The harmonic slow swell that subtly ushers in Ocoeur’s “Second Chance” is like the beginning of the day in its progression—a background shift in energy and emotional resonance that evolves seemingly suddenly into a sunlit sky. It’s a sustained harmonic layering that works together as tones make themselves known with an impressionistic coalescence of elements with single notes signing out and echoing with sonic trails like a fading afterimage. Musically it also has a feeling like being able to walk or drive through the streets in the days leading up to Christmas in the USA when people, businesses and the city leave their lighting decorations on throughout the night. There is bright tranquility to that feeling that even if the world is in peril at all times you can take in a moment or a dozen to take in something quaint and beautiful and simple that doesn’t have an immediate commercial utility. It’s in that moment that maybe you can entertain the idea that our conflicted species might have another chance if we can not obey our role in a global system of commodifying capitalism baked into every interaction, increasingly demanding our time and our energy in lives in which any idle moment is treated as theft from the economy. This song sounds like that mindset is irrelevant in the grand scheme of actually living. Listen to “Second Chance” on Spotify and follow Ocoeur at the links below.
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