A little different perhaps Martius - Feed or Fight
 
Thanks for listening, all constructive comments and criticisms welcome.

Interesting one John, it has a little Christmas feel to it here and there, can't put my finger on why really. The military snare is a bit 'toy monkey' to my ears, but then again, it fits with the xylophone patterns. Nice pads throughout. What's the inspiration behind this one?

Thanks James, interesting "Toy Monkey" on the drums three lots of Superior drummer just kick and snare, I was trying to get that sense of a marching band.

As to the inspiration a friend suggested I write a tune for each month of the year, January - The Door and February - The Purification, have been done this is March - Feed or Fight.  Martius was an ancient God of Farming and War which was also the first month of the Roman calendar,  The months January and February did not exist in the Roman calendar the year ended at December and then there were 60 days belonging to no months.  

Hi, John. This was indeed interesting / progressive It took me until the drums and the xylophone came in together before I "got this". 
All the best.

yes, different for you but me likey.

Thank you Ken and Ed, we all need to experiment sometimes.

Really good job. March indeed. Strong melodies executed with style. Nice variety of melodies. Sorry for lack of better commentary. Well done anyway.

No need to apologise Antti your time and ears are appreciated thanks for listening. 

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Very nicely mixed -- overall pleasing sound.  And, a good bit of drama in the way you arranged it.  I particularly like the 'breakdown' around 2:35 and the unsual timing leading out of that section. (My only crit and it's probably one you can't change without spending money is that the sound of the 'horns' are a bit rubbery and old-synth sounding.)  I enjoyed this -- always good to listen to something done with out of the box creativity :)
 
Allan
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Thanks Allan, appreciate you taking the time to have a listen and comment.

Allan

 (My only crit and it's probably one you can't change without spending money is that the sound of the 'horns' are a bit rubbery and old-synth sounding.) 

 
That's because they are old Synths, two instances of Korg's MS-20 softsynth and one of Arturia's Prophet V softsynth.  I always think that part of the art of good synthesis is to have voices that are nearly but not quite right. 

I also made a point of limiting the notes played by them to that of a standard Bugle.