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Released 8/15/2012.
Duration: 4:04.

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Tracks that Firefly Cloud references:

• Doctor by Buzinkai and Clark Powell

Tracks that reference Firefly Cloud:

From Fandom:

• Electric Fireflies by Thomas Ibarra
• Firefly Storm by Riki Tsuji
• Pipe Dream by Kanishka

From Additional Tracks:

• Firefly Cloud Remix by Clark Powell

Tracks that sample Firefly Cloud:

From Additional Tracks:

• Firefly Cloud Remix by Clark Powell

Flashes & games that feature Firefly Cloud:

• [S] Dad: Find your son.

Artist commentary:

Erik Scheele:

So after a quick burst of events and some luck, John finds himself in LOWAS, the Land of Wind and Shade. Everything's dark, except for the stars above, but as we found out, they were really fireflies trapped in the clouds. This was one of the concepts I latched onto rather hard with this piece, the mass of sparkling and blinking above John as he traipsed about. I've been lucky enough to live in a more rural area for most of my life, and being able to watch the stars was always great, so I could only ever imagine what LOWAS's clouds looked like.

Anyway. I kept the sparkling mainly to the piano, higher register work with some delay making a nice twinkling effect. I'd also just gotten some wonderful "piano in an attic for 80 years" samples, which came with a large variety of inner-piano works, like tapping or heavy strokes of the strings, and I sprinkled those rather liberally in places to try and get the effect of thunder. (After all, what sort of lightning storms could a firefly cloud have, anyway?)

And of course, there's one or two Doctor quotes in there just because.