The continued quest to rate albums with few reviews to hopefully get some in return

The piano reminds me of the quieter moments in the Touhou Games, mostly the menu theme for Touhou 6. In those games, the piano is little more than a calm before the storm, while you commit to it fully. I wish some of the background elements were a bit more pronounced, as it would have helped differentiate the tracks and highlight some more harmonic ideas within them. Still, solid entry. 

Hi! These tracks are extremely commendably, for their well writter piano melodies. Seriously, a lot of other submissions have lot less complicated piano patterns, and rely more on vibes. 

I noticed that you often have strings in the background, whenever they get louder, they are really interesting, I think it's a shame that they stay in the background so often.

Also, on the note of orchestration, oftentimes it's advantageous to separate different instruments to their own section on the keyboard. In most cases you don't want two separate instruments playing around the same notes.

Overall incredible job! I hope to see you in next years Jam as well!

your use of piano is really good! I think with some more backing instruments to make everything sound fuller this could be even better!

These are good pieces! I have a few notes though.

First off, don't worry so much about having incredible gear or software yet! Learning to use what you have access to right now to the fullest extent will serve you greatly when you finally do upgrade!

In terms of the music, you've got great pieces, but listening consecutively makes them seem very similar to each other. A way to combat this with future pieces is to play hot potato with the melody and harmony, handing them off to different instruments or groups. A lot of what makes or breaks music like this is orchestration, and that involves determining what instruments play certain parts and when. With the base knowledge and skills you have now, as evidenced by these songs, I think you would do really really well just practicing handing off the melodies between instruments. It would give your music a lot of texture and really take it to the next level, regardless of the current sound quality!

Plus, you'll blow your own mind if you practice orchestration before dropping big money on high quality VSTs ;D

Either way, I think you did a great job with this submission!

a good bash! I like the Idea and serenity does give off the right vibe for it, so you hit the brief pretty well. I will also second mr Society Man and say the call and response is a nice technique which was used well.

In terms of critique: As you say the production is a bit lacking but I can't blame you for that - DAWs can be pricey. In terms of composition I think there could be a bit more space for the melody to sink in, particularly the first minute of 'serenity' is quite continuous. Serenity also has room to be slowed down a bit or have some tempo stretching, it's serene init, peaceful. I also think that you could do with a bit more on the percussion side, especially in 'tension'. percussion I find can really lift the energy of a piece.

Overall, good effort! Keep at it!