Hiromonra’s “You and Me” was conceived as a sort of musical short story. The music video with the illustration and minimal animation, a star twinkling in the background and the figures in the foreground moving in time with the looping keyboard figure. A steady drum beat and sonorous vocals accented by what sounds like record scratching faintly in the background giving the soundscape a texture as a spare guitar melody traces the contours of the song. The image is one of a person feeding a bird in a park at some impossible time of the day with a bright blue sky as the star shines visibly. Too light to be dusk or night, though maybe early morning. But these real life temporal considerations don’t matter as the song and its soulful vocals resting ethereally in an introspective downtempo composition is not tied to a specific musical decade or style either. Rather, it asks for and is easily accepted on its own terms as the dream of a pleasant memory in your mind. Like a great short story it doesn’t try to do too much and is brilliant in its economy and expressing more than seems obvious on your first iteration going through it. Watch the video for and listen to “You and Me” on YouTube.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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