Forgotten Pools from Terminal Drizzle by Sax&Cigarettes

This track explores what lingers in the deeper recesses of Terminal Station, where water collects and time slows. The Conductor’s saxophone lines drift like half-forgotten laments over the quiet tension found in these neglected spaces, a deliberate shift from the album’s broader scope into more intimate, waterlogged corners. The Smoke’s prepared piano, for this piece, was specifically tuned to create bell-like tones, an effect that emerged almost by accident during a late-night session, but proved essential in evoking distant station chimes or the solemn beauty of what remains. It gives 'Forgotten Pools' its distinctive, almost liturgical resonance in places, a departure from some of our usual dissonances. The Witness, meanwhile, layered fragments of children's laughter and lovers' whispers from the Memory Box, allowing these ghostly choruses to surface and recede in a rondo structure, a circular path through memories that never quite fade. This layering wasn't just about sound; it was an attempt to capture the station's own breath, the way its ambient reverb shifts and warps, pulling forgotten voices from its metal and rust. The track aims to preserve those overlooked pockets of beauty, finding meaning in the echoes of what others left behind.

Smoke-filled rooms, broken clocks, and saxophone lines that cut through silence like secrets. We play the music that lives between midnight and 3 AM.