This song was born with a riff I came up with on the acoustic guitar of a cousin on a vacation I was in Seattle.
When I returned to Bogotá and joined the band introspección I decided to take this idea and make it a song for them to record.
The song was a little off the context of the first album revealed and for the second album I had already decided to not bring song that were exclusively mine.
however this song stinks of Introspección, because it was made for introspección and I wanted it to be recorded by the whole band,
and fortunately all of them helped me, bringing the song to other level.
Style
Besides the influence of Introspección that this song has,
in the pre choruses and in the interlude I wanted to explore some tools used by Angra in their album Temple of Shadows,
as well as introducing blastbeats on drums to intensify certain sections on the style of Moi Dix Mois,
which at that time wasn't very usual on heavy metal.
Lyrics
When i was a kid I always love to get wet when it rained,
nowadays it's a bit inconvenient, but I still enjoy it,
in the lyrics of this song I kind of wanted to speak about the influence of rain in our lives,
that as everything in nature this influence could be positive or negative,
but definitely vital, because it is a phenomena
that keeps us alive and on ocassion it can decide how we die.
You and those things you come up with ._.'
(Guitar)
The first week of recording guitars Mauricio recorded this song,
but due to the tiredness caused by recording more than 3 days in a row I wasn't happy with the result in this song in particular,
that's why some months later I visited him on his house in Mosquera and we re-recorded these guitars, that ended up clear and aggresive.
Almost a year later I bugged him asking him to record a solo I had written for the song,
he came to my house and pulled it through even though the digitation was very uncomfortable.
wait, I'll change this figure
(Chorus)
Diego was student of mine on the school of Rock.Aktiva, he is a bassist but his singing voice is very particular
because it is abnormally low
he gets very high amplitudes on very low notes
as I am an awful and naive arranger, some songs had very difficult notes for the bass section to reach
but fortunately Diego is one of the 2 basses that saved the songs from this particular problem
(Bass Guitar)
With Fabian we had done the preproduction of the bass lines on the album Transcending here at my home,
we both learnt a lot from that process, and I feel we built together a peculiar way of writing basslines which is very rhythmically based,
it has a lot of protagonistic melodies, without leaving behind the weight of the base of the song,
furthermore, he being a guitarist, he uses a plectrum, which brings a lot of definition.
I went to his home to record and as we had recorded before together, everything came out incredible.
(Guitar)
César is not only a virtuoso guitarist, but also a very creative musician technically and musically.
Besides recording the rhythm guitars of this song, I asked him to come up with a very virtuous solo in the interlude,
and in less than 2 hours he built it and recorded it, full of unconventional figures and a lot of vertigo that just crashes on you.
No, sometimes it takes long, sometimes it takes little time
Well let's say, that change was something I didn't assimilate (I have no idea what he's talking about)
(Chorus)
Diana has been an inconditional friend of Introspección for several years
and she's the kind of person that is very apassionate for their work as Media Manager
She studied Piano and Sound Engineering when she was young and she is very good imitating voices
and when she does, she shows that she sings very well, so I decided to involve her on this crazy ride of this album to see what happened
the result was very satisfactory, and also we had a great time joking a lot
(Drums)
Juan Camilo is the fastest drummer I chose for this album,
and Under the Rain being a song for Introspección was perfect for showcasing his style that not only is very fast,
but also very precise and with the intensity that this kind of Heavy Metal song asks for.
(Choir)
Juan Camilo is a friend of Mauricio Rincón and mine
and as with Mauricio, we also used to chat about his progress as a singer
they took some classes with Paulo Cuevas, so I asked him if he would like to participate recording choirs
because he is a singer that has a lot of energy, and a very potent voice that shows how much he loves singing
(Keyboards)
Being a very simple structured song, that repeats the verse, the pre-chorus and the chorus 3 times,
I wanted to bring a different variation to each pre-chorus, generating ambiebces related to the lyrics,
the first prechoir is expectant
the second egyptian
and the third futuristic.
I also wanted the vocoder, that was a contribution of mine to Introspección that brought an unique touch to the song Exile,
to have a presence in this song besides the choir.
(Special Effects influenced on EL CHAVO)
(Vocals)
Nelson is by far one of the best Heavy Metal singers there are, a very professional sound,
impeccable english and a lot of strength and depth in very high notes,
he also is very fast understanding the ideals and vocal lines of a song,
for this song I wanted him to be a bit more aggressive than usual on the pre-choruses,
and fortunately I got this desperate rage in the style of Bruce Dickinson that I was looking for.
As everybody did bored faces when they finished the song
We decided with Mauricio to Keep the Tradition!
Okay Mister, We're all Done but...
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