Reviews for Bajo el sol, sobre las rocas

[headphoamz]

I am simply swept off my feet by that beginning. The first thirty seconds of the song are probably some of my favorite thirty seconds of music ever. It's so well-composed, sweet juicy Jesus. I love me some flamenco.

Then you come back in at 1:05, a sigh of relief from the heaviness, and then BOOM they start working together again at 1:27. You have some excellent riffs in here that give a strong sense of imagery - like this is an island that is suddenly under attack, maybe.

Not sure how I feel about the near hip-hop beat that comes in around 2:22, it almost seems out of place. But the general feeling of this segment is very relaxed, like something got resolved, and it's still very well put-together.

Then we come back to reality with the main theme. You have amazing structure throughout the whole piece! Solid closure, too. Might have put a little more verb at the end there to signify that this event echoes in time, or some such sap. Really awesome work, overall. :)

InYourDreams responds:

Hey phoamz! Thanks for the nice words :)
I think I should have kept it simple, instead of going all confusing and stuff... xD.
I actually didn't think of a particular scenario when I wrote this one... I just wanted to do something as confusing as my life :D... But your description fits it perfectly! thanks!

At some point I thought about only doing some flamenco stuff, cause I had a couple of cool ideas, and that guitar is just to fall in love with.... it's a 3/4 (smaller than a normal guitar, but not to small) and sounds really incredible. But I said "NO... I have to finish what I've started", so I went all the way to confuse the crap out of people :D

Thanks again for your review, although I know the heavy parts may be a little to heavy for your taste ;)

[Kor-Rune]

This is fantastic, I love your mixing, that condenser is sweet, and the distortion is very tightly gated, gorgeous sounds. The drums changing at 2.24 is cool, the dynamic is superb. The crescendo at 3.10 with the panned guitar chops is sweet omg.

Solid track again, I'm happy this exists. Good luck in this round!

InYourDreams responds:

Thanks bro!! This, coming from the musician of the year in 2012, sure means a lot to me! :)... I'm glad you liked it. I'm not that happy with it, don't know why... maybe because I spent a lot of time on it and the result doesn't sound like it sounded in my head in the beginning. But I don't hate it either...

Good luck to you, too! It's gonna be a dificult round... you and SoundChris are so f&%king awesome!... I would love to learn how you play your solos and stuff... you are one amazing guitarrist... I need to practice

[SoundChris]

Strong piece - just as i have expected :D Interesting combination of flamenco and metal elements. I love experimental pieces and this is really very enjoyable. Some of the chords are quite 80ties - style. Maybe it would have been cool to underline the midpart with flamenco / fandango senorita dancers and castanetes insted of just claps - but thats just what i spontaneously think. Good job!

InYourDreams responds:

Vielen dank! Ich hab alles benutzt, was ich zu verfügung hatte... Ich hab mir der Kontakt Player als demo geholt und bin so verliebt in das Ding... Ich lerne grad es zu benutzen und hab auch noch wenig Zeit gehabt, sonst hätte ich wahrscheinlich viel mehr Perkussion reingebracht. Und am meistens nervt , dass man es nur 15 min nutzen kann... danach muss man es neustarten xD... es macht mich wahnsinnig!!
Viel Glück gegen Kor-Rune!... ihr beide seid unglaublich gut! Ich glaub jeder ist gespannt auf euren battle :)

[ChronoNomad]

Wow, this is a pretty unique fusion you've got going on here! I really dig the various cultural and ethnic juxtapositions, and I felt that your transitions were solid and quite fluid. You can certainly be forgiven for not incorporating Arabic, as well. I was just starting to feel like the melody from 1:50~ was getting a little too monotonous when you threw in a sweet percussive transition and switched gears, so that was some good timing.

I am admittedly a little disappointed in the rather sudden ending. I get what you're going for, but it feels like it needs a little extra something to really sell it. It could be as simple as a cymbal crash, but there are plenty of options. Well, that's just my opinion, anyway.

Excellent job, man! Just like you, I absolutely love that Peruvian guitar. Best of luck in Round 3!

InYourDreams responds:

Hey C-dog! :P
Thanks for the nice words ^_^... I wanted to experiment, but I think it could have been better... I still need to practice theory and my playing a little more... I used to do that, but now I only play and barf some music out of my sistem xD... this contest is really pushing me though.

I'm sorry I disappointed you with my ending... I think I know what went wrong there, but now it's to late to change it... maybe after the judging.

Good luck to you, too! :)