Rolling over

I have a new song online! It’s called Rolling over and you can download it for free by right-clicking the link. You can share the song freely with anyone you like, but a few restrictions apply for other kinds of use. For details, check this out:

Rolling over by Rainhat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

The song tells the true story about a car accident I was in when I was younger. We were on our way home from my grandparents’ place early one morning. They live out in the woods and the roads out there are all these really narrow, zigzagging kind of gravel roads. Our driver looked down for just a second to do something with the car radio, but it turned out to be one second too much. When she looked up again, the car was just feet away from the side of the road and the road was turning right. She yanked the wheel, desperately trying to keep us on the road, but this just made the rear end of the car slide out to the left and off the road. The sides of the road fall quite steeply down into deep ditches, so the car started sliding on its undercarriage on the edge of the road. The car then crashed into this huge boulder, mostly buried in the gravel at the side of the road. It wasn’t sticking up out of the ground enough to stop our car, only to catapult the car into the air and make it start tumbling. We flipped over once in the air, landed, then flipped over again, before coming to a stop with the wheels pointing down and with the rear end of the car in the ditch. Miraculously, all three of us in the car survived and sustained only small bruises, but the car looked more like a raisin than a car.

Finishing this song took quite a bit longer than I had hoped, largely because I just couldn’t get a quiet moment for recording the vocals. One of our neighbors started building something in his garden, and at first I thought it was like a small shed or something, but I realized a few days ago that he’s actually building an extension to his house, more than doubling the size of the house. He seems to be an industrious kind of guy, so he’s been hammering away at his house from 9 in the morning until 9 in the evening. On top of this, the neighbor on the other side started adding to his house as well, building a new balcony. So there has been a whole lot of hammering going on. My large condensor microphone is sensitive enough to pick up the hammering quite clearly even through walls and doors, so I haven’t been able to record anything in a while.

So, check out the song and tell me what you think! Until next time…