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I try to do different stuff each jam, since I  usually get stuck/de-motivated if I do something in the same style i did for a previous jam  😅.

I just seem to be really influenced by my mood in music making, so I usually just go with the flow and how I felt looking at the themes in regards to what genre/style i try to do, since if i try to force myself to do something I don't feel like doing, I usually get stuck or the end result just turns out meh 😁

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🙏 Many thanks!

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Easily the best production of all the submissions for me! everything is clear and has a nice punch to it.

Good work from both of you!

Really vibey, could've easily listened a lot more! Actually felt it ended too soon on the first listen, but I guess that was just because the ambience sound didn't fade out.

Great work!

This style of music always makes me feel like I'm watching a crime or drama show since it's so heavily used in those for emotional moments (end of episode fade to black/credits) 😂.

That said, its just a Pavlovian response for me, nothing wrong with the music itself (which is great btw😉).

Good work!

We have the same Digital Piano 😄

Really liked the feel in the first track, gave me a lot of the same feels i get from listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto's Async album.

Good stuff!

Could heart the Jeremy Soule feels that EinelTheFox mentioned, especially the piano in storm blind just screamed Oblivion in vibe 😁.

Re: the tempo/timing stuff Kale mentioned, What I've done sometimes, is that I record a piano skeleton of the track to midi and then make a tempo map from that piano performance that the other instruments can be quantized to. That helps the track to feel more human a bit. I'm not sure if it's called tempo mapping in Ableton, but might be fun to look into if you're interested in trying that out.

Good work!

Great stuff like always! (also jealous of your work ethic, as always 😂)

re: EinelTheFox's comment, I'm a firm believer in not falling in to "tropes" in regards to cultures and trying to do your own take on them instead of just going "the theme is in russia, so here's some balalaika"😄. 

That said, I think hearing your take on some more mellow/soft stuff would be cool to listen to on a jam, since you usually do pretty energetic/powerful stuff.

Stellar work!

One word: Cool.

Sounds nice! Got a little Jeremy Soule vibe from this, could hear this fitting into something like Oblivion 😁

All the melodies are great, but I felt that having some more doubling in the orchestration could help make this feel a bit more fuller since at parts the texture feels a tad hollow (unless that's what you intended to fit the snowy landscape, just as a standalone piece that's how i felt listening).

Good work!

When the the Viol and then the Saz came in I could feel the Witcher 3 vibes that EinelTheFox mentioned, after that I was looking out if the slavic womens choir would hit at some point 😄.

Really great vibe all around, good work!

I'm not sure if it's what you were going for, but these had a really cool unsettling feel which i liked a lot, 

Good stuff!

Even without reading the descriptions i could feel the progression from track to track which was great!

The atmosphere was great throughout, and only thing that stuck out on the first listen was that on the first part of Song between a Man and the Wind the guitar plays a bit too low in register so it ends up fighting with the bass clarinet a bit for space and the texture gets a bit muddy as a result (just how it felt to me).

Good work!

Solid vibe all around!

Have to agree with Kale on the dissonance, having some dissonance on the end of the buildup that then releases to the uplifting section could've maybe help amplify the feeling even more. 

I think the technique what Kale was talking about is called Preparation/Prepared Dissonance in theory terminology.

Lovely vibe throughout!

With the sort of lo-fi/retro sound of the instruments, It got me really thinking how this would sound with a sort of SNES style echo effect on the instruments, since this gave some of the same feels i get from Chrono Trigger music.

Good work!

The tone of the soft pad combined with the foley in the background really makes it for me.

Really minimalist instrumentation, but I think this doesn't really need anything more. But If you were to extend this to be longer, I felt that you could have another instrument to play instead of the cello sometimes, since the raspy/nasally Sul Pont sound got a bit grating to listen to after a while near the end (just how i felt, so subjective take).

Great work!

Love me some Mellotron!

Ambience is great all around, but felt that the dulcimer was maybe a bit too forward and aggressive for my taste and maybe making it a bit more distant would help blend with the rest of the mix. But that's pretty subjective 😁

Good stuff!

Yea, went a bit minimal with the reverb so it wouldn't get too blurry/washed out, but could've probably had these a bit more wet.

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Really cool stuff!

