Synthwave Double Feature: from the dark to the coast

Welcome to your era.

The concept for Welcome to my ERA begins in a darker atmosphere: shadowy spaces and retro synthesizers, with cold sounds moving slowly through the scene.

Its cover places the scene in black and red. A figure in the dark and the red light of a mechanical mask sit beside the title, like a film poster waiting for its opening scene.

Imagine the screen going dark, with only a single beam of light remaining. The title appears, and the story steps into its own era.

We place it first. As you listen, notice which sounds suggest distance or space, and which image comes to mind first.

The night deepens. Time keeps moving.

Counting Hours takes the picture somewhere more open. Fresh melodies and synthesizer rhythms suggest a night journey along a coastal road after rain: reflections on the road, city lights slowly falling behind.

On the cover, a person follows the road into the distance. Between the sea, the wet pavement and the distant city, there is space to pause.

These are the images connecting the two tracks in our double feature: leaving the shadows of the first scene for the night road of the second, carrying one track’s mood into the next.