manafphira

[manafphira]

Nokosareta Yakusoku - [ info ]

[manafphira]

I haven’t found an artist that matches my tastes so perfectly in ages, I’m so happy/excited! I’m listening to everything on her bandcamp from the beginning, this track is maybe my single favorite so far but I really recommend the album before this one too

[manafphira]

DAY 520) Atelier Firis - Rabbit & Crow

Composer: Kazuki Yanagawa

GUST sound team is at it again! With their soundtracks that randomly have high abundances of odd time, like this one!

(0:00 - 0:11) 10 bars of 6/8

(0:11 - 0:31) [6/8 + 2/4 + 5/8 + ¾] x6

(0:31 - 0:46) 16 bars of 6/8

(0:46 - 0:54) 6 bars of 4/4

(0:54 - 0:57) 4 bars of 6/8

(0:57 - 1:29) 32 bars of ¾, [hold]

(1:29 - end) [6/8 + 2/4 + 5/8 + ¾] x8

I’m counting this at superfast tempo, and also counting every chord change as a separate bar basically. Some people might want to combine some of the bars together to make the 6/8 into 12/8 (happy 12/8 time day!!), or count the 6/8 as ¾ instead.

I also can imagine many would also count the [6/8 + 2/4 + 5/8 + ¾] sections as [5/4 + 11/8] instead. You could also group it in plenty of other ways too though, I just did it based on when the chord changes are to be consistent with the 6/8 and ¾ sections of the rest of the music where there’s a chord change per bar. I also counted the first of the 4 chords in that loop as 6/8 and the last as ¾ to differentiate between 3+3 vs. 2+2+2. The whole section is [3+3]+[2+2]+[3+2]+[2+2+2], but I can imagine someone easily putting the brackets in different places if they aren’t directly hearing separations where the chords change.

Anyways the fast constant mixed meter of the :11 and 1:29 sections of this are absolutely wonderful to me, one of my favorite sections of anything on this soundtrack, which I loved as a whole. It’s really cool to see a fairly typical heroic emotional chord progression/melody be so bluntly rhythmically chopped up and destroyed like that, while retaining the same basic form otherwise. At this tempo it’s hard to follow if you don’t know it and I love that about it.

There is also this cool “electro version” of this that track I really like in terms of having more electronic audio production, but it’s far less metrically complex unfortunately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRlqxyR2MQc

[manafphira]

I made a rip of the instrumental version of EXEC_VIENA/. that plays after the cutscene of Luca actually singing it because I love it so much. ;__; I couldn’t find it online anywhere so I buckled in and figured out how to record playback. 

Download Link.

[manafphira]

your streets and my spine once entwined now unwind uncoiling in the snow

[manafphira]

I know it's hard to be vulnerable but I just want you to feel comfortable