By JulianMOCs julian-scaini SoundCloud YouTube YouTube JulianMOCs1 Twitter ← Symphony of Skaia Previous track by this artist.
Released 4/13/2025.
Duration: 2:36.

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Artist commentary:

Szkraft220:

While I pity Aradia for not doing much of anything important past-act 5, I always really liked the role she took on in the vastness of The Furthest Ring. Finally being able to be happy and trying to make eternity a little less miserable for all the alternate timeline ghosts, I just think it really suits her and I always enjoyed her appearances in the second half of the comic. Whenever she talks about being happy, I'm happy (i really like aradia guys shes soooooo coooooooooool)

But, between act 5 and act 6 I read Problem Sleuth! And in that comic there is a certain figure with a very simmilar role to act 6 Aradia! Ever since I first realised this comparison I kept coming back to this idea in my head of Death and Aradia guiding/entertaining/consoling the dead as a duo! It was really the very first thing I thought of when trying to brainstorm an art piece for this album! I get so giddy at the idea of them interacting... So I drew them playing Connect 4!

I wanted to cram as much as I could think of in this piece, the bottom being a reference to the lotuses the afterlife is made out of, alongside skulls and tentacles, evocative of the horrorterrors. The top of the frame has bubbles and the background has horrorterrors because of course, and the aurora borealis is there because.. damn I HAD a reason, but I forgot what it was... Sollux gets to hang out too, because I love them. If you look closely we also have the two insect professors from Problem Sleuth (and bonus pages). I just think they're neat characters not enough people think about and they're already sorta all over the place.

There are more details I could list out, but I don't want to describe absolutelly everything, I've rambled enough. Point is I'm really attached to the concept of this piece and I think Julian did a stellar job making a cozy song that fit its premise! :D

JulianMOCs:

I wanted to create a song that felt familiar to the listener even though they've never heard it. Almost like the type of song you would find on an old cassette you picked up from a thrift shop, or downloaded on some forum way back when. You don't know who made it, but for some reason it never left you. This sort of aesthetic of a song trying to be remembered is very fascinating to me, and I thought it matched the context of the artwork very well.

The song itself was created with a bunch of random sequences that came to me naturally, almost as if creating a bar for the melody was like dropping a fishing line into my mind, though I reeled in far too many boots before completing the song.