Crimson Waltz Sparse Minor Piece Track

Nearly three minutes of dark, minor-key waltz-flavoured music with almost no percussion, a sparse arrangement, a quiet mix and no fixed pulse to lock to.

For gothic and period drama, ballroom and masquerade scenes, unsettling dream sequences and dark fairy-tale content. The waltz shape is present in the phrasing rather than in any drum pattern.

Nearly three minutes at a hundred and thirty-six beats per minute — tied for the fastest tempo in the entire album, an unusual number for a piece built around a sparse, pulse-less waltz shape — in G minor. It closes the album holding four more extremes at once: the quietest recording, the lightest percussion, the least busy track by note events, and the darkest by spectral centroid, of the whole set.