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That's The Spirit! (Single)

by Watermark High

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This song was initially a soundtrack cue for a film I was working on in 2018. I always thought it had potential to be a cool standalone Watermark High track if it was fleshed out a bit more. In December last year, I decided to revisit it. It’s been wholly reproduced and mixed since then but basically, the first 1 minute and 50 seconds was the original structure. Everything after that I added recently to finish the track off.

It has quite an upbeat and positive energy, which at the time of working on this iteration, I wasn’t connecting with. I was feeling a bit down at the time, so I felt this emotional conflict to the point where I almost left it for another time and to move on to working on something else.

Around the same time, I found the stock photo (unsplash.com/photos/3UeSNUlDKKY) which I used on the original cover and the title “That’s the Spirit!” popped into my head. It’s a beautiful photograph, but it felt a bit ridiculous to me. I’m sure there’s some history to the whole “rose in the mouth” thing, I just don’t know. I just imagined the process of shooting that photo: the photographer asking the boy to put a rose stem in his mouth (arguably, a stick)…and how confusing and random that must have been for the kid? And it’s pretty funny because you can see it on his face.

I just felt a connection between the photo and the process of me dealing with this “forced positivity”, and then the tongue-in-cheek, slightly sarcastic title. It made it feel right, so I soldiered on and finished it. It resulted in quite an interesting structure I thought because it’s pretty evident for me to hear where I picked up where the original left off. There’s a definite tone change at around 1:50 and a more ambient and slightly more melancholy midsection before jumping back into the initial idea’s spurt of energy at the end.

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released February 7, 2020
Produced, mixed and mastered by Watermark High.

Also available on all major streaming platforms: bit.ly/wh-thatsthespirit

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Watermark High Boston, Massachusetts

Boston based South African beat maker / producer.

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