This is not a piece intentionally meant for Pop/Rock/Metal fans, so please feel free to rock on elsewhere as you wish. What this is is a piece that features multitudinous, compressed melodies and a mosaically stitched harmonic map (said harmonies get so dense at times to be unsettlingly discordant, underscoring the suffocating nature of suffering). This piece, excerpted from the third movement of my second Symphony, was written during a time of suffering, however, I took a page from Groß Meister Beethoven's "Hymn of Gratitude" by incorporating a more positive and familiar (though still introspective) part at the end. Said part was inspired by old cowboy westerns like Alfred Newman's "How the West Was Won" and Tiomkin's brilliant "Alamo". Both cowboys and -girls are usually seen as good spirited, carefree..but there's an ominous side to the part as well as evidenced by the outlaw side of the coin. Or one could say, not out of the prairie yet (or steppes, for that matter).
The sound design applied to this movement made it into a hallucinatory swirl. A lot of this was do to my being creative panning the instruments, and the reverbs applied enhanced the dreamy quality.
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