Hi. There's some very weird technical problem going on for me with this track. It says it's 3:46 but when I play it and move to different points, it says it's about 20 minutes long. So, my time references are probably very wrong. This makes it much harder to give you an accurate comment. Anyway, I thought it was a cool piece of music, so here is my attempt at a review.
1:29 and now the groove is very similar to The Cinematic Orchestra's The Awakening Of A Woman, which is brilliant piece of music.
It's a ride-based drum groove I really like. Lots of space and very chilled out. Bass sounds a bit like a double bass.
2:15 and now the groove has got faster and the keyboards busier. Rhodes is the main thing here. Great and classic tone.
3:01 I prefer it when it drops back down into that cymbal groove.
This is some deep music a lot like Cinematic Orchestra, who I love.
I can't really hear any vocals in this. Where are they?
I know what you mean by this song being a 20min long track - in Windows Media Player it shows 21:52 - I will try to convert it again and fix that, thanks for pointing this.
I will re-upload the track soon.
Basically the bass groove was inspired by your 'Think big feel small' descending bass notes (here on slow 6/8 sections) - I guess it's a kind of a common jazz bass phrase anyway. I added ascending bass line on 4/4 faster sections - this metric combination is good and simply makes the track interesting and more 'fusion'.
There's just a little bit of the vocals here at 2:40: it says 'Time is the father of truth' or something like that. Wanted to add more vocals but I couldn't find something that will fit this song so only one short sentence.
The bass sound is from Kontakt virtual bass guitar layered with MrRay22 e piano bass. The Rhodes is from MrRay22 plugin as well - the monosynth solo is MinimougueVA plugin. Many effects added to the instruments (mostly EQ and reverbs, a lot of compression). I am not really happy with the soloing - I used only a standard midi controller keyboard and tried many times but because I do not really practise playing like this so I had to adjust some notes afterwards. The jazz drums are from EZ of course - some ethnic percussions from ferryterry and other percussive sounds to create more mouvement and some interesting colours.
I love this song from Cinematic Orchestra - after recording the bassline and e piano chords in 6/8 I realized it is quite similar to the beat from 'awakening of a woman'. Of course there's no real instruments on my track and I only tried to create an illusion of the live band performance. On the Cinematic Orchestra's song there's excellent and subtle instrumentation.
Many thanks for kind words and detailed comment. Nice to hear you liked my work. Alex
Thank you Stefano for some nice words. I used the 'french rap' here as well but I kept intentionally ignoring the proper timing. I do not think any artificial processing was really needed here. I agree this song is something like a happy 'mix of different voices' (which is a very accurate description of it haha).
Thanks again for your time and nice comment. Best to you, Alex
I always find ambient stuff really hard to make. It's difficult to get the sounds in the right places and keep it sounding natural so kudos for creating this spooky atmosphere. The first one would make a good back drop for a creepy horror movie scene. The second one's just started now and it has more of a spacey kind of atmosphere to it with that laser noise thing. It actually reminds me of some of Pink Floyds early stuff from a saucer full of secrets.
Track 3 now and we start off with yet more trippy atmospheres with delays and reverbs. I'm not sure but I think track four has just started. You create some really good soundscapes with interesting sounds. Really dark pads and nice explosion sounds going on, this ones got me thinking of the terminator because of the dark machine type noises and glitch sounds. It's pretty darn creepy.
Next track up and interesting use of the Rhodes in this one. What I like is that even though the tracks are all the same style it's easy to pick out one from the other as they all sound different. On to the final piece now and there's some great wailing guitars and feedback going on. You've proved with this track that you're good at coming up with soundscapes and it was definitely fun to listen to.
FR
thanks a lot FreeRadical!
I created almost all the sounds here using free vst's and 'Kontakt' instruments for metallic elements. I thought it would be really difficult to program and automate stuff to get the results like this actually but I played it all from the keyboard in a real time so in a sense it is just an improvised music.
The idea here was to make some corresponding sounds and create different musical 'events' happening at the same time on different levels inside each piece - a kind of a 'polyphonic' music. Not really a horror or comedy - I am not too much interested in that 'illustrative' aspect so far. Anyway it is really good to know that this music can trigger some concrete images.
