Liminal Dream - Gradient

I made this song on decemeber 10 2016, saved a backup on may 30 2017, saved a draft mp3 of a better mix (two years producing experience difference) on 2/17/19. the 2019 progress was completely lost when I lost my files in february this year which was really annoying. I'm terrible at being responsible apparently. what's more annoying is that there's another song on this album that also had a lot of progress added to it that needs to be restarted, but that's another story. for a long time I thought i was going to end up adding vocals to this but as of today, this morning, I was listening to it and realizing how much I like it without vocals at all. for the most part I imagine liminal dream songs to be instrumental unless I absolutely know that they need vocals. this project is more of like wordless stream of consciousness, abstract imagery and soundscapes, and also I can make and complete so much more music when I'm not worried about vocals because that is the part that takes the longest to finish. this song is so old that I don't even want to touch it anymore. I like the way it is now in its simplicity, and I don't think it needs anything else to be any more evocative in any way. you might notice that this sounds kinda like my sadness album "rain" and that's because it was created at the exact same time. I was experimenting with the exact same guitar tones that ended up on "rain songs". although rain was released in 2018, the music was created from late 2016 through the beginning of 2017, somewhere around spring. the only real reason this song itself wasn't included on that album is because as soon as I created it I knew it sounded EXACTLY like snowfall. this song sounds like snowfall on a winter's night. the session file name was actually "snow cminor demo". this is obviously nothing to do with Rain, so despite this and Rain coming from very similar sonic realms, the imagery and sentiment is completely different and always deserved a different space to live. around this same time I also composed 2 other songs, a sort of "winter" feeling album for Évval (now liminal dream). clearly to this day it's not finished yet and is one of the many, many albums I started and still need to finish. I don't actually know what this album is going to be called, the place holder name is literally just "winter album". the title "gradient" I came up with one day (i believe during that winter, if not the following winter) I was walking outside and looking towards the horizon, and watching the color gradients in the sky as you move away from the horizon towards the stars. in this case monochrome greyscale gradients. this simple image is so beautiful, and also nostalgic. when I was a little kid in elementary school I used to play around with the gradients on powerpoint projects and it was always so beautiful to look at. this song has no real story or concept beyond that, just this dreamlike picture of the gradients in the sky from the horizon into the cosmos in winter. I got very excited listening to the 2019 draft bounce that I came directly to my computer to publish it on patreon, and that was when I realized that I lost my progress and had to restart the mix from the 2017 version. because of this, by the time I release the rest of the album I might have fixed a couple of things here, since there's a chance I'm rushing (the fact that i had a clear intention of publishing the song this morningmade me not able to accept the possiblity of not doing so). the song isn't too complicated to mix, I just tried to match the way the 2019 version sounded. I don't have the patience to cross check over different speakers and headphones, but like I said, if I decide i want to fix something in the future I'll do that. but this is perfectly listenable right now for you guys