(Re) Walk the Earth - Previously Known as Aeva and the Waving World (Patreon)

Hey all! It's been a minute since I shared a reimagined track since I was working on Kairos. Now that it's out into the world, I'll have more time to jump back into reimagined tracks. I have a new Echo of the Night episode coming soon as well. Catching up! Thanks for sticking around and understanding that I'm not a machine ha.

You may be wondering why the track title is changed from Aeva and the Waving World to Walk the Earth...

Back in 2020 I was in a meeting with some music supervisors who worked exclusively on trailers. One of them had heard the song Aeva and the Waving World from Hours and freaked out, saying they thought it would be killer in an action trailer. However, they were a little (to put it mildly) confused about the verse lyrics. “Walk the Earth” in the chorus had a pretty universal tone to it, but being that the lyrics are based around the narrative that includes a ghost child, a bucket of blood, a person who mutilates their face so they can read minds, and a kid who, upon realizing the world is a crooked place, builds machines to cause destruction against his enemies, they were a little lost on how that can relate in movie trailers not consisting of those story elements ha. So I used the core of the song — owning your actions and rising up against the powers that be, and rewrote the lyrics to fit that universal approach. And then of course I trailerized the structure of the song.

At the time I wasn't familiar with the 3 act trailer structure that I use now, but I implemented the dynamics that were most important.

Walk the Earth is pretty much Aeva and the Waving World without the Hours concept. It still holds some themes from Hours, but doesn’t revolve around a very specific science fiction story we’ve all come to either love or think is decent but could be better if plot holes were cleaned up (yours truly). Anyway, the point is I wanted to share Walk the Earth with all of you!