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fastguy101 Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Dec. 12 2006, 10:24 Disclaimer: I don't claim to be a musician, producer or sound engineer.  Anyone who can create music out of thin air is talented.  People who can create music that takes me on a journey are the real artists. Well, I just had a thorough listen to Bridge to Babel without interuption.  My impressions remain the same as my previous post; this is CD will be a permanent fixture in my collection.   Could I critique this effort?  Sure but the "flaws" for me are part of the landscape of the creation.  And what I mean my flaws are very minor such as ONE note that seems to be out of key or what Edoardo mentions himself in his earlier post regarding improvements with equalization and/or sound choices.   What I found most interesting was a couple sections in the latter half that introduce (and well done) a couple sequenced synth (electronic)sounding parts.  At first I was surprised but it worked in the overall scheme.   Couple questions: -Can I assume that there are REAL voices in some of the singing?   -Are the drums programmed or "live"? Thanks, Mike Back to top

DarkenedEdo Group: Musicians Posts: 124 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Dec. 12 2006, 17:05 Quote How come the mp3 is only 55:18 min. long? I'm missing out the last tones from the boy's singing. It's 55:18, is correct, and it ends with the boy's voice. -------------- www.edoardofainello.com :::: www.fayeth.com :::: www.myspace.com/kahman Back to top

DarkenedEdo Group: Musicians Posts: 124 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Dec. 12 2006, 17:10 Quote Couple questions: -Can I assume that there are REAL voices in some of the singing?   -Are the drums programmed or "live"? Are real voices, but they came out from a sound library corrected in pitch and waveform. The drums are programmed, except some parts (The kid and the snake for example) where I used different loops from a live session digitally stretched. -------------- www.edoardofainello.com :::: www.fayeth.com :::: www.myspace.com/kahman Back to top

DCDayDreamer Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Dec. 12 2006, 18:24 This is absolutely amazing, I couldn't believe it when you posted this Edoardo, I listened to the MP3 then burnt it to CD (then listened to it again three times). This was playing when we put the Christmas tree and decorations up the other night, what a wonderful piece of music (or should I say 50 pieces?), thank you so much for this, it will be forever embedded in my memories when Christmas comes around again. I took the CD to work yesterday and played it for all the staff, out of 22, 17 people want copies of the CD, that should be testament to what a really fantastic piece of music this is. I really can't thank you enough for this Edoardo, but here's a little help from me to spread this music around: Bridge To Babel MP3 Track at Lyricless Bridge To Babel CUE File Bridge To Babel Booklet 1 PDF File Bridge To Babel Booklet 2 PDF File Bridge To Babel Inlay PDF File Bridge To Babel Label PDF File Back to top

Moz Group: Musicians Posts: 600 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Dec. 12 2006, 20:22 17 out of 22 people - sounds like a great response!  What was wrong with the other 5? To add to DC's contribution, I've linked to the track from the Download Centre: http://www.lyricless.com/view_article.php?id=465 Of course, I'll be recommending it - but right now I'd prefer to wait until I have some thoughts to sum it up.  It's hard to summarise a track like this without writing a novel!! -------------- Twitter: @benbarden Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 13 2006, 17:42 OK, now everyone's talking wonders about this and here I am, the dumb guy who still hasn't heard a single note because he cannot get his software to work properly. Of course I have the mp3, all 55 minutes and 18 seconds of it, but I have no time to 1) listen to all of its 55 minutes and 18 seconds in one go; 2) make a nice CD out of it with the printed covers and everything else. So, if there's anyone here who has done number 2 above and is so kind to do it again for me, please PM me. Of course I shall repay him/her. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Dec. 14 2006, 00:38 Quote (Ugo @ Dec. 13 2006, 22:42) OK, now everyone's talking wonders about this and here I am, the dumb guy who still hasn't heard a single note because he cannot get his software to work properly. I'm sure you'll have tried this already, Ugo - but just in case you haven't, or for anyone else who wants to split the mp3 without installing Foobar: Open the mp3 itself with Nero. Add the 55 minute track to the (empty) compilation, highlight the track, click Properties, then select the 'index, split etc' tab, which will let you put a set of indices where you want them, before burning the disc. (I haven't actually done this myself - I just burned the whole thing in one piece, Amarok-style.) My printer, alas, isn't up to the job of printing that beautiful artwork properly. The lettering is small, and no matter what settings I use, I can't make it legible at CD cover scale. Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Dec. 21 2006, 04:09 Hi Edorado, I've been given a copy of your CD by Alan, thanks Alan , all I can say is WOW!!! 55 minutes of brilliance.   -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

