Good to see you are still making music dude. Xtatic here btw haha. If you even remember that!

Love the horns here...and the harp!..and the bells!...and the melody! Feel likeI'm floating up in spirals...blessings

Soundtrack for interactive demo Initium Squared. Variety of styles. This particular track is orchestral. Composer credits include "Unreal", "Deus Ex" and more recently "Bejeweled 3". Check out http://www.funkyrustic.net for more, or http://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.net!

Dragon's Chase

The Returners
Released 22/03/2020

(Yep, I played FF6 a looong time ago, although when the rest of the FFs came out, I never really had the time or consoles to keep that up. The music has nothing else to do with FF though.)

This is the track that almost made me quit, mostly because it had a number of good ideas in it but they were all disconnected, and I tried very hard to try and link them all together. If I were a better composer, it might have come out better and not been a disconnected mess, but such is life.

I originally started writing this track in March 2018 - the name came from a Returners T-shirt that I got in one of the GDQs in years gone by, and although there was a potential wealth of associated inspiration, I basically went off the name alone, and did my own thing. I did have one aim though - write a 10 minute track.

It's a pretty shitty aim, as it's pretty arbitrary when it doesn't have a specific purpose, and as expected I ended up writing a large number of disconnected ideas, although the way it evolved the track had two natural parts.

I spent a hell of a lot of hours trying to reconcile everything, but the fact of the matter was that the first part was a confused mess, and the best idea that I had was to just drop it and concentrate on the second half. I could, in theory, revisit the first half, but I'd probably have to throw away quite a lot just to make it work, so... sod it.

Fast forward to the flustercluck that is early 2020, and I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out the mixing process. It's still a mess, but as good as I'm probably going to get with an inconsistent and dense arrangement like this. 

Either way, I'm done - time to move on with life. I'll try and get the next one out quicker. ;o)


Tools:
Cubase 9.5, Wavelab 6
8DIO Adagio & Agitato Vioins & Cellos
Cinebrass Core
VSL Woodwinds I & II
Spitfire Bones, Horns and Trumpets
Impact Soundworks Percussion
EWQLSOPP
Probably more things I've forgotten

The Returners

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