ReMix: Super Metroid 'Lonely Petals'

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Super Metroid

 Doug writes:

"So this one is a piano improvisation on the second Brinstar theme which I did for Reserve Tank: VARIAtions.  I was reluctant on submitting it but I think now perhaps it's worth a shot.  I'm sad to admit that Metroid is another game that I haven't played.  However, I love this track and decided to see what I could do with it!  Enjoy :)"

Wat!? Ain't played no Metroid? Or Super Metroid, rather? ShameUltima. It is, as they say, all good, however, since DrumUltima makes the excellent musics, regardless of his empirical experience with the games he happens to be arranging. Piano here is a little distant/watery, but that does jive with the title - it does sound lonely, perhaps fitting background music to a film scene in which a melancholy dowager walks down a leaf-covered sidewalk on a cold Autumn morning... alright, you got me, I just wanted to work the word "dowager" into a writeup... somehow. It's a little ironic that, while Doug's last mix was ALL drums, this one has none... although piano does often get categorized as chromatic percussion. For a first solo piano mix, this is some very solid stuff, and it's all the more impressive as an improvisation. It's simpler & rawer than Doug's other, more elaborate arrangements, and it leans effectively on performance for impact, with dynamics and tempo both keeping things wonderfully human. Some of the modifications to the progression & intonation are really fascinating - I could see building additional, complete arrangements of the source around these ideas, milking them for even more, which is definitely a compliment to the artist's creativity.

This is brooding, dark, stewing source material, and while Doug definitely keeps the brooding & and the dark, he's altered the stewing to more of a full course dinner: something with more range, emotion, and development. That's exactly what you need to do to pull off a solo piano piece, in my opinion, so kudos for a wonderful take on a classic theme and for showing even more versatility as both an arranger and a performer. Now go play the damn game already :)

― djpretzel

Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
this remix is love... :D

- Theophany on August 19, 2009
Where more of the improv starts around 1:15 reminds me of Charlie Brown, u know the sad parts like when their puny tree falls down that was so cute.

. .I love Charlie Brown . .

Oh right the mix! was this rehersed? There doesn't sound one intonation mistake !! And there's a climax to the piece and everything :))

Nice work DrumUltima this shows ur mellow side for all it's wonderful. . mellowness..

- Mtlbro on August 10, 2009
Lucentas;566875 wrote: There need to be way more piano arrangements of Metroid stuff than there currently are.

I agree. Super Metroid's music lends itself very well to being arranged as a piano or jazz remix.
I thought that the remix at hand was a little too long, to be honest. The first two minutes are awesome, but at some point in the later half, it starts kinda meandering, and the last minute is like a really, really dragged out outro.
Still a nice remix.

- Martin Penwald on July 28, 2009
When I met DrumUltima at Magfest, I let him know I really liked his track in Darkesword's tribute album. One of my favorites on there. Nice that this got posted. :) Though I can't believe you've never played Super Metroid... lol Hop to it man!

- JaDE ARaN HaRuNo on July 22, 2009
I've had this mix in my play list for some time now and I think it is one fantastic mix. It's Super Metroid, it's piano, and the arrangement is a great take on the source tune. What else could one ask for?
Keep it up!!

- jintoreedwine on July 20, 2009
Very beautiful piano arrangement! Once it dove into a new path, I was in awe. I wasn't expecting it to be so uplifting! Very nice! :)
Only gripe I have is the recording quality, but the arranging makes up for it! :D

- MattInc on July 18, 2009
Rozovian;568292 wrote: We're so not friends anymore, Will. :P
This is beautiful. Unfortunately it clips, and is pretty heavy around the low-mid area. Despite that, it's one of my favorites from VARIAtions, so much emotion. Reminds us that not everything on OCR has to be orchestra+guitar+a dozen different synths+sidechained to six layers of bass drum+three levels of EQ per channel+kicthen sink... :D He also did that with his last controv... I mean remix. :P
Beautiful, dude.

Then I guess we're not friends anymore either... except I have played Chrono Trigger and a little Super Metroid. BUUUH!
And you nailed what I was saying earlier.

- neblix on July 18, 2009
Willrock;566933 wrote: Btw don't be ashamed about not having played super metriod. I haven't played it either.
Or Final Fantasy.
Or Chrono Trigger.
Or Donkey Kong.
Ok i'm going to stop now :tomatoface:

We're so not friends anymore, Will. :P
This is beautiful. Unfortunately it clips, and is pretty heavy around the low-mid area. Despite that, it's one of my favorites from VARIAtions, so much emotion. Reminds us that not everything on OCR has to be orchestra+guitar+a dozen different synths+sidechained to six layers of bass drum+three levels of EQ per channel+kicthen sink... :D He also did that with his last controv... I mean remix. :P
Beautiful, dude.

- Rozovian on July 18, 2009
Definitely one of my favorites from VARIAtions, nice to see it get posted in it's own right, even though it's been around (for anyone who checked out the album anyway) for a while now.
This song (as well as quite a few others on that album) is a fine example of how just when you thought there wasn't room for another "Brinstar Red Soil Swampy Area" mix, there clearly is! This theme has been taken in so many different directions, even more than once with the piano now, but it never gets old, piano fans won't want to miss this one.

- ZealPath on July 17, 2009
Absolutely beautiful. Without a doubt anyone that has never enjoyed piano will definately get addicted to this right away. A+must listen indeed. :puppyeyes:

- ChaosPlayer on July 17, 2009
This is a nice piano arrangement of a great theme

- a_d on July 15, 2009
Btw don't be ashamed about not having played super metriod. I haven't played it either.
Or Final Fantasy.
Or Chrono Trigger.
Or Donkey Kong.
Ok i'm going to stop now :tomatoface:

That would be a good idea - you might just get lynched for your blasphemy, Will :tomatoface:.

- Gario on July 15, 2009
This is pure awesomeness... great emotional piano playing, I love it :D
Btw don't be ashamed about not having played super metriod. I haven't played it either.
Or Final Fantasy.
Or Chrono Trigger.
Or Donkey Kong.
Ok i'm going to stop now :tomatoface:
Still, another dosing of drumulitma awesomeness is always nice :D
Great stuff.

- Willrock on July 15, 2009
That was absolutely marvelous. There need to be way more piano arrangements of Metroid stuff than there currently are. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with a monopoly of technotronicadustrial stuff, but...one of the main things I love about this site (besides, you know, great music) is that I get to hear people take a source tune I know and love and put an entirely different spin on it, lifting it from its original atmospheric context and bringing it to new dimensions of mood and form. And this is exactly what DrumUltimA has done here.
djpretzel was right--this does evoke strong imagery of a melancholy walk through the countryside in autumn or winter, with the grey skies and chill air matching one's mood as one engages in bittersweet nostalgia...
In a word (or three), this mix is powerful. This mix is transporting and transforming. This mix is beautiful.

- Lucentas on July 15, 2009
Nice improve on that theme - I'm surprised no one did anything like this to that song before, seeing how well it worked. I have some issues with the production (it's a little muffled), but the arrangement was great enough to make up for it. Nice work, Doug!

- Gario on July 15, 2009

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