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Father and Brother

from Elysian Road by Caleb M. Powers

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This was a really fun track to put together—Gregor Kaleri is a complicated character, and it was fun putting together a thematic representation for him. Since he and his daughter Dylan have a rough relationship, and Gregor’s relationship with Tyl, his brother-in-law, is even worse, there was a lot of tension in the narrative whenever his character was on-screen. I was hoping to put some of that tension in this piece, and primarily used tremolo strings and some more metallic, grungy electronic effects in the background to accomplish that. Gregor is more or less a wasteland warlord, and the first time we see him in the show is in a flashback, riding a hovercycle across the apocalyptic surface of the planet, so I thought a twelve-string acoustic guitar would fit quite well into the aesthetic I created for him. Add into that the “Xanlis instrument” and some brass and cinematic hits, and you have Gregor as a character.

The second section of the track, after the cinematic hits fade and we get the brass melody playing in tandem with the tremolo strings, is my attempt to show Gregor’s narrative arc. By starting with a heroic sounding brass melody paired with strings, guitar, and electronic ambience, I wanted to portray the man Gregor used to be, and in some ways, still wished he was. Then, of course, as the tremolo chords become darker and the brass melody descends in the scale, we see Gregor’s descent into proverbial darkness, becoming the violent, controlling man he has become when we see him in Elysian Road.

The last section in the track is a sort of mini-score to a particular scene, the climactic scene that happened in episode ten, the episode this track was built for. After the attack of the Xanlis Murder Beasts on the dome of Evangelia, proper, tensions were high and the crew faced off with Gregor and his men. Evelyn had since found and hacked some drones that were long-asleep in the dome’s subsystems. After the tensions between Gregor and Tyl specifically had reached their tipping point, Evelyn noticed that the drones were acting strangely, and quickly moved to turn them off just an instant before they became unexpectedly hostile. This of course, was the dome itself, Evangelia, acting on its protocols. This brings in Evangelia’s instrument—the col legno strings (where you hit the strings with the back of the bow to create a rather percussive note) to add another counterpoint of intensity to an already intense scene. We get Gregor’s theme again and the track ends with a guitar chord fading into the distance.

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from Elysian Road, released June 16, 2019

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Caleb M. Powers Moscow, Idaho

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