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

OK, I'll tell you how good this was to me.  As a recovering alky addict (26 years) I teared up at the end when she dumped the glass of wine.  Throughout the video I was yelling at the computer "don't do it" and was sure she didn't hear me.  You should approach NA, AA and all the other A's with this.  Wonderful, though disquieting for me, I loved it all.  The video was shot in HD obviously and is so clear.  The music fits like a glove.  All in all, I LOVED IT!!!

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.

Thanks so much Warren, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Our first screening was at the REEL Recovery Film Festival which is put on here in Las Vegas by Central Recovery and people were very touched and inspired by it, especially since the director of the video is someone who went through their program. It makes me really happy that the director and I were able to come up with this idea that has been so well received so far and put it to my music.
 
And to Ultrabra, thank you. It does get quite busy towards the end, which yea can be a bad thing in some songs but I just felt it kind of added to the drama and confusion and uncertainty. I came up with the name pretty early on while still building the song, and I knew I wanted it to get really crazy towards the end haha.

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!
 
 

Thanks Lynn! Yea I've been learning since releasing my album that, while I'm happy with my mixes... with my mastering, I still have a thing or two to learn about proper overall volume. It definitely comes out a little lower than other things that play side by side. Sounds great when it's turned up though! Haha. :-)
 
I'm definitely going to make sure for my next album that I get my overall volume better.

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

Thank you so much. I'm really so happy to see how the video has been touching people. The people who made it did such a great job.

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. 

The video looks pretty good, though I don't perhaps have a great taste in video either. But... I probably am the only one in the world who thinks the music sounds all the time about the same, though there are like quieter parts and some variation, but no chorus or other different parts. I'm not very familiar with this kind of music, so I probably am just a bit stupid for not loving the music's style. But perhaps this music style has to be like this. But, the mix is very good in my ears, through good headphones. Also very well produced I think and though it sounds about the same  the whole time the theme sounds very good. Also the sounds are all great. Though now that I remember that this is music made for a video and not vice versa, perhaps this is very good, I just didn't quite get it. Or is it so that because this is music made for a video, the music must not have a  chorus? I just wish there was musical development, but all I hear is promise of something that does not come. But then again, the theme is built in such a way that it sounds difficult to make a chorus on this piece. I believe you have great talent but we like different things.
kakku