Fractured Harmony: Musical Companion (WIP)

I think this is one of my better cinematic battle musics so far :)

This is for Fractured Harmony.

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"I will take you, and then I shall take them. Then their worlds, then the little ships of their little friends, then those little friends' little worlds. The planets, the suns, the galaxies! The nebulae, the pulsars, even the black holes! I will eat all of existence, and nothing will stop me until the sight and sound of the universe itself is as nothingness in my belly!"

"You shall not. Your reign of terror is at an end. I commit to life!"

Avatars

A fancy overture track based on the old "Anthem Trailer" track I made a while back. This was me learning how to use Reaper to orchestrate. That is a steep freaking learning curve, but I think I'm getting it finally.

I know this isn't perfect, but it makes me happy, so... :)

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Harmony preferred not to interfere with the affairs of outsiders. It had ended badly, in the past. Badly enough that they all instinctively pretended to be something they were not, to outsiders.

But they all agreed on one thought, when it came to this particular conflict.

_We cannot afford to sit this one out, or we may be next._

Harmonic Overture

Since I decided to incorporate Long Way Home into Fractured Harmony, I've been pulling in some of the old LWH tracks, rescuing them from FL Studio ;) and remixing/rebuilding them in Bitwig. I decided to go ahead and give this one more "B-side-ish" lyrics-poetry that was less awkward.

The name is a playful pun on the topic of the story bit (a datacentre).

Original: https://soundcloud.com/soaria/heart-of-earth?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home

Lyrics:
Listen to my story bout a world called Earth
Glass, mountains, skyscrapers, all ya can want
Cables and computers
An orderly grid
A matrix of cores
Free us from hurt

Breathe sacred air in the room, pinch your nose
Dust, damp, and heat, check it all at the doors
A liminal space
A maze to the truth
Home away from home
My monastery.

Heart of Earth [fibre mesh upgrade mix]

This is another remix from Long Way Home, for Fractured Harmony. The main upgrade is some of the orchestration got moved into Metropolis Ark. I debated with myself whether to put the voiceover monologue into this one, but eh. It's an important part of the mood.

Original: https://soundcloud.com/soaria/vast-frontier?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home

Voiceover:
Often it is said that the young feel old, or the old feel young. I’ve lost track of what “age” means, myself. All I know is that, when the world, with all of its loves, hates, fears, wisdom, folly, laughs, and cries… when the world suddenly and abruptly brushed its closest yet with death, the books said I was 24 years old. I'm Tainah Asche, Tai for short. This is how it all unfolded. This is our story.

Vast Frontier [glowing nebula mix]

This is a remixed and updated version of this track: https://soundcloud.com/soaria/tunnel-to-nowhere?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home

Once again for Fractured Harmony, which will include LWH.

Tunnel to Nowhere [hard road mix]

This is a remaster of this earlier song:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/waltz-of-the-navigator-1?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home-instrumental

...for Fractured Harmony.

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We wound our way through seeming hallways of art and displays, and then, suddenly, there in the distance, we perceived our host. His… no, her… All I could really say is that they looked human, perhaps what a human might look like if they’d been averaged together from thousands of people. Long, green hair, strong shoulders, soft eyes and jaw line. Clothes made of a flowing, light coloured, soft fabric that might’ve been robes or a dress. As we walked closer, the person looked up from playing Meyrick on a piano, smiling at us kindly, sighing deeply.

"You’re right, Mr Kordel. It _is_ Meyrick. She stood by and taught and mentored the greats, consigned never to be fully recognized in her own right."

Waltz of the Navigator [dancing angel remaster]

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