Love the vibe and production is stellar, the cymbalish sound is from the Ikea candle lantern i guess? works great.

Really feeling like recording random items for sounds now 😁, good job!

Thanks!

The sad truth is that the arrangement would probably be a bit meh 😅, since i can proudly say I lack quite a bit of arranging chops/experience, which is why i had some problems coming up with an idea for what to arrange from the original idea 🤣 (or at least I'm assuming that the lack of arranging chops is why i get mental blocks on arranging  at times) and decided to just do solo piano tracks.

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The original plan was to try and do something orchestral ish but just didn't feel like it so here we are 😁

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Feel is nice! Kinda felt that having, say maybe the strings play some soft lines  in the background on the part after measure 18 that imitate what the marimba played before could be cool.

Good stuff!

The layered drone takes give a oddly nice feel at parts in how they differ in volume, kinda felt like sidechain pumping in electronic music to me 😄.

Great vibe and vocal stuff like you always manage to do, also really liked the tremolo stuff on the Talharpa, fits well.

A bit off topic, but somehow the overall feel of this just really made me want to play some Mount and Blade 😅.

Good work!

Feeling the JRPG influence! The feel of this brings mind to Suikoden a bit 😁.

A minor thing that i felt on the first listen was that the low staccato lines maybe could've changed to a less staccato part at some point since even with the orchestration changes, it started feeling a bit repetetive (for the lack of a better word) for me on the later half.

But still, great stuff!

Thanks for the kind words!

Still have a lot of issues with hand separation since I'm lazy with practicing and the only practice comes while actually composing stuff 😅.

I've come to feel about harmony, that if i think about it too theoretically/analytically while writing, i write boring stuff, and if i first settle on a melody and then just start improvising and playing stuff to go with the melody i write a lot more intuitive stuff to work forward from.

I'm kinda subscribed to the whole theory is for analysis/descriptive not prescriptive idea 😉.

Very glad you liked it!

Great feel throughout!

Adding to what Vera mentioned, I felt that the melody could change from the cello to another instrument sometime, or another idea i got was having the backing strings play some echo's/repeats of the melody to add some more interest to the arrangement.

Just some subjective stuff i got from the first listen, but still great work!

This type of stuff always make me think of silent hill 😄

A bit short and felt i could've listened to more, but still a great vibe.

Good job!

I think without the sonic movie mention, I could see this as some sort of combat track for the image in a way.

If you continue working further on this, I felt you could maybe have some more rhythm/movement in the backing parts since the lead instrument (and drums) is the only thing with any movement in it (I think there was some staccato strings at some part, but they got a bit buried in the mix volume wise).  And since its only that, it made the track start feeling a bit boring halfway through for me.

Also felt you could have some additional instruments that could take over for the main instrument to play the lead line, that could also help keep it not getting too sameyafter a while.

Just some subjective things i felt on the first listen so take with a grain of salt 😁

Good job!

😂 Glad you liked it!

Yea, Will have to do that on a different jam. Still in the learning phase with singing.

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Used to listen to a lot of different metal stuff growing up, so this type of stuff comes pretty naturally 😁

Been joking with a friend for a long time that if i just wrote tracks on autopilot they would be nothing but bVI-bVII-I, Circle progressions and sequences with some secondary dominants thrown in for flavor 😂(the chorus part is pretty much in that autopilot style). I've tried to write a bit different things/styles on jams to avoid getting too templatey if that's a word😅.

Yea, the vocals could be sung with more power (need a bit more practice on that😁). I spent far too much time tweaking other stuff, so didn't manage to record proper takes to replace those initial sketch ones 😅.

Beautiful stuff as you always seem to do 😁

Felt that the mix could've used a bit of reverb to glue everything together, since to me some instruments like the piano felt pretty compared to the orchestra.

Good work!

Very distinctive and cool stuff as always, what more can i say?

The mangled/bitcrushed voice stuff was great, added a lot to the vibe.

Production is on point, wow!

The first half of The Fight For Freedom sounds like it could almost be a League Of Legends Worlds anthem 😁

Great stuff!

Aesthetically reminds me a bit of David Bowie's Life On Mars, really cool.

Good tune, nice singing, what more is there to say😉?