Thank you again for your time and nice words FR- I really appreciate that. Alex
Hey Alex...love the space in this piece,it definitely shows your broad perceptive vision and tonal grasp,not to mention your keyboard skills...love it!...I will be going through your tracks diligently very shortly,and I know it's going to be a wonderful experience...ok,with reference to your review of my track,at the moment I am putting a new body on a custom fretless bass that I made,which will make it a totally acoustic toned instrument,no magnetic pickups,just a piezo saddle,I hope we can then collaborate on some music together as I know we have a few things in common...again this is a superb composition!.....a splendid collaborative effort with Ferryterry!...cheers Dave :)
thanks a lot Dave! I really appreciate that.
would be great to make some music with you. I will spend some moments tomorrow thinking of what I can share with you and eventually let you know about the ideas if only anything will appear of course.
thanks again for your nice comments.
Greetings, Alex
thank you Orlando. I put much effort on this so I do not know if it's experimental anymore eventhough I recorded all the sounds using only vst's and midi keyboard so it has still this free, improvised form. Thanks for checking this out. Alex
Hey Alex....definite fav here...love the cool yet funky vibe and the way you fused the instrumentation & beat together...I like the first 2 sections best I think but the whole thing is good listening in my book....more of a Latin vibe to the second section I think...while the 3rd part reflects more of a jazz vibe....It is a very unusual compositional approach to include the distinctively different styles in one mix...but it certainly makes for a most interesting listen...
thanks a lot Ed. really glad you liked this compilation. I agree - it's quite unusual and doesn't necessarily make sense as a whole stylistical suite of pieces. At least that way I could upload more tracks I made recently...
I am happy you enjoyed different vibes of these 4 tracks - I appreciate your listening and nice comments. Thanks again, Alex
Great work (as always) Alex. Very laid back. I haven't got round to listening to the tracks you e-mailed me yet but I intend to later on today, if not latest tomorrow. Keep up the good work my friend :) TT
sounding really good. I like your laid back style. The beats and percussion are excellent. As is the guitar. It's got a real authentic live feel to it and it's hard to believe that this is all done with virtual instruments. Reminds me a little of the doors. Nice break of silence and into the second part which has some nice glitchy drumming going on and some nice soloing. The third piece has a more psychadelic kind of feel to it with lots of nice backgrounds going on. Then we have the ambient grand finale which is very trippy.
This is a pretty epic tune but if i had to pick one i'd say part two was my favorite.
I enjoyed listening to this track.
FR
thanks a lot. this is indeed a bit unusual compilation: almost all 4 tracks are driven by my keyboard playing, even when I input pads. There's many loops used in the first one which makes it really fusion jazz/rock. Glad you liked the second track - there's no loops here, just a piece made entirely from scratch over simple chord progression. I used MrRay22 free e piano plugin for soloing (also on the first track) and added many effects to create ilusion of the live jam session. The solo was played real time of course but needed some adjustments afterwards to correspond better with the rest which is always possible when working with midi sequences. 2 last ambient tracks are probably my best takes so far on the genre - the inspiration was music from Robert Rich and Steve Roach.
Thanks again for your time and nice comment. I appreciate that. Alex
Loving the transition after (2:35) . To me its like visiting a chill club somewhere in the future. Very interesting composition you have here. Each new transition is like a teleport to various points in a person(s) life or something like that I think lol. Pretty cool altogether . Impressing me each n every time! -EazyBeatz
A little abstract in it's design, but has a style...
Just a touch off the wall for me, must say the production
is tastefully done...
Needing a few more harmonic connections melodies for my taste...
But It's all good, nothing but some Music from where I stand..
This was really delightfull fusion collage journrey. Despite of it's length I wasn't bored for a single second. Also production levels are admirable....big well done to you!
Really groovy fusion style on this one! I'm loving the mix throughout as well! These mini mixes that some people do around here are always fun to listen to. Really strange ambient around the 6 minute mark, I like it! You're breaking into some new territories on these, and I appreciate that! Keep doing it! Fave!
I just re-uploaded it a while ago after adjusting volume - it's louder now.
