This is a song I had to make out of a story I read, "Las aventuras del ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha". The lyrics where carefully put together after reading this wonderful work. I made it so that the listener feels in the Spanish Golden Age, the added the twist of the trumpet beat along with a bass, kick, and snare, to make it into hip-hop. This was one of the first tracks I put together with vocals but I managed to make the voice cut through and give the complete arrange space

I made this song initially for a creative expression project in my Spanish class. It had to be about don Quijote which was the book we were analyzing at the time. I wasn't understating anything and this was the only class where the teacher encouraged creativity, so I got to work on this little tune. Started from scratch just like my other productions, just that in this one I worked of a couple of medieval sound banks. After finishing it this I ended up seeing it as much more than just a school project, it was my own analysis, a piece of my creativity.

El Quijote

I put this song together way after creating the initial chords, which were supposed to be used for an electronic track, so it was basically molded into them. Piano is from and Arturia MIDI keyboard and the drums are played with my Launchpad in MIDI. The second verse I played around with by putting a guitar pedal on. this creates an effect that adds energy to the whole mix. The bassline is also played by me, and it is spontaneously fit into the arrange. Mixing was done solely by, changing compression to make the drums "pop" but keeping them lower than the snare, to not make it sound like a 90s rap*. 

This is a song I wrote while I was on the March of the Living trip; holocaust remembrance trip to Poland and Israel. The whole point of the lyrics are to sound like a simple rap, but if you listen closely, I am trying to convey the message of passing on information about what happened. Something very important for the holocaust survivors I met.

*I actually love 90s rap

Kardo

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