Anton Charr

So the vocal production was very much a product of the song writing. In the first period of the song, our main character is unsure of where he is, lost possibly, his head is swimming as he slowly figures out why he is on his quest and where he is.

That is why the opening verses feature a doubled lead vocal with effects panned to either side and in quite poor time with each other. I wanted to give the impression that our character isn’t in control of the song but is just trying to hang on. Then as the realization hits in the lead-up to the guitar solo, things get quiet and we switch to a single centered vocal, quietly recognizing what is happening.

The actual moment of realization is purely emotional without linguistic processing and is the guitar solo, but we’ll get into that tomorrow.

The first thing I wanted to talk about was the songwriting process for this one. I usually really agonize over songs and it takes me weeks or months, my previous release Hold On To took five years to finish.
But Six Feet Under wasn’t really like that. I had the chords and the opening line “I don’t understand, I don’t think I want to” for a while but one evening I was given the inspiration for the follow up. Once I had that, the rest came in a flood within 10 minutes.
It was a story which very much came without thinking of any background or inspiration, but when the time came to shoot the music video, I told the director to think of it as the inner dialogue of Romeo after he had died, searching for Juliet, who, in this version, had faked her death but didn’t reciprocate the su***de after waking up. He made the wrong choice, and is trying to find consolation that at least she didn’t end up dead as well.

The writing also played into the vocal production choices (with which some have really taken issue), but that’ll be for tomorrow.

Once again, you can find the music video here:

https://youtu.be/lDxnHPYgfvs?si=Y3hGBYnVPSyenasq

You can also find all my music including the above mentioned previous release Hold On To at AntonCharr.com

Six Feet Under This is the Music Video for my song "Six Feet Under" featuring the Studio Version of the audio. You can stream all my music wherever you stream by just follo...

Six Feet Under Single release EP now available for purchase on Bandcamp. This Bandcamp version features an extra instrumental track not found on streaming services. Please consider supporting me directly. It means the world to me and mine.
https://antoncharr.bandcamp.com/album/six-feet-under-ep

So that happened… thanks !!

Happy to announce the long awaited studio version of the song Six Feet Under, first released two years ago as a live performance on YouTube.

The audio will be live in a few hours/days, depending on your streaming service of choice. You can pre-save the link and it will automatically add it to your library once it is live.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/antoncharr/six-feet-under