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Riding a Rainbow

by Joshua Blum

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This track has been in the works for a long time, though I didn't know it. There’s this section of the fantasy novel I wrote, The Thirteenth Hour, where the main character, Logan, who is shipwrecked and bereft of anything to help him, encounters a magical flying hoverboard that he can communicate with that can play also play music as it flies. When I was originally writing this scene years ago, I was listening to the 80s new wave band When in Rome and their song, "The Promise." That was the scene I imagined when I heard the song. In fact, if I recall right, I listened to the song, imagined the scene, probably before I'd even fleshed out the story, then wrote the story around this scene.

So I’ve always intended to make an upbeat, fast paced synthpop song for that segment of the book. I decided to make this track with a steady beat at 120 bpm with the chords of The Thirteenth Hour theme in the key of C – more of less the same chords used in “The Promise” and “Forever Young” by Alphaville (another one of my favorites from that era and still, now).

For the coverart, pixelart Logan is flanked by a number of fellow fliers from the 80s and 90s movies that influenced his character (The Flight of the Navigator, Back to the Future, The Rocketeer, The Neverending Story, The Last Starfighter).

You can hear more about the production of this track on episode 402 of The Thirteenth Hour podcast, available on all major podcasting platforms.

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released May 8, 2023
composition, keyboards, mixing, coverart - Joshua Blum

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Author, illustrator, occasional songwriter, and fan of 80s fantasy and scifi movies.

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