Titanomachy

by Henry Louris

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Bryan Frazier Great work Henry. Your creativity has created a wide soundscape.

Iariass Interesting mix of styles, love the concept and the way it feels like underground 90's music and fresh at the same time.

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Originating from a dream, "Titanomachy" tells the story of generational uprising from the perspective of a passive bystander. The narrator realizes that they capitalize on the spirit of revolution, therefore appropriating its nature in order to profit off of it. The song not only serves as a commentary on the corporate coopting of protest, but it also allows me to reflect on my own relationship as a white person with my blues and rock influences. The turmoil of the arrangement is a result of me wrestling with my own relationship to music born out of pain and community that is not my own.
Titanomachy is fully a pop song, but it derives influence from the blues of B.B, King in combination with the progressive folk of Roy Harper and the proto post-rock of Talk Talk. However, as the production progressed, I channeled that influence into art pop resembling David Bowie and Kate Bush, echoing Bowie's own relationship to Black music in his "plastic soul" period. In that sense, I believe Titanomachy to be an ode to influence: both its artistry and its brutality.

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I've been lied to
And i've been trying to
Get back home
Before the break of dawn
Forlorn
Until reborn
Could not erase
What I just saw

And I tried to get back
And I'm going insane
Though I gave you the game
But now
I'm off on the run

It all has been for love (x2)

So bad
If I told that
Of what I saw
Beneath the cold sun

Uphold
Carnage two-fold
Buried once
By two for fun

And I know I've been had
But it wasn't in vain
Though it all stays the same
Through hell
They've punished the law

It all has been for love (x2)

. . .

And I know I've been had
But it wasn't in vain
Though it all stays the same
Through hell
They've punished the law

It all has been for love (woah my way)...

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released January 9, 2022

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Henry Louris Boston, Massachusetts

Henry Louris is a self-produced songwriter based in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Louris’s work explores themes from Greek mythology, Jewish mysticism, and Kriya Yoga. The music combines elements of progressive folk with drum machines, layered vocals, and cutting riffs to create a sound that is both vast and immediate, reflecting the artist’s desire to find the universal in the deeply personal. ... more

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