Featured Tune: "PTSD: Paris-Tokyo Suborbital Departures" from Marc Soucy
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Jetlagged Dreams and Jazz in Orbit
Marc Soucy’s “PTSD: Paris-Tokyo Suborbital Departures” feels less like a song and more like a boarding pass to a destination you’ve only ever visited in your imagination. It’s got the texture of a memory, hazy, surreal, and yet hyper-real in its detail. Soucy bends genre and time, layering tropical jazz with futuristic tones that hum like the engines of a supersonic spacecraft. This isn't background music, it's a full-body experience, and once you're buckled in, there's no turning back.
The track plays with atmosphere like a filmmaker with light, smooth sax-style tones melt into ambient hums, and subtle percussive elements mimic the rhythm of a city that never stops moving. You can practically see the flickering terminal lights, the quiet rush of jet-setters, the gravity-defying promise of a half-hour Paris-to-Tokyo ride. But underneath the sleek, neon-drenched soundscape, there's a pulse of unease, just enough to keep your ears alert and your mind spinning.
And that’s what makes “PTSD” such a captivating ride. It’s beautiful, yes but it also carries the subtle weight of disorientation, of traveling so fast you lose sense of where you came from. It leaves you somewhere between past and future, grounded and airborne. Soucy doesn’t just produce music, he builds worlds. And this one is worth visiting more than once.