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Ameliorate

by Senescere

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1.
Ameliorate 04:20
Yes, venture out, my poor beloved Routine and mundane passer-by Into the woods my hand would take you To gaze at staggering odds, life and death on minute scales Grandeur surrounds Stress and ponder your hopes and dreams While eternal eyes of nature mock from the sidelines Move! The sun overhead, still warm And the shade still cools All your plights are subdued In this biome of diversity Our greatest reach in vain again To contribute with a futility That so few of us would admit But, the birds sing no more Once they feel the assured eye of the predator All shudder in revealing touch of light Collecting wealth, avoiding grief (Or so it seems) The wonder of it all, absent to you Clinging to permanence False sense of importance You're fading... Move! The sun overhead, still warm And the shade still cools All your plights are subdued In this biome of diversity Our greatest reach in vain again
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All day call on one more breath And in the dark, wishing it would go Fresh air fills your senses just enough To stave off your loss one more time I said the night would come, I didn't mean it lightly I sense your urge to roam To feel the moss and twigs under your feet To correlate The owl sees The red-tail, high The mouse reflects in corn snake's eyes The mole burrows its home The rabbit stares The bees in flight And fox will play as deer roam by The bear returns Trapped in four walls Photographs, stale air Leave now, the burden of grief And soak in the scent of pines A hollow form in need of self-awareness Correlate to ecosystems Find the longing once again Now, step out of your barren thoughts Feel the health and power of the woods Stretch your heart and fibers of your life Absorb the streams, stir your blood again I said the night would come, I didn't mean it lightly I sense your urge to roam To feel the moss and twigs under your feet To correlate
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Interbeing 02:23
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about

Ameliorate (verb): To make a bad or unpleasant situation better.

This is the first Senescere music I've managed to put out since 2020. Covid happened, lots of personal stuff happened, and for a long time it was very difficult to find the motivation or opportunity to work on anything productive. Still, this project remains a very essential part of my creativity and mental health.

The Ameliorate EP consists primarily of two new original songs: the opening title track and Moss And Twigs. They felt like they belonged together on a dedicated release, so I took a break on some other material that I was working on to focus on these. Both are about balancing your perspective of your own struggles with the fragility, impermanence and harsh beauty found in nature.

Interbeing is a new acoustic piece very much in-line with what I was doing in the early days of Senescere, and Lay The Ghost To Rest is a cover of an Insomnium song that I felt would go really well with the theme of the EP (and one that I consider very underrated in their discography).

This release was a weight off my shoulders. In that respect, the title has some literal significance for me. Thank you to anyone who is listening.

- Alden

credits

released November 17, 2023

All vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, and bass by Alden Bradstock
Drums performed and recorded by Parker Yowell

Produced by Alden Bradstock
Mixed by Josh Clark at Dark Hollow Studio www.darkhollowstudio.com
Mastered by James Plotkin www.plotkinworks.com
Cover photo and art by Alden Bradstock

All music and lyrics by Alden Bradstock except "Lay The Ghost To Rest", originally by Insomnium with music and lyrics by Ville Friman.

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Melodic death metal with progressive and rock elements.

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