A short guitar piece born from an eerie roadside thought
This new guitar sketch—fragment, really—is called Flight Lanes of Morphed Names. It came together right after I wrote a short lyrical piece called Middle of the Roadway. This one’s about 20 seconds long, but it holds some strange weight.The other, a little eerie. A few of the lyrical highlights from that one:
“In the middle of the roadway / there’s a broken mast”
“Fault no lines of roadway / quake-filled seismograph”
The idea of fractured direction and ghostlike structure carried straight into the guitar piece that followed. Flight Lanes picks up the thread, but in a more abstract, instrumental way. Think flickers of syncopation, breath-like pauses, tension that never lands fully. Not a melody so much as a shape moving through static.
About Middle of the Roadway
I’ll be posting Middle of the Roadway soon— it plays with dynamic elements even in that tight space, although a bit longer than this one. It’s lyrical, but minimal. Kind of like a single verse left behind on a roadside wall. Once that was written, I felt something else still needed to speak—so this guitar piece came out right after, like its shadow or echo.
Why the title?
Flight Lanes of Morphed Names felt right because it suggests motion that doesn’t follow its original plan. Something renamed mid-flight. It captures that unsettled feeling I had after writing Middle of the Roadway—that sense of continuing on, but not quite sure under what name or shape.
Listen & wait for the companion piece
If this one resonates, Middle of the Roadway is its sister song—short, sharp, and coming soon.
Thanks for listening and walking with me through these weird sonic paths.
—Josh
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