This month's featured playlist is fun, festive, and enchanting— guaranteed to make this season feel even more epic! Enjoy some of our favorite holiday-friendly original tracks.

From A Land Of Dreams

It has taken a lot of time to finish this one, because I wanted it to sound perfect, though it still doesn't sound as good as I would like. Anyway, you know that I try my best :)

As you will hear it is a remake of my old composition "Journey Through the Highlands". I've always loved that song but I felt that its sound quality was not the best. In addition I also wanted to change some things regarding to composing/arranging.

Well, I think everything needed is said here. Just enjoy it!


Journey Through Aran

Composed by Marc Aaron Jacobs
Vocals by Zefora

Lyrics:
Adeni kahteh
Iseri koveni
Edenash adeni

Askadeh er crado
Saka nedisheh vado
Isa keni-eh ehdi

(additional high part on chorus repeat:
Ahdikah veh
Keh dehsha va-ni
Isa keni-eh ehdi)

Sakesh vetah edah naro


Translation:
“Adeni kahteh”:  To quest for the nature of divinity; to strive for the divine; to find the center above.  Not a calm quest for enlightenment, but an intense need for it.

“Iseri koveni“: To strip the self; to rip away flesh; like peeling an onion to achieve that enlightenment.

“Edenash adeni”:  concludes the thought by turning the whole thing around - The light is in the shadows, the wheat is in the chaff, or, that the nature of divinity are the pieces stripped and thrown away in the previous step.  On a poetic level, it's saying that the perfected form, the divine state, was the need itself.  The beauty and the truth were there all along.

“Askadeh er crado”  excelsior plus suffering; a noble ordeal, the honor of having endured, plus the humility of the price you had to pay for it

“Saka nedisheh vado”  literally ‘spoken prescription vessel’

“Isa keni-eh edi”  literally ‘a mote of dust among ashes twinkles’; all vocal parts converge on this phrase to emphasize the profound importance of such a seemingly insignificant thing.  "Edi" itself means particle, but it's also an affectionate diminutive for beauty in simplicity, so the entire language of the phrase literally ends on the single imagery of that one shining particle.

Together, the last two lines allude to the noble ordeal ironically, setting it up as a huge event that ends with all focus on the smallest, most insignificant part of it.  In essence, to go through a huge, epic struggle or battle for enlightenment only to look down at the end and find it in a tiny twinkling speck of dust.  The chorus can be summarized as “This great thing in its smallness.”

(The additional refrain in the 2nd chorus contains less meaning.  It is mostly a sing-songy echo of the above translation as it was added much later in the writing process.  It merely supports the underlying meaning of the rest of the song.)

“Sakesh vetah edah naro”:  ‘Seek ye here what you already know.’  The last line alludes to the end of the verse--that beauty and truth were there all along.

Buy it on iTunes

Marc Aaron Jacobs (feat. Zefora) - The Fallen Will Rise [Twisted Jukebox]

The Eternal Rest Of A Ronin

Two Steps From Hell - Release Me

Orchestral soft music 

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Dreaming

Hello everyone! I'm presenting to you "Tales of El'Azar" a project of mine based on the same novel. It's a set of ambient & orchestral compositions that follow the story of Ulenth, the Mists traveler, as he arrives in the fabled world of El' Azar and explores it. Two different parts compiled into one album coming straight from the time I experimented a lot with music. I hope you enjoy!

Before the Pale Throne

Two Steps From Hell - Skyworld - 16 - Big Sky.mp3

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Two Steps From Hell - Skyworld - 16 - Big Sky.mp3

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