Eurasian Groove

Hi,

WARNING: This is completely different to anything you've heard from me before!!!!

http://soundcloud.com/pur..hapsody/eurasian-groove

It's for a 'showcase' on the Tubular.Net site whereby the musicians on the site are to create a new piece of music meeting the challenge of "Ambience & Bells".

I decided to stretch it further and use the EWQL Voices of Passion package that languishes on my hard drive...

So, it's not typical Purple Rhapsody and so I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing when arranging, mixing, or otherwise working with this kind of music. I've uploaded it now so I won't touch it again but just in case I find myself commissioned to do something similar in the future I'd welcome ALL your comments (as negative as you like!) or suggestions for improvement.

I'm not even sure I actually like it myself... I know I wouldn't buy it :-O (which is why it's available as a free download)

Cheers,
Terry.

I think it's good. Sounds like some kind of interlude music for a film of some sort.

Really well done.

Definitely film stuff (like I'm an expert in film scores or something!  lol).  But it does remind of me of some music I've heard on TV.  There might be a few notes that sort of jump out a little too much to take away from the ambience a tiny bit.  Probably a bit more CC work would take care of that.  Definitely not a deal-breaker though.

I prefer your piano music, but I think you did this well.  :) 

Hi Terry, nice and relaxing, could use some piano : ). 

Rik

Hi all,

Thanks again for listening:

@Janet - yes, it does sound quite filmic, and yes I was a bit lazy on the CC work for the strings (I presume it's the strings you refer to). Life would be so much simpler if every idea I had could just be a solo piano piece of music... ;-)

@Rimshot - thanks. I tried to do the 'bringing it all down and then building up again' about two thirds of the way through but didn't quite manage it. If I wasn't doing it for an "ambience and bells" challenge it would be quite different given the same inspiration.

@Rik - thanks. Yup, could do with some piano... I did have some piano arpeggios in there at one point but they were even more incongruous than having a string quartet accompanying the indian and bulgarian voices!

@lhansen - thanks for listening. I used East West Quantum Leap Voices of Passion - lots of samples of various phrases sung in various keys from Africa, India, Wales, America, and Bulgaria (I think that covers it).

Thanks again,
Terry.

I like it. It flows really well and everything sounds like it's where it should be. It could have fallen over into very easy listening jazz land, but it doesn't. I think that the mournful strings really helps on that front. And it grows nicely from start to end.

Terry
 
As I said before, it's another 'string to your bow'... I think it's a great track. It still has that PR style. Nice one mate!
 
Martin

Honestly, I thought we have always been at war with Eastasia?

Nice stuff. The violin is just a tad sharp. Drop the highs a good deal and it will sound more real.