BigBadBird
4 Freedoms

Released 26 August 2026

Transmissions No. 02

4 Freedoms

FDR's 1941 case for four human freedoms, eleven months before Pearl Harbor, over a slow, hypnotic groove.

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One-stop. One email clears both the composition and the master. Written, performed and owned outright, with no publisher registered. The archival speech is a public-domain government work, so there is no archive fee and no third-party clearance chase either.

Moods
stately, liturgical, hypnotic, resolute, archival, hopeful
Instrumentation
Slow live-feel groove under an archival spoken-word vocal. Live guitars, warm low end, sparse percussion, tape-worn texture.
Sync references
Second world war and mid-century archive, political and human-rights documentary, civil rights films, current-affairs titles, reflective closing sequences.
BPM
73
Key
Bb minor
Instrumental
Yes
Stems
On request
Pre-limiter master
Yes, 32-bit float
Edits available
Full length (1:45), Instrumental
ISRC
QT6682688507