Composed by Josh Barron

Features "Nerevar Rising" composed by Jeremy Soule

The Red Year (Nerevar Rising from ELDER SCROLLS III MORROWIND)

Composed, Performed, Arranged, and Produced by Josh Barron

Sample Libraries:
Kontakt Factory Upright Bass
Project SAM Swing! Jazz Drums
Straight Ahead Samples Sketches of Flugelhorn
Straight Ahead Samples Art of the Alto
Spitfire Audio Originals Intimate Grand Piano

PREVIEW: Mike's Theme - Office Ver. (from Fallen Aces)

Drums: @TheBitterRoost
Vocals: @Unknown-Pseudoartist
Violin: @optimizasean

Kingdom Hearts - Dear Alice

This is the passacaglia of my Theremin concerto October Downs, as sightread by the Mostly Modern Festival orchestra during their orchestral reading sessions in the first few days. Quite a great little reading of a piece very close to my heart!

Conducted by Omer Kayhan.

Theremin Concerto Passacaglia

CREDITS

Unknown Pseudoartist: (re)arrangement, production, mix, growls, etc
https://unknownpseudoartist.bandcamp.com/

Ian Martyn: piano, whistles and vocals
https://ianmartyn.bandcamp.com/

minusworld: guitars
https://minusworld-vgm.bandcamp.com/

Siolfor the Jackal: bass
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiolfortheJackal

Based in another arrangement by Shiki Hyokura / Nota Lacrimae
https://soundcloud.com/shiki_hyokura
You can listen to the original arrangement this was inspired by here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190420172922/http://notalac.com/audio/arrange/lufiabattle2.mp3

Lyrics taken from the song "the Arc" by the band "Alice Nine" (since they took the melody from Lufia II!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bki5D2NhNUU

STORY / BORING TEXT

This was originally made for the monthly videogame music contest of Pixel Mixers. It's "recover month", which means covering something that was covered before, whether by you or anyone else. While it'd be easy to remake some of my earliest and worst attempts of ruining music, or ruining an arrangement originally made by someone close, I just though of going to a totally different direction and instead picked something from a japanese artist that, unfortunately, is not very well known in the western world. Someone with names or nicknames like Shiki Hyokura, Nota Lacrimae, XX and probably more.

I remember checking random stuff in random corners of the internet years ago to eventually find in the (now defunct) site of some japanese artist (doujin?) that had a lot of cool mp3s to download. Well, to be fair there were a lot of them in the 2000s or even 2010s as long as I know. That one, however... it just blown my mind since the first time I listened to it. It's so metal... so brutal yet melodic and emotional. Very much my thing. Plus the arrangement and structure is very similar to how I'd personally do.

So that was one of the first choices I had in mind when I though of submitting to that contest. I had the pleasure to count with a team of talented musicians and nice people on this, and the result is what you can hear there.

You can watch the video for this song here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTPfpi1SFg

Unknown Pseudoartist - Lufia II Battle 2 Feat. Ian Martyn, Minusworld, Siolfor The Jackal

My contribution to the Pixel Mixers monthly challenge during January 2024. Decided to go a bit crazy this time around, with a genre I've never worked with but managed to get some lovely collaborations going and took some inspiration from the TV show's taglines for the lyrics! The truth is out there! 👽

Credits:
Composed by Mark Snow
Arranged and performed by Rasmus Wallin

Featuring:
Denver Dale (Vocals)
Siolfor the Jackal (Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar) https://youtube.com/c/SiolfortheJackal
Serrin's Toes (Drums) https://youtube.com/@SerrinsToes 

Lyrics:
I want to believe
The truth is out there

Resist or serve

Trust no one 
They’re watching
I want to believe
The truth is out there

Resist or serve
Resist or serve
This is the end

Materia Primoris (The X-files: Resist or Serve Atmospheric Black Metal remix)

A walk though California Adventure while wearing a Binaural microphone.

You must wear headphones to get the 3D effect.

A Binaural Walk Though California Adventure.

"Home, Sweet Home" (はるかなる故郷, lit. A Distant Home), also known as "My Home, Sweet Home" or "Far-Distant Hometown," is a theme from Final Fantasy V. It was composed by Nobuo Uematsu. I arranged it for Irish music.

Celestia14 -SQEX Festival:Alta

はるかなる故郷 Hometown Lix (Jig) - Final Fantasy V

This is an arrangement I did for the Materia Collective release, Song Cycle: The History of Video Games.  The album features various singers, pianists, arrangers, and lyricists from Materia Collective bringing together some of game music's most influential tracks.

For this one, I tried to capture the additive feeling of minimalist composers (particularly John Adams), relying on short, repetitive phrases to insert chaos into the very orderly and bouncy Chocobo track, a piece that has been arranged dozens of times and that has appeared in at least 20 different games.  Darby Cupit wrote some incredible lyrics that reflect the stuttery nature of the piece while providing insight into the history of the Chocobo.  Doug Perry and Ben Wallace did a fantastic job of bringing the piece to life on the recording as baritone and pianist respectively.  I'm very proud to present this arrangement to everyone!

Ian Martyn - Arrangement
Darby Cupit - Lyrics
Doug Perry - Baritone Soloist
Ben Wallace - Piano

Song Cycle: The History of Video Games

Lyric de Chocobo (from "Final Fantasy")

Kan Själv!

Blåstrattslåten (feat. Göran "Freddy" Fredriksson)

Trio Menagerie performing my twist on the music from Banjo-Kazooie, in which we have a Fugue and a Postlude. Original music by Grant Kirkhope.

Performed by myself, Kathryn Tarko, and Andrew Dezmelyk at Anthro New England 2019

Lyric de Chocobo (from "Final Fantasy")

Ian Martyn

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