The mood that prevails at the end of “Souls Tango In Dead Cities” I wanted to pick up at the beginning of the next track and thus realize an almost flowing transition to “A Fading Memory”.

In this track, on the one hand, I wanted to use strings as the main elements, because I’ve never heard a house track where strings are the main element instead of synths and this idea appealed to me, on the other hand, I wanted to make a song that captures the feeling of forgetting and write a requiem, so to speak, for all the beautiful forgotten moments of our lives. For this I used a recording I made on a summer day at a lake where I was staying with my ex-girlfriend and having a nice time, some other people were there too, some children were playing in the background. I built this recording in after the atmospheric intro, which consists of an increasingly glitchy piano melody and building vocal textures that are also glitchy, meant to sound like you are being drawn into a world of thought. I made this recording sound as if it was being played from an old tape recorder, and I blurred details so that you could no longer make out any spoken words, to symbolize that you might still remember the rough setting, frame, or feeling of a past situation, but no exact details. I also chose just for this track a situation that I would have definitely long forgotten again without the work and integrating it into this track, as it has been nothing of outstanding importance, just a pleasant summer day, as there are (hopefully) some in a human life, which are then (unfortunately) quite quickly forgotten again.

For the drop, I recorded a long string arrangement that builds and transforms. The melody is meant to evoke a sense of nostalgia. The slower tempo is also meant to convey a worn “hanging on to the past” feeling.

In the outro I adapted an arrangement idea I heard from one of my favorite bands “Gregor Samsa”, I tried to recreate a similar sound as heard in “Makeshift Shelters” and at the same time add a similar piano sound as heard in “Abutting, Dismantling”. The outro dissolves and goes smoothly into the next track.