Firem is the name of a planet in Nintendo DS puzzle game Meteos - which inspired me to swipe an online computer simulation of Earth being hit by a meteor and use it for accompanying visuals. So there's definitely some kind of album-themed, interstellar, apocalyptic angst type-thing going on...
That low-slung seven-note riff has more than a whiff of Black Sabbath about it. That's because Black Sabbath were one of my formative musical influences. Growing up in a dog-rough, drafty old terraced house, alive with creaks and clunks and fleeting shadows (I later found out it was overdue for slum clearance) led to a spooked-out obsession with 'the paranormal'. So, Mr Tony Iommi's growling, reverb-drenched doom-rock was the ideal soundtrack to those twilight trips to the outside toilet.
By glamorous contrast, the remixed version, on the 'Stay At Home' EP, was partly written in downtime in a posh hotel room at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
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Chaps - as I think I've remarked to both of you elsewhere, "Firem" is a stunning composition that manages to evoke so much emotion from me: whimsy, loss, the urge to fight, god-I'm-glad-to-be-alive. An utterly welcome random track to take me to a different place in the midst of a shitty stint at work.
Simply gorgeous :}
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