November Choice Video (1 of 2) - Calypso vs Hermes (Patreon)

Hello my friends!! Here is the first of two November Choice videos! This is a snippet from the cut song Belong to You, and it shows Calypso confronting Hermes in order to stop him from releasing Odysseus.

This Hermes section was written before Dangerous and Wouldn't You Like existed. Originally, Hermes's appearances were limited to a quick, spoken rhythm section in the second half of Puppeteer, and this section in Belong to You. I later would scrap this moment between Calypso, Odysseus, and Hermes because I felt it undid some of the subtlety and character development we see in the final section of Love in Paradise (which I have not shown y'all yet) and because I felt I was missing an opportunity to make Hermes more memorable. So, I ended up writing Not Sorry for Loving You, where Calypso mentions Hermes very briefly, and the scene focuses more on Odysseus and Calypso. Then, I went ahead and wrote Dangerous to have more fun with Hermes, and that sparked me to remove Hermes's section from Puppeteer and instead write Wouldn't You Like.

The orchestration of Belong to You was very fun to make. Verse 1 having hand pans and steel drums for Calypso, Verse 2 modulating the key downwards by a half step and then switching to a nylon stringed guitar for Odysseus, and then the 3rd chunk of the song having fun sound effects, a lyre, choral vocals, and a mixture of the instruments from verses 1 and 2, make this song have a very diverse toolset.

The intention of this scene was to have a tragic ending for Calypso, but the idea of Hermes speed blitzing her to release Odysseus came out much more comical than I intended, and it did feel a little weird trying to create a short action scene with Calypso. I am happy with the decision to scrap this song and Appetite, as it led to the creation of Not Sorry for Loving You (which is one of the songs I am most proud of having written ever), Dangerous, and Wouldn't You Like.

This video was made with the permission of Barbara Wangui as Calypso. Please keep in mind that usually I am unable to use other vocalists' voices in Patreon videos, and that this was a fortunate exception. :)