Omnesia’s “Days and Nights”: A Future, Vintage Heartbreaker That Blends Time, Genre, and Emotion
“Days and Nights” by Oakland duo Omnesia sees the duo from Oakland continuing to create a unique style indelible to any other, an amazing mixture of future, vintage rock, indie dance, electro, pop, nu wave, and prog, which paradoxically could be considered both retro and forward at the same time. The point of the track is mainly drawn from the most direct human experiences: yearning, solitude, and the sweetness of love with the return of the one you dearly miss. Yet Omnesia doesn’t simply lay that narrative out before us; it fashions an entire cinematic universe around it.
The song sounds warm and comforting with the bricks of an old warehouse in Oakland as its hollow, echoing natural backdrop, which is rarely the case with a modern digital production. Drummer Eric Slick ex-Adriann Belew, Ween), after listening to the demo, was so inspired that he decided to come and record the first take of his part, which could not be better, as the sound reverberating off the fired, clay walls is what sets the very essence of the song. Bassist Stephen Goodwin creates a peculiar but catchy bassline that goes perfectly with the rest of the band, while keyboardist/producer Tal Ariel makes the song arrangement rich by adding strings and circuitous synths. The band performed the core recording live, without using a click track, thus “Days and Nights” is human in its nature, which unrecognizably fluctuates like genuine emotion.
At the core is Medella Kingston’s vocal, which is superbly identifiable, quite androgynous, lovely, and very captivating due to harmonizing with the smoothest and widest vocal range, which transports the listener into nostalgia as well as being strange at the same time. Their voice takes the sadness of parting and mixes it with the joyful expectation of meeting again, thus reflecting the lyric’s “familiar yet unusual” structure.
The song’s complementary visual representation, which was conceived during the same time as the song, exudes an architectural energy of charm, worthy of Mary Tyler Moore, combined with the Planes, Trains & Automobiles film and TV series, style, travel, optimism, and respect for the past times. An absolute fit for Omnesia’s Future Vintage album concept, a place where one can find the characters, style, and plots interwoven subtly across 17 songs and 17 videos.
“Days and Nights” is a courageous pick that doesn’t allow itself to be confined by a single genre or timeline. It is a love story but not cloying, it is an experiment but doesn’t lose its heart, and has been realized by musicianship, which is more about the feeling than the flawless execution. In the case of Omnesia, it is more than just a song; it is a peek into the music world, which serves as the band’s escape, memory, and time travel simultaneously.
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