Name: Michael Gordon Shapiro's Music Spans The Globe in 'Empires Apart' by Music Respawn
Duration: 55 min 14 s
Description: The six different cultures in Empires Apart; Medieval French, Aztec, Chinese, Byzantine, Arab and Mongol gave composer Michael Gordon Shapiro a fun challenge to write music using an iconic sound for each of them. And in our conversation he shared some ideas for making sampled instruments sound as live as possible.

A MASSIVE power brass  cover of "Legend Of Zelda" Intro theme by Koji Kondo. Danny flam on Brass, Mitch Friedman on Bass
This one with a bazzilion brass trumpets, bones, bass trumpets, bass trombones, contrabass trombones, and a pBone (Plastic Bone) solo in the middle.
Check out other covers:
https://soundcloud.com/newyorkbrass/sets/computer-game-covers-xbox-snes

Legend Of Zelda Intro Live! - Funky Power Brass

Lone Echo

Entering the Arena

Welcome To Kronos II

Electric Sheep

The six different cultures in Empires Apart; Medieval French, Aztec, Chinese, Byzantine, Arab and Mongol gave composer Michael Gordon Shapiro a fun challenge to write music using an iconic sound for each of them. And in our conversation he shared some ideas for making sampled instruments sound as live as possible.

Michael Gordon Shapiro's Music Spans The Globe in 'Empires Apart'

This was the first stringquartet I composed after learning to play the viola in 2018. The initial idea of this piece was to use all the strings of the instruments instead of mostly single voiced figures.
In the past weeks I finally got the time to finish this recording with some of my modern sounds and some binaural (or 8D) moments.

So I hope you enjoy and use some headphones!

Music composed, conducted and recorded by Jakob Eisenbach
Music mixed by Max Molling
Performed by Ensemble ExperiArtus:
Piano - Inna Angelova
Violin 1 - Flurina Sarott
Violin 2 - Vessela Kazakova
Viola - Iliyana Kazakova
Cello - Anonym

Momentum (Piano Quintet)

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Michael Gordon Shapiro's Music Spans The Globe in 'Empires Apart'

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