The Secret Chord – Queen City Sounds and Art

TheSecretChord1_crop — The Secret Chord, photo courtesy the artist

Nathan Hui-Yi as The Secret Chord has tapped into a palette of sound for his single “Where You Left Me (My Lonely World).” It is downtempo with a lead piano melody tracing an impressionistic emotional sketch of a broken heart waiting for the worst of the pain to wriggle out and dissipate into the mists of time and new experiences. The soft bass line accents and propels the song in an organic progression that flows smoothly with a flare of guitar as a second melody with the piano. Like some of the most interesting music of the past forty plus years the song blurs the line between jazz, hip-hop and the avant-garde. The dusky soulfulness of the vocals speak to a soul weariness having come from dark places ready to move forward again. The track comes from the album Journey to the Soul and Back Again out March 2019 and you can listen to the rest of the album on the project’s Bandcamp page. Listen to the single below and watch its beautiful music videos comprised almost of water colors as animation. You can also follow The Secret Chord at any of the links provided.