Clear As Night

“Clear As Night” opens BackHOME like a descent: a slow, meditative piano arpeggio.

Originally released in 2018 as Svalbard (part of the original HOME project), the core idea returned years later with a new soul.

It wasn’t written to soundtrack crisis, but it became inseparable from one: as the global shock of 2020 met personal disorientation. The piece captured a chapter when one is forced to see in the dark.

A chance encounter reshaped the arrangement. Singer Clara was recorded on a winter night in a public park with nothing more than a USB microphone and a phone. Clara was supposed to add a vocal line and ended up becoming the core of the piece.

Her voice became a texture: delicate, almost whispered, then multiplied into a choir through layered takes and long reverb.

What began as stillness and solitude becomes density, breath, and human grain.

Clara returned to RecDivision Studios in Madrid to properly capture the details of her voice.

Clear As Night is the album’s initiation: cautious, quiet, and luminous at the edges.

The beginning of a long, dark tunnel.