A dark atmospheric track I somehow managed to execute, with layer after layer after layer added (similar to Amazonas), I created this! Establishing atmosphere in music is hard for me to do in my humble opinion, so I'm very proud of this track.

Black Swan started from an idea for a worser-sounding version of this I had where it was just a simple beat playing over that choppy-sounding synth thing you hear throughout the track, but the choppiness was deliberately out of tune with the music. I recorded the choppy sound while turning the LFO dial on an otherwise unchoppy and had it loop, which is what you hear define this track. There was no atmosphere intended (adding reverb to the bass plucks was an unintentional master stroke in my opinion) and I still can’t believe I made this.

Very similar to "Island within an Island", which I released last week, this track was made before the coronavirus outbreak happened (September 8, 2019), but was renamed and styled to reflect the times again. I love multiple meanings, so I called this "Black Swan" to have three meanings: 1, because the coronavirus is said to be a "black swan event", 2, it's a dark-sounding track so "Black Swan" would really fit, and 3: my state Western Australia, whose symbol is a black swan (black swans are native here), is pretty much isolated from the rest of Australia now.

So just like Island within an Island, Black Swan has been repurposed to convey that feeling of already living in an isolated city (populated with black swans), but now with regional travel restricted. Before it was called Black Swan, it was called "Deepfake" and then "Non Sequitur"; my tracks go through several name changes before I find a name I'm satisfied with and fits the track.