaleri, who is sort of the main character of the first season of Elysian Road. Given that, it makes sense that we would spend the most amount of time on Xanlis, dealing with one dramatic situation after another. This track and the next five feature scenes on Xanlis, with some of the most intense and epic sequences in Elysian Road. This track, however, is not really the score to anything like that, but rather more of an ambient track meant to display Xanlis in general. If it would be played in its entirety anywhere in the imaginary TV show that is Elysian Road, it would be during the flashback sequence at the beginning of episode eight, where Dylan’s father Gregor Kaleri is riding on a hovercycle through the wastelands of Xanlis.

As for the name of the track, one last worldbuilding note: Xanlis, before it was a wasteland planet, was home to huge dome cities that were more or less self-sustaining. With the catastrophe that happened to make Xanlis a post-apcalyptic wasteland, the dome cities are really the only places still habitable on the planet. Some of them don’t work anymore, and all of them have problems, but the dome cities are where the people who still on Xanlis call home. Dylan’s home is a dome called Evangelia, and where the action of the crew’s time on Xanlis happens.

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from Elysian Road, released June 16, 2019

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