Somehow Stevo got the notion that I was tiring of the epic tomes he included with each submission email, which isn't true:
"Realizing your hate of long submission letters, I'll just say that this is a remix. Luiza and myself did the arrangement and shared the responsibilities of sequencing and performing pretty equally, Prophetik did the Sax. Source usage should be quite apparent."
Peaceful ocean sounds intro us in, which would be mellow if it didn't remind me that I didn't get to the beach at ALL last year. Gotta do better in 2012; nice tabla groove and mellow plucked ethnic instrumentation conjure Chrono Trigger, but then Brad's I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Butter smooth saxophone enters at 1'04" on the main melody. Nice flourishes on the performance there, as we segue into a restrained elec. guitar solo. This is less about the shreddage and more about the tone, emotionality, and expression. Then again, at 2'54" things DO break it on down, with funky wah rhythm guitar stage left, a more elaborate guitar lead, and generally increased swagger. I love how Brad is left noodling alone on the shore as the track fades out, I love the variety of clean + soulful electric guitar textures Stevo & LuIzA employed, and the Mitsuda-esque accompaniment makes me feel like I'm listening to an amazing CT ReMix that just happens to be from Wild Arms, in a good way. Excellent collab that completely plays to the trio's strengths - ARMed & DANGerous was a ridiculously good album to have tracks like this; I hope as we release more mixes, more folks will check out the game AND the album. Gorgeous.
Criminally under-reviewed, but then this site churns out so much
good music that it's inevitable some great tunes will be
over-looked.
The title and music really buoy the spirits - it's as if you've
just passed through a storm, and the clouds have cleared
away...land, ho!
Nice relaxing song from the trio here - it's a solid take on the
original source, sort of remaining in faith with the original given
the calm nature. Brad's sax takes lead here to good effect, and the
background instrumentation compliments it nicely.
Great job by Brad, Stevo, and Luiza!
Fantastic! The source is my second favorite tune from Wild Arms
(right after the opening). Really well done! Makes me want to go
back and play Wild Arms :D
I created this forum account specifically to thank these 3 mixers
for showing some love for the smaller, not-famous, not-Squaresoft
RPGs. Not because Uematsu's music isn't the best in the business,
but because very few people would ever know about the very good
tunes in these very good, but little known, games without people
like Luiza, L99, and Proph and places publishing them like
OCR.
Also, thanks for filling my mp3 player's disks with insane amounts
of good stuff.
i wanted to say just how great a job luiza and stevo did on this
one. i literally had to do almost nothing to fit into the awesome
track they had already put together =)
I love the saxophone here, great job. Great instrumentation overall
in fact, between the sax, guitars, & percussion, it really
creates a powerful & emotionally-charged song.
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