Desert

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Desert

Author Comments

This is a track I did about a year ago for a long-in-progress upcoming game, for a desert type landscape. It's one of my favorite ambient/world-type works, so I really wanted to at least put it up.

Featuring:
Sam Hebert (@camoshark) on percussion, throat singing
Lorelai Lyn on vocals
Myself on zither and recorders, and some ambience I recorded outside
A pad from ERA

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GaboSeefpam8

2022-05-13 12:51:51

This perfectly catches the ambient, i love it!

frumy

2021-02-20 02:22:15

good nice

DL2Electron

2015-03-31 11:43:38

Pretty damn cool you recorded all this live! Man I wish I had access to a studio and some mics and just go crazy recording real instruments. But looks like I'm stuck with a midi keyboard for now..

samulis responds:

No studio required! Grab yerself a Snowball or C01U or something and find a relatively dry, quiet space, and make some noise! ;)

SoTJake

2015-03-19 13:07:38

THat this song has literally no exposure here on Newgrounds shows that there is something wrong. This is a masterpiece from my perspective. Everything sounds perfectly orchestrated