Steps in the Night (disquiet0653)

For this challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0653-break-a-rule/67833 "Break a rule"? Honestly I don't have any unbreakable rule, after so many years working on different projects with so many different people I learned to go for anything, a good idea can bu hidden behind it) . But: on my main job for films/TV/etc I am often specifically instructed to 'record with a click track". For many reasons having a steady tempo all over a piece of music makes things easier for engineers mixing the music to the video footage, editing, cut/paste etc Nowadays sound engineers doesn't work like they used to when I started with a console as they main environment, with knobs, faders and racks of hardware. Now they face a computer and a screen and they love (they need) to have that tempo grid to found their markers and reference points. So providing music with no click can be a problem, they start asking directors/producers "can we use any other music instead?". You don't want that... Anyway: These track was created 4 years ago for Universal Production Music and was rejected. They specifically ask for music "with a click" . This one, for a "mystery" pitch, wasn't used and returned to me and I just shelved because the use of the click didn't work , the mysterious part of it was gone when each stanza coming exactly at the expected moment (after 2 beats or 4 beats, always). It was too predictable. I reworked it today for this junto, just changing the spaces between sentences to have a no-tempo gap, sometimes stanzas are moved left to happen sooner than expected, sometimes moved right to have a proper "fermata". Now it is better. I'm pretty sure that, if back then I dared to break the "click/constant tempo" rule. I played piano, accordion, upright bass and some Xylophone. Included some orchestral samples. I used a photo by Luca Bravo. Edited and mixed July 4th 2024, shared here for the first time.