James B. Pollack · 2015

Painted Wings Over Dead Country

116 BPMF major2:14Ableton Live 9.0.48 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Painted Wings Over Dead Country" by James B. Pollack. 116 BPM, F major, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 8 Ableton sample references. "Painted Wings Over Dead Country" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Beasts, Little, Big, and Ka. It points toward Crowley's recurring animal, bird, and metamorphic imagery. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

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Production Notes
  • Core DJ metadata: 116 BPM, F major, 2:14.
  • Ableton source: project "jul8jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 236 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 28.
  • Ableton scan found 8 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Piano / Keys.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Zebra2.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
116 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
116.0
Key
F major
Duration
2:14
Ableton project
jul8jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
8
Plugins
Zebra2
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 28
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 8 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Painted Wings Over Dead Country" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Beasts, Little, Big, and Ka. It points toward Crowley's recurring animal, bird, and metamorphic imagery. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

Motif signalBeastsLittle, BigKa
Research source: Beasts referenceResearch source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: John Crowley author site: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Painted Wings Over Dead Country, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Beasts, Ka, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Piano / Keys, Lean Arrangement, Zebra2, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 116 BPM.

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