Take Me To Church but it’s EPIC || Gideon The Ninth Animatic || Hozier Cover by Reinaeiry
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Published 2024-05-18
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Read below for the music and animatic process!
This has been one of the longest passion projects I’ve worked on, and I’ve LOVED every second. It's been my absolute honour to work with some of the most talented musicians and artists on this, and everyone involved has put their heart and souls into this project over the last few months. I could not be more PROUD of how it all turned out. Hehe. Yay. 🥳
⚔️ MUSIC ⚔️
I’ve always yearned for a Phantom of The Opera style orchestration of this song. In late 2023, I pitched the idea to my favourite instrumentalist and multi-talented friend, Kāru. The moment he started working on the orchestration, I knew it was going to be magic. PS. can you hear those church bells ringing in the background? because church... it’s in the name. Finger-guns. Wink.
On the vocal end of things, I had written into the very bones (haha) of the vocal arrangement to have a HUGE worship-style gospel choir alongside the leads. I experimented with three different live-choirs before finally landing on Itunu whose sound I truly, truly loved. I had the best time ever recording the leads for this song, and even though I always love the process of recording and arranging vocals, this holds a very special place in my heart. Hozier is truly an artist like no other, and he’s my absolute favourite lyricist of all time so it was just a pleasure and a half to work on this.
⚔️ ART ⚔️
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir!! If you find the concept of sassy necromancer lesbians fighting in fantasy space (+ so, so much more) to be an interesting premise, I promise you won’t regret picking this series up (not sponsored, this entire project was made by fans for fans! I truly am just a nerd at heart)
I finished Gideon The Ninth late 2023 and was immediately obsessed. An idea then fell out the sky and stabbed me through the chest. What if I got a GTN animatic to accompany my cover? The more I thought about the similarities between the story and the song, the more it made sense. So, I crossed my heart and reached out to @cadencelewisart to request a commission! She’s a huge fan of the books as well and I think that love and care really shines through the final scenes. I could not be more pleased with the animatic and I hope you all enjoy it too!
You may recognise a few iconic poses such as “The Creation Of Adam”, "The Last Supper", and so, so much more! Head on over to my instagram to see some Behind-The-Scenes action for this animatic!
✨ CREDITS ✨
Lead Vocals, Vocal Arrangement: Reinaeiry
Instrumentalist: Kāru
Animatic Artist: Cadence Lewis
Gospel Choir: Itunu
Mix & Master: Mike Butler
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All Comments (21)
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✨ STREAM NOW ✨ ffm.to/eirytmtc Read more about the process of making this in the description! 🌈
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THIS IS INSANE RAAAAAH WHEN I THOUGHT YOU COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER YOU DROP A LOCKED TOMB ANIMATIC?!
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i just had a religious experience???!?!!! what the fuckkkk. also when gideon shows up behind her surrounded by all two hundred of the ninth kids i just started crying
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ONE FLESH ONE END
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That last chorus HIT wow. The art and song work together so well I was grinning like an idiot the whole way through
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the way that everyone who dies turns into a red siluette when they die, but then Gideon is just on a red background. immersed in death but still present. the SYMBOLISM
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REINAEIRY? GIDEON THE NINTH???? ANIMATIC?! Absolutely deceased
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ok but reinaeiry’s voice should be registered as a weapon because it does lethal things to my heart 😩♥️😮💨
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WE MAKING IT OUT OF SNURCH WITH THIS ONE ‼️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
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LISTEN I've been saying this was a Locked Tomb song for AGES and I can think of no better way to be proven right!!
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I AM SOBBING. That last chorus with Gideon appearing behind Harrow along with [redacted]... Both music and animation really sold the emotion of that scene. I will never recover. 😭💚
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4:01 Perfect encapsulation of Harrow's guilt and Gideon's importance to her, my god
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everything that happens after 3:45 is absolutely brutal, but knowing the plot of Harrow the Ninth and hearing 'take me' screamed over and over with heart-rending desperation is like a rapier to the throat. Incredible arrangement decision
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SOMEONE CALL A NECROMANCER FOR MY SOUL HAS LEFT MY BODY GODDAMN THIS IS INCREDIBLE
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This entire production hit me through the heart like an iron fence post How dare you
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I AM LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY FOAMING AT THE MOUTH FOR THIS.
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Tlt and hozier, my loves....this was truly a dream project. Thank you, Eiry!!!! Your music is incredible
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the shot of harrow and alecto switching to the pool scene is making me so insane
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That image of Gideon at about 4:19: "Saint Gideon, First Flower of the Ninth House, Cavalier to our honored Reverend Daughter, Harrowhark Nonagesimus."
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i don't usually say this but i PRAY someone has shown this to tamsyn, i know our former tumblr queen would appreciate this more than all of us combined