Thanks a lot for nice words - I started with recording some strange sounds using microphone on my laptop on this ambient track - the last one is based on the sample that was processed usind sound stretch software. On both 'fusion' tracks I made the keyboards myself - first one incorporates also some loops from this site.
Glad you liked this compilation. Thanks again! Alex
The first word that comes to mind when I listened to this track was abstract. Only because this melody is pretty much what your mind is making it and not what it really is. I dont know maybe im just screwed up in the head but this is a very nicely put together song.
yes, you're right, the entire song is developed from the melodic and harmonic material of the original. I agree that there's no real melodies here - just some abstract, jazzy piano chords. I do not claim it to be a melodic piece at all!
thanks for your review. alex
Chilled dnb. Nice remix here Promenade! I like how you still kept in that snare. (It may be a different sound though, not sure) The drums are a bit iffy at times but they still blend together well. Love the synths and atmospheres. Relaxes me. I've had a stressful hectic year so this definitely helped. Great work, peace!
hi Gramo, sorry for slow reply.
that snare is on the dnb drum loop I used - maybe it sounds like this because of unusual mixing, I do not know. This is one of my first songs in the genre - I do not listen to much to dnb at the moment so let's say it's still an experimental track of mine. Anyway the 'iffy' drums you mentioned are from sampled crucethus's song - I couldn't separate pads from drums.
Really nice to hear this music could have that kind of relaxing impact.
Thanks a lot for your comment - it is appreciated! Alex
you really have a nice mix going on this one Alex..especially like the piano.....I`ll have to check out crucethus`s mix again just for fun...but this is very cool.....Ed
thanks a lot Ed.
The short, isolated piano notes from the beginning are sampled from the crucethus's song. I played also some smooth chords and repeated piano one note motif in the second section using 4Font Piano plugin adding simple but really nice bassline at the same time. This track was definitely inspired by beautiful pads from the original and I used them a lot when making this version of the remix.
Glad you liked my production - I appreciate your comments. Alex
cool. really glad you enjoyed this one!
I just made the last version and updated the track - it's different from the rest but still very nice, probably the best one so far.
thanks again for the nice comments and listening! It's appreciated. Best, Alex
hi, thanks for your comments.
I just made another remix (the last one) and updated again this track! - it's quite nice too, a bit in a breakbeat manner. I started again from scratch.
You may like this one also. Greetings, Alex
thanks a lot, I just made another remix - it's really different now. You may check out this new version if you like, I think it is much better from the first one. thanks again, Alex
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1:29 and now the groove is very similar to The Cinematic Orchestra's The Awakening Of A Woman, which is brilliant piece of music.
It's a ride-based drum groove I really like. Lots of space and very chilled out. Bass sounds a bit like a double bass.
2:15 and now the groove has got faster and the keyboards busier. Rhodes is the main thing here. Great and classic tone.
3:01 I prefer it when it drops back down into that cymbal groove.
This is some deep music a lot like Cinematic Orchestra, who I love.
I can't really hear any vocals in this. Where are they?
Well done on a really well made track.
I know what you mean by this song being a 20min long track - in Windows Media Player it shows 21:52 - I will try to convert it again and fix that, thanks for pointing this.
I will re-upload the track soon.
Basically the bass groove was inspired by your 'Think big feel small' descending bass notes (here on slow 6/8 sections) - I guess it's a kind of a common jazz bass phrase anyway. I added ascending bass line on 4/4 faster sections - this metric combination is good and simply makes the track interesting and more 'fusion'.
There's just a little bit of the vocals here at 2:40: it says 'Time is the father of truth' or something like that. Wanted to add more vocals but I couldn't find something that will fit this song so only one short sentence.
The bass sound is from Kontakt virtual bass guitar layered with MrRay22 e piano bass. The Rhodes is from MrRay22 plugin as well - the monosynth solo is MinimougueVA plugin. Many effects added to the instruments (mostly EQ and reverbs, a lot of compression). I am not really happy with the soloing - I used only a standard midi controller keyboard and tried many times but because I do not really practise playing like this so I had to adjust some notes afterwards. The jazz drums are from EZ of course - some ethnic percussions from ferryterry and other percussive sounds to create more mouvement and some interesting colours.
