Wow...gorgeous work! You had me hooked from beginning to end, this is such an experience...
Leaving This Life - Starting off with that simple, beautiful acoustic guitar, then gradually adding in more ethereal sounds, until at the end of that whimsical piano section, the balance between the real and ethereal switches...it's magical and brilliant! The following section is also wonderful, kinda reminds me of Debussy and other impressionist artists in a really good way.
Astral Emotion - The guitar feels so good to listen to, even if it seems to be repeating a lot, the way you continue to add and remove supporting elements keeps it engaging to listen to throughout. The second half is also great, you nailed the feeling of setting off into an unknown land.
Blurred - I love how in a stark contrast to the previous two tracks, there's a noticeable lack of melodic elements to start off. Really makes the listener feel a bit lost compared to before. Then the deep drums which keep growing in presence, along with that repeating motif, creates a great sense of tension and foreboding. The guitar coming back with a melody at the end, but with a distorted, lost melody, then leading into the transition is great! I wish I came up with something like that at the end of my 3rd track to convey the sense of returning from another world to reality. Brilliant stuff!
Living My Life - The transition giving away to a delicate melody that seems lost, then slowly regains its strength and finds direction is beautiful. The rest of the track is just ear candy, so nice and lovely. Gorgeous end to an amazing OST.
Really really awesome work on this OST! I had to listen to this track 3 times before I could even start writing this comment because there's so much good stuff going on. Listening to submissions like this really inspires me to try and incorporate some live playing into my next submission. (That whistling was so cool!) Thanks so much for sharing this fantastic OST!
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Thank you so much for the detail Bodo ! I like your reflection on Blurred about the absence of melody that helps getting lost, it helps identifiying some aspects that I didn't worded consciously. And about that guitar part at the end of this 3rd track. Happy it inspired you, I was actually really unsure where to put that part. It was derived from the 'western part' and I had it early in the process. In my mind it was gonna be something emanating from a radio, which would be a connexion for the character while changing dimension. I couldn't dig the story more and decided to include this 'interlude' in the 3rd track to help it connect to the previous song, and prepare the next one...
Please do include more live instruments in your next creation if you will, I'd be curious to hear that ! That's actually what I wanted to try after the previous jam, and damn that was opening some creative possibilities and it was so fun !
Again thanks for this comment :)