(c) Copyright Per Einar "Zepsi" Skavhaug/CrazyWorld Music NORWAY Sept. '99
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Do not use the samples marked with my name without permission! Mail me if
you want to use them or for any other reason at zepsi@hotmail.com
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8 Bit Version. Mail me if you want the original 16 Bit version.
My third folk music inspired piece... Inspired by Celtic music and
traditional Norwegian music.
The trilogy consisting of "A Voyage", "Mechanical Forest II" and
"Sleepless Valley", has much in common both in styles, sources of
inspiration and also samples. They are built much in the same way, but
still each of them has elements that the others don't have.
The intro chord progression was inspired by an old unfinished work song by
me. The main melody came to me so easily that I almost feared that I had
ripped it unconsciously, but at the end it seems that I simply had a lot
of inspiration when I wrote it =)
Unlike in "A Voyage" and "Mechanical Forest II" I put heavy vibrato on the
flute to make it sound more Celtic in this song. I also used the Exx
command to make that "falling down and fading away" effect.
You may wonder why I used the accordion lead samples as I did (I certainly
didn't use them accordions) and the answer is simple: I liked the sound
of them when I used them this way. The point of music isn't that you are
going to imagine a band playing. That must be rather boring. The point
with music is getting as good sound as possible, even if it means breaking
some of those "real life acoustic instrument music" rules.
The accordion samples are a bit noisy, something that can be explained by
the fact that I sampled _SK's mini accordion myself using one of those
standard PC mics =)
Anyway, I figured I had to use them despite of this because I
liked the sounds themselves.
BTW you can't hear the noise during song playback because of all
the other sounds, so that kinda solves the problem I think...
In this song I tried to get the drums as minimalistic as possible. I think
this makes the song kinda nice ;)
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I started this song back in September, and I finished it sometime within
September/October. The reason I didn't release it until now is that I at
one point was thinking of making more out of it. Anyways, because I have
been busy playing around with sequencing I never got the time to do that,
and I never had the inspiration either.
Now it's maybe 4 months or so since this song was finished, and it
wasn't until now I listened to it and thought "wow, this song is finished,
this is how I want it to be". So now it's time to get it uploaded ;)
After this song was finised I have finished one more tracker song
(The City in The Ice Caves), and I will soon release around 4 sequenced
songs in MP3 format. The sequenced songs include a Synth Pop song (Made
using my Yamaha CS2x), an Arabic inspired experimental song (made using my
CS2x), one Jazzy/Poppy/Rocky song (made using my CS2x) and one 80's Synth
Pop thingy made to try out my new Roland D-110...
I hope some of you enjoy this song and that you will also listen to my
new stuff when it is released (even if the MP3 format means bigger files)
=)
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Sample credits:
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*Most samples were converted from MIDI banks by LittleElk. Big thanx to
him.
*The harp was made by WalkMan
*The samples marked with my name (the accordion samples) were played and
sampled by me using _SK's mini accordion. These are the same samples as
used in my little song called "Alven Alf & Alle de Andre" some time ago.
Greets:
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ROGSTAA/CWM
_SK/CWM
Damien - Very good layout on MA now :)
GaffL - Keep up the good work
GOBLE - Very long time no see
Komsip - Getting better and better for every song
LittleElk - AEAEAEaeaeaeAEAEAElgh!
Washi - Keep up the great artwork and music :)
Zerblatt - Heyz!
and ALL the people at DALnet #Modarchive #Traxinspace #Mike_Oldfield
#Synth.se #CWM
and EFnet #Trax #Scene #MIDI
and of course YOU who listens to my music ;)