gromloft Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: Feb. 04 2007, 10:47 I don’t know what to say….my second post here, the reason is you once again. I told you I’ m one of your biggest fans. Great music, music that makes you go crazy, cry, laugh, relax, imagine….a state of the art! If only I could show to you how I like it! Thank you for sharing your inspiration. Back to top

gromloft Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: Feb. 04 2007, 10:52 I don't know what to say...my second post here, the reason is you once again. I told you I'm one of your biggest fans.Great music, music that makes you go crazy, cry, laugh, relax, imagine....a state of the art! If only I could show to you how I like and appreciate it. Thank you for sharing your inspiration. Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Mar. 01 2007, 03:50 Wow, I didn't think this had been completed. Thought it dropped off the face of the earth. Too bad I didn't get to record that last guitar triplet part on its own for ya. Ah well. Downloading now. Hope it's as good as I remember it. -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Mar. 01 2007, 15:36 Well, I gotta say I'm a bit let down. For most of it I was skipping through looking for the parts we all made together (which goes to show the style didn't stand on its own for me) only to find them stripped down and severely edited. Not to mention that those parts made up about 5% of the whole piece. Honestly, the whole thing seems like a big ambient track with no direction or solid theme (except for the excessive use of the super-warbly guitar everywhere which I didn't like). Great mixing work and technical know-how. I just don't think it stands up as a musical piece I'd listen to as much as Amarok. The original working demos you collaged out of our pieces sounded better, IMO. Good effort. Am I the only one who has a negative comment? -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

oblique Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Mar. 03 2007, 06:38 Nope. I had some comments as well. I like the piece for it is surely the best he has done so far. But it is not a coherent composition, not balanced enough. The first part being to long: not to my taste, but compared to parts 3 and 4. Part 3 could have been the same, but part 4 more spun out. Anyway, i wasn't asked for what i think of it, just found out like you that it existed. I haven't been in contact with Edo lately and looking at all the girls he has collected on his myspace i guess it will be like that for a long while. I do not judge him for that. It's just that even when you're on your way to fame and glory you need to take some bad crytics as well. I have listened to your new composition and i'm very much looking forward to it being completed. -------------- "While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past." - Jack Vance Back to top

DarkenedEdo Group: Musicians Posts: 124 Joined: May 2003 Posted: April 19 2007, 09:34 Fame and glory? So far from it... -------------- www.edoardofainello.com :::: www.fayeth.com :::: www.myspace.com/kahman Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: April 21 2007, 11:58 So why is your myspace full of techno and house music? Not that there's anything wrong with it but it seems kind of hypocritical especially when you have none of your other (better) music on there.... EDIT: Ah wait. I see now that you have 2 myspace's. My mistake. -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

gromloft Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: July 15 2007, 19:03 Edoardo, this piece of music is a masterpiece! It stands against the time! I listen to all these excellent 55 mins again and again and...... Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Dec. 14 2008, 19:41 I'd completely forgotten i had this track, but was browsing through my Windows Media player and saw a track I didn't recognise. For some reason WMP had it tagged as a Klause Schultz track, so I played it and re-discovered 55 minutes of brilliance. I can't comment on how it was made, or on Edo's current musical taste/friends, but I can say I really enjoyed listening to it again today. And that's what really matters with any music - did it connect with me - make me feel something? And this track did. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Bassman Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Feb. 2008 Posted: Dec. 16 2008, 19:23 I wouldn't have seen the topic if Olrac's bump hadn't caught by eye.  So I gave "Babel" a try and I was very pleased and impressed with it.  Well done, Edoardo.  It's a great piece of work.  At times very reminiscent of Tangerine Dream and then suddenly great sweeps of Oldfieldian guitar cut through the textures.  I would presume that those bits were Brandon's contributions (the NOT-"super-warbly" parts).  Brief they may be, but they would seem to make all the difference. Back to top

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