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I wrote this piece as a follow-up to my original song “Forward”, first released on the channel in 2019! Originally, I had a pretty detailed write-up of what each section of the song is supposed to represent, and I’ll leave that to you if you want to go to the video description of the original version and read it! In summary, though, this song represents the flow of energy over time. As we wake up and go to sleep, there is a rhythm present during our days that ebbs and flows. One commenter on the original Flow video also described their experience listening to Flow with certain sections of the song mapped to different points during one’s lifetime, which was really fascinating to me, since I hadn’t thought about this song with that sort of time scale before - though the song is definitely about the passage of time in some way.

When I released the 2019 version of this song, my instrumental palette had been growing for a couple of years, but it wasn’t to the size where I thought it could capture all the colors that I wanted to express for a song like this. This song is supposed to be big and vast! After all, it’s describing something as big as the flow of time and energy… that’s pretty big to me. Because of that, when it came time to select songs to put on this album, I knew that doing a re-arranged, fuller version of Flow was high on my list. In this version, I was able to get so many more colors added that I had really wanted to previous: an expanded woodwind section, a full brass section (!!!), and a real string section, since the previous version only had MIDI strings! In terms of the horizontal arrangement of the song, I think the structure is nearly exactly the same… but to me, the tone colors and orchestration just feel so much more vivid and bright, and they tell the story I was trying to get across in a much better way!

I’ll share with you some little bits of musical symbolism in this song! The octave Bb’s in the piano that start the song continue metronomically throughout the entire piece (though occasionally they do shift to B naturals, and maybe some A’s?), and are intended to represent the flow of time. They’re like seconds ticking away, though this song isn’t at a BPM where they line up to be exactly a second in length. I wanted this pulsating energy to continue throughout the entire piece to represent how time never stops, and just keeps marching. The brass chorale in the middle of the piece (previously saxes) is meant to represent a pause in consciousness. If we’re talking about the time scale of the piece as if it were a single day, this is when I would be taking my mid afternoon nap LOL - that’s why the music goes rubato, but the time in the piano keeps going!

I hope these details and long explanations don’t come across as overly pedantic to you, the listener, haha! You’re free to completely ignore my explanation and listen to the song however you like! However, I know I like to read little backstories of the pieces of music I listen to, so maybe you’ll find some value in this. Please enjoy!


Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Synth Programming, Percussion - ‪@insaneintherainmusic‬
Electric Guitar - Josh Vasquez (‪@XnarkyVGM‬ )
Piano - ‪@robkovacsmusic‬
Electric Bass - ‪@NicoMendozaMusic‬
Drums - ‪@DomPalombiMusic‬
Strings - Budapest Strings

Composed & Arranged by Carlos Eiene
Co-produced by Andrew Sumabat, Josh Vasquez, Rob Kovacs, Nico Mendoza & Dom Palombi
Recorded July 12-13 2022 at Avast Recording Company in Seattle, WA
Engineered by Cosmo Rossi
Mixed & Mastered by Carlos Eiene
Album Art Photography by Sebastian Tseng (Alpha 1 Studio)
Album Art Design by Carlos Eiene & Sebastian Tseng

Camera Operators - Peter Gillette, Ro Panuganti, Allison Martin, Katey Ritchey
Video Editing - Peter Gillette
Color Grading - Peter Gillette