this is not the Rush song I was expecting

very nice of you to mix in those great vocal samples in throughout the piece. All around solid cover!

35. The Upside Drown (Watergrav)

Like most RPG fans who played games from the 90s, I absolutely adore the Chrono series.

Last year I decided to experience Chrono Cross again via the new remaster.  During my playthrough, a short 6/8 piano idea for the song, “Burning Orphanage” popped into my head, and after playing around with it, I decided to try building it up into a full song.

It eventually evolved into this, what I think would be classed as a kind of haunting and wistful prog rock song with piano being the main driver, but also accompanied by the usual fair of rock drums, bass, synth leads, organs, both layered and lead electric guitar parts, strings, and mellotron choir.  Some parts of the song are perhaps faintly influenced by bands like King Crimson, some of Steven Wilson's solo music, as well as stuff by The Black Mages.

Once most of the first half was fleshed out (which was originally just going to be the whole arrangement), I realized one night that I could smoothly transition into the song “Silent Light” from Chrono Trigger, so I incorporated that as a slower second half.  Eventually I figured out a way to transition it back to Burning Orphanage with a mellower tone to close out the song.

The progression of the arrangement is recounting Kid’s trauma of fighting and surviving Lynx’s attack on the orphanage (first half with "Burning Orphanage"), but then wandering alone after her escape (second half with "Silent Light") and eventually finding peace (back to a slower "Burning Orphanage"), but not necessarily closure.

The actual scene from the game is one of the most heart breaking and climactic events from the whole series, IMO, and I wanted to try giving it even a fraction of justice.

"Lost Orphan" (Chrono Cross & Chrono Trigger "Burning Orphanage" & "Silent Light" arrangement)

Vapor Trail has awesome music. You should check it out! The Gamadelic arrange in particular is absolutely killer.

Did this as my usual "what if it was on X" sort of experiment; kind of a blend of the original arcade version & the Mega Drive version. Thanks to @harumi-makoto as usual for helping out!

spcs: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/urel8l08lbu2onk/AADR5R38vdnzlCwOEfWwzk6Ra?dl=0

Vapor Trail (SPC700 cover)

Thunder Force V - Legendary Wings

Burning Rangers - We Are Burning Rangers [2A03+VRC6]

I got my devices to power on and run simultaneously! Woo!

Blizzard Wolfang (SC8850 + MU90 Arrange)

Encounter (Happy VRC7 Remix)

I wanted to take the mick on jRPG music

turns out I have become that which I wanted to take the mick on

Romancing SaGa 3 samples, 8ch monophonic, within SNES limits.

A Battle Of Decidedly Unfair Difficulty

Happy Halloween! Here's some Halloween-y music for you. The classic "Bloody Tears" from Castlevania 2, and just about every other Castlevania, too. Made in 0CC FamiTracker 3.15.3. Download links:
FTM (requires 0CC FamiTracker 0.3.15.3): https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxzzj0f8j0nxc92/Bloody%20Tears.ftm?dl=0
NSF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/for3rgvdzljnzdd/Bloody%20Tears.nsf?dl=0

Castlevania 2 - Bloody Tears [NES/Famicom Remake]

Thumbnail by Kotori (full image here.) https://twitter.com/kotori_mouchi/status/1311683287664881664
As those of you who have read the Elancia books and/or followed me for a long time know, the Elancia stories are all very much western-inspired. As the stories go on, they get even more so... This song helps represent that shift, I feel. Enjoy!

Frontier [Verse]

Sequel to this; https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/showdown-in-the-sky-1?in=leila-wilson-woofle/sets/symphony-of-awakened-gods from the upcoming third Elancia album, Symphony of Awakened Gods.
This palace is visited twice, and while it's in one piece as it flies through the sky the first time, it is a shattered mess the second time, where gravity often disregards itself. The palace is on a crash course with the Empire and Verse and company (who are all really pissed off at one another for various reasons,) are on a mad dash to try to stop it any way they can. 
I wanted it to have a very different feel from the first one, and medley'd in a lot of different stuff than I did the first time around.

Showdown in the Sky [2]

Hi, I'm Sam, I make music I guess, lol

Guitars:
Ibanez GRGR121EX (2014)
Jackson JS32 Rhoads (2015)
Harley Benton Fusion III FR HH (2022)
Harley Benton PJ-5 HTR (2019)

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