Ugo
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Posted: Mar. 07 2008, 15:10 |
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So... after finally having got this... from 7digital, thanx Timshen for the tip ... let me make up my mind on what to say about it, as it's not very easy for me to describe what I think about it...
- Overall, it's a very, very good piece of work. I think t works well for what it's supposed to be (a presentation of the MotS album), but it wouldn't be really good if people got the wrong impression from it... i.e. that MotS is going to contain strong electronic-based beats. As far as I've heard on the promo copy, it doesn't. Obviously I've got no means of knowing whether there will be any strong beats on the final release...
- There are a few things I don't really like on this, mainly related to the presence of electronic/synthesized stuff in what should, all in all, be a classical piece of music... or is it not supposed to be classical music? However, the strings at the very beginning up to 1:51 sound very synthetic, while the choir definitely sounds very real. [By the way, I hear what sounds like a very slight skip at 1:35. Is it a flaw on my file, or is it really like this?] If this, as I've read, pre-dates Karl Jenkins' involvement in MotS, then the synthetized strings are justifiable, but how did Mike get hold of the full choir? [And who 'wrote' the lyrics? ] Also on the subject of synthetized stuff, the 'airy' keyboard pad starting on 1:51 here, and first heard on TBIII, gives me a weird impression of "What's this doing here?" - as it's clearly perceivable as electronic - but at the same time it sounds nice as a background part to Mike's guitar. So... 50/50.
Continued below, as I've run out of allowed smilies...
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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