I love this song from Cinematic Orchestra - after recording the bassline and e piano chords in 6/8 I realized it is quite similar to the beat from 'awakening of a woman'. Of course there's no real instruments on my track and I only tried to create an illusion of the live band performance. On the Cinematic Orchestra's song there's excellent and subtle instrumentation.
Many thanks for kind words and detailed comment. Nice to hear you liked my work. Alex
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Thanks again for your time and nice comment. Best to you, Alex
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Track 3 now and we start off with yet more trippy atmospheres with delays and reverbs. I'm not sure but I think track four has just started. You create some really good soundscapes with interesting sounds. Really dark pads and nice explosion sounds going on, this ones got me thinking of the terminator because of the dark machine type noises and glitch sounds. It's pretty darn creepy.
Next track up and interesting use of the Rhodes in this one. What I like is that even though the tracks are all the same style it's easy to pick out one from the other as they all sound different. On to the final piece now and there's some great wailing guitars and feedback going on. You've proved with this track that you're good at coming up with soundscapes and it was definitely fun to listen to.
FR
I created almost all the sounds here using free vst's and 'Kontakt' instruments for metallic elements. I thought it would be really difficult to program and automate stuff to get the results like this actually but I played it all from the keyboard in a real time so in a sense it is just an improvised music.
The idea here was to make some corresponding sounds and create different musical 'events' happening at the same time on different levels inside each piece - a kind of a 'polyphonic' music. Not really a horror or comedy - I am not too much interested in that 'illustrative' aspect so far. Anyway it is really good to know that this music can trigger some concrete images.
Thank you again for your time and nice words FR- I really appreciate that. Alex
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would be great to make some music with you. I will spend some moments tomorrow thinking of what I can share with you and eventually let you know about the ideas if only anything will appear of course.
thanks again for your nice comments.
Greetings, Alex
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from my track!:)
Compliments____Orlando
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I am happy you enjoyed different vibes of these 4 tracks - I appreciate your listening and nice comments. Thanks again, Alex
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This is a pretty epic tune but if i had to pick one i'd say part two was my favorite.
I enjoyed listening to this track.
FR
Thanks again for your time and nice comment. I appreciate that. Alex
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Just a touch off the wall for me, must say the production
is tastefully done...
Needing a few more harmonic connections melodies for my taste...
But It's all good, nothing but some Music from where I stand..
Nicely done...
Peace...TG.
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Compliments and respect______Orlando
really glad you enjoyed listening to my music. Alex
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Thanks a lot for nice words - I started with recording some strange sounds using microphone on my laptop on this ambient track - the last one is based on the sample that was processed usind sound stretch software. On both 'fusion' tracks I made the keyboards myself - first one incorporates also some loops from this site.
Glad you liked this compilation. Thanks again! Alex
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thanks for your review. alex
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Compliments_____Orlando
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Gramo/Neo
that snare is on the dnb drum loop I used - maybe it sounds like this because of unusual mixing, I do not know. This is one of my first songs in the genre - I do not listen to much to dnb at the moment so let's say it's still an experimental track of mine. Anyway the 'iffy' drums you mentioned are from sampled crucethus's song - I couldn't separate pads from drums.
Really nice to hear this music could have that kind of relaxing impact.
Thanks a lot for your comment - it is appreciated! Alex
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The short, isolated piano notes from the beginning are sampled from the crucethus's song. I played also some smooth chords and repeated piano one note motif in the second section using 4Font Piano plugin adding simple but really nice bassline at the same time. This track was definitely inspired by beautiful pads from the original and I used them a lot when making this version of the remix.
Glad you liked my production - I appreciate your comments. Alex
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Excellent work!
Again, take care.
V.
I just made the last version and updated the track - it's different from the rest but still very nice, probably the best one so far.
thanks again for the nice comments and listening! It's appreciated. Best, Alex
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Cru
I just made another remix (the last one) and updated again this track! - it's quite nice too, a bit in a breakbeat manner. I started again from scratch.
You may like this one also. Greetings, Alex
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https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/161682
Cru