My New Music Video - "If Only Tonight I Could Sleep"

Hey Everyone!
 
My new music video is finally here. It's for the track "If Only Tonight I Could Sleep" and is from my album Echoes In The Dark which came out last year. My last two videos went on to do pretty well at festivals and won some awards and now I'm starting to submit this one. It had its premiere at the REEL Recovery Film Festival here in Las Vegas two weeks ago and will screen at the Pollygrind Film Festival later in October.
 
The track is a dark piece of instrumental electronica which is pretty heavily influenced by The Cure (if you couldn't tell from the song title haha). The video tells the story of a woman in recovery having a day that pushes her strength to the limit. The video was made by a film crew here in Las Vegas called House of DON Productions. I've actually scored a lot of their film projects and we decided to also collaborate on the video and here it is.
 
http://youtu.be/2OnKOpRAzWc
 
I'd love to hear your feedback on the video. And as always, the song was completely done in Sonar.
 
Thanks!
 
David

Just commenting on the music - I enjoyed it - at times though the mix was a bit dense, particularly towards the end when the drums come in around 3:20, I think too many sounds fighting for space there.   The mix at the beginning has much more clarity.

David, congratulations on this work.  It succeeds on several levels.  I'm reminded of Michael Oldfield by the instrumentation that you used.  This is a huge winner in my book!
 
 

David,
 
Very powerful music and video, I thought it was all pretty amazing.   I know people who struggle with addictions and can't imagine how difficult that can be.  Your video really portrayed the inner demons and turmoil that is always just under the surface, though dormant, it could surface at any time.  Great work.

Regards

Very enjoyable.   The mix sounded great, and the composition kept my attention all the way through with the flow of variation.  The music and video went well together too IMO. 

Thanks SteveC! Glad you liked it.
 
And thank you kakku for the comments. The changes are pretty subtle but there are basically 4 sections not counting opening/closing. There's the main track, the part where it gets more layered, the breakdown, and then the part towards the end where the heavy drums and echoing synths come in. But yes, it is pretty subtle the changes.
 
It's not that this kind of music would never need to have big changes and full on chorus sections and whatnot, but when creating the piece in particular it felt right to keep it a steady build. Some of the songs on my album follow a structure like this one, some have more traditional verse/chorus/verse structures (even though it's still all instrumental), and some basically keep growing and adding as they go with no stopping of the groove. My genre is kind of in a weird in between state... Making music for film is certainly my main focus and goal... However I'm not a pen & paper, completely organic composer as I deal with mostly synths and electronic stuff and even use loops here and there (not much... mainly just in drum patterns or some kind of arp or something). And most of my influences are bands like The Cure, Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails haha. My album is a collection of music that draws from all of my influences, which makes it especially hard to classify. I like the term "electronica" but a lot of times i have to pick between things like "Electronic/Dance" and "Alternative Rock" and it's not really either of those haha.
 
Anyway, thanks for the comments. I appreciate the feedback. I'm working on my 2nd album now, and I'll definitely keep it in mind.

Thank you! :-)

Thank you!
 
And going back to the conversation from a few posts up... "Atmospheric Electronica" ... I like that :-)

Thanks man (assuming you're a man, not sure that there were female wookies... I'm honestly not the biggest star wars nerd so I'm not quite sure if there were haha).
 
Yea that's definitely part of what makes listening to everyone's stuff so interesting. Glad you liked it!

Hi David, there are female Wookiee's but I can understand your confusion because we has a problem identifying then too.  This Wookiee is not a female Wookiee.

I guess the video is essential for the music. I have a hard time watching videos with my poor eyesight. The music is good and mixed very well. The music by itself seems to lack for me. Not that it's not interesting, without the visual though, it just drones on. I did try and watch the video.
 
When I watch shows with my wife, she just points out things that are important to the story that's just visual. Ironically, I can recognize actors by voices either by name or another show/movie they were in.

This is really quite good, David - very interesting video, and the music is well-written and nicely mixed. Excellent work, sir.
 
cheers

yup...this is something that you're either going to "get it"...or not (kinda like a tarantino movie). I really enjoyed it. You are very lucky to have a film company relationship. I very much enjoy matching DT tunes to visuals and if we had someone local to work with I'd be knee deep in that.
 
 I've heard your work in the past and know that you have a great feel for capturing moods....you excell in that for sure.
 
keep it up bro!

David I enjoyed watching this. I think the music anchors the video pretty well...I think in the video production  could have been a little more mysterious/engaging by adding some special effects and maybe a few metaphorical images. What I came away with mostly was an argument..I never see her wasted on alchohol so I assumed it was a relationship issue mainly. Am I the only one who wants to hear some kind of lyrics? I kept waiting for something but it never materialized. The music itself is well done. Does seem to plod with no huge changes....maybe reflective of her mood? 
 
I shared a link on my twitter feed..good luck! 

I see Ive missed some of the meaning in it...I didn't know about that coin...makes a lot more sense to me now.Thanks for clarifying it.