Beneath the Silent Skies

This is a song dating back to some time in 2004, and it's really just about enjoying the little things in life. The basic premise is this: if you close your eyes, you can find heaven anywhere. Even in Yorkshire. Anyway, we had some trouble shoe-horning the title into the lyrics somewhere, but it seems to work. It's not my best vocal performance ever, and really the song might have worked better if I'd made a better job of singing it, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

It's actually not changed an awful lot since the original demo. It started off life trying to be electro, and probably ended up a lot more gentle than Simon intended. Then, in summer 2005, we came back and remixed it, although we didn't change much except the drums. At the same time I had a vague idea that we should do a prog rock extended version, where it just disappeared into an entirely unrelated instrumental section, and thus Part 2 was born. Initially, it was an extended version, but Simon took it apart, and we never found a good enough reason for putting it together again, and there you have it really.

Some news will follow in a bit.

The difficult second single

Oh look, it's Beneath the Silent Skies!


That's our new single, available on Monday from no good record stores, even Woolworth's.

It contains five tracks:

1. Beneath the Silent Skies
2. Point of no Return
3. Running with the Wind
4. Beneath the Silent Skies (part 2)
5. The Healing

As always, specific comments will toddle along for each track later. The main track is identical to the song of the same name that we put on our last album Dusk, but we've also included the 'Part 2' version, which we recorded at the same time.

This time round, you don't get any exclusive downloads, because although demo versions of the second and third tracks do exist, they're really not terribly good. No, instead, you can download either (or both) of the first two tracks, and enjoy (or endure) them in your own time. Then, if you like them, you can send us lots of money, and we might send you the other three tracks on a 'compact disc', if you can remember those things from the olden days.

The main site is here: www.hypernova.org.uk - why not tell a friend?

Expect the marginally less difficult third single in September, or thereabouts.