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Posted: Sep. 10 2003, 04:00

Nightfall

I hope you like it.

Note: The file is .ogg-encoded. Winamp can play it, or you can get Foobar Lite, a lovely little program that plays .mp3, .ogg and .wav. No skins or anything, just plain funcionality.

I believe the .ogg-format really is superior to .mp3 and .wma.


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Posted: Sep. 10 2003, 06:58

i've tried to download 'nightfall' but for some reason it reports me fail '404 not found', could be just me or something wrong with the link?

anyway i'll try again this evening.
cheers.


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Posted: Sep. 10 2003, 07:18

Thanks for telling me, Maria. I've fixed it now.

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Posted: Sep. 10 2003, 08:59

very good. very incantations and amarok like. You have thought a lot of this piece of music. I'm not sure I like it, but it's well done and well thought and produced

keep going, I think you have talent and the will to make music

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Posted: Sep. 10 2003, 15:03

Excellent. :cool: :cool: Oldfieldish, Tubularish, Amarokish and even a bit Ommadawnish (I love your rework of the Majestic Theme), but also very very very original. A very fitting follow-up to 'Autumn'. Congrats. :)

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Posted: Sep. 10 2003, 21:54

Glad to see another new convert of the OGG format :D.'

Very nice piece! Did more Oldfield-ish drumish sounds, I see. Nice work! Sounds very good. The themes also are very good. I especially like the theme that plays at 2:52. Good variety here. Very nice job! Moves from one theme to the next very smoothly and almost unnoticably. And very fluid guitar playing! Once again you amaze me.


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Posted: Sep. 14 2003, 17:59

I already liked 'Autumn' very much and this one is a worthy successor.
You clearly like the early works, so do I.
Please go on.....


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Posted: Sep. 14 2003, 18:54

nice one! clean sound and rich background all along the nightfall. i like very much the breathtaking change at the fifth minute after the crying guitar, very amarokian. i think u've gathered with good sense remarkable elements in mike's music. good tribute and played with a lot of care.

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Posted: Sep. 15 2003, 10:10

Wow! What a refreshing and well made piece of Amorokian music!!! I must agree with the ogg format sounding better than MP3.  

Look forward to hearing more from you...keep it up (the good music that is :-))


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Posted: Sep. 16 2003, 20:41

the .ogg definitly has potential, clearer crisper.

this is the first of your tracks i've got, excellent playing, enjoyed it very much. well done.

but..maybe a bit too much influnce from our mike. too many references and not enough growth. Mike is struggling to find new ground. We look to others to move forward. :)


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Posted: Sep. 17 2003, 05:24

Thank you all for your saying such nice things about Nightfall.

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Posted: Sep. 17 2003, 09:30

And by the way, Nightfall is actually triggered not by Amarok, but by a fiction by the great Jorge Luis Borges, titled Ragnarok. But the result of course turned out rather Amarokian. If one tries to emulate Oldfield, it's always going to wind up Amarokian, because I believe that work is his zenith and culmination point, with references to almost everything he did before, as well as its own unique ambience.

I actually put a two second sample from Amarok in Nightfall, as some kind of combined self-mockery and Oldfield-tribute. It's loud and clear, though short.


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Posted: Sep. 30 2003, 13:26

An overall good pieces with some great moments. I'm fascinated by the last minutes of the piece. Those glocky things work excellent!

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Posted: Oct. 07 2003, 09:55

Thank you, Ancient. I'm very happy that someone likes that part, as it is my own favourite – and the one not Oldfield-derivated in any way, though it contains most of the themes of the other parts, more or less altered.

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