ekyo - Cloudborn (Kyo!) [Animated Music Video]
Channel: ekyo
Date: 2024-04-04

Out now on all platforms! 
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ekyo/cloudborn-kyo-3 
https://ekyo-stuff.bandcamp.com/track/cloudborn-kyo
https://soundcloud.com/ekyo_stuff/cloudborn

More stuff coming soon! follow me on Instagram for updates on new music! 
https://www.instagram.com/ekyo.zip/ 

Here's a bit of backstory for this project for whoever might be interested. 

This song is meant to be a declaration of intentions for this new moniker of mine, to convey the clear direction of that I wanted to take my music in. I started it back in mid-January 2022, and it took almost two years to be finished (I kept tweaking it literally till the very last moment). At first, it was just an exercise to demonstrate in how many different places I could take the same idea (the main arp motif that's used throughout the whole song). It took two FL Studio projects with all the 125 available channels used to finish it (i.e. WAYY too much stuff). After the song was mostly done, I started to work on the animated music video, which took almost six months to complete in After Effects (I might make a making-of and show off the project if people are interested). 

This might be the happiest I've ever been with a project ever: it's perfect to me, it's got all the details I wanted it to have and it sounds the best I could ever have got it to sound, same for the animation (It perfectly conveys how the song "looks" in my head, which was the main intent since the start). I'm probably not going to take on another project of this size in a good while, at least not animation-wise, as I definitely got burnt out while working on it. I do have a couple songs in the vault that are on the same level or even better than this one tho, so stay tuned for more music that will probably follow a similar path (while still being overly creative and trying to cramp way too many ideas cohesively, of course). 

Thanks for watching! Please share this to anyone who might find it cool, it would make me extremely happy to share this with as many people as possible given the amount of work and passion I put into this thing. Thanks in advance! 

Èric Grau