Alone Together by Passion Dance Orchestra

"Inner Dance" is revisiting the dreamy disco vibes of my first record called "Deep Introspection EP" (Boobjazz, Stir15), combining traditional jamming elements (bass, groove, chords) with more sequencer driven minimal-synth elements.
It is divided into two long parts with two different chord progressions. The second part was actually written first, and as many times before I wrote the first part after in order to "justify" the main part or to prepare it. The idea for that second part was to combine the uplifting, ever rising chord progression with a hyper melancholic and falling melody.
Listening back to this twenty years later I realize that I might have been exaggerating with all those endless repetitions - but that's the way I felt back in the day.
"After The Dance" is my personal favorite of all these "INNER MUSIC" tunes and this has several reasons. First of all the arrangement with its long intro that almost works like a whole song in itself: It builds up to an eruptive climax and slowly transitions into the main part with its stomping walking bass line. Everything held together by a very swinging house beat with added brazilian polyrhythms. The final part features a very sad and hypnotizing piano part that allowed me to do some interesting reharmonizations by playing constantly changing bassline variations. After this hyper melancholic and euphoric part has peaked we are returning to the main chord progression and it feels like coming home. It's a long journey that almost feels like healing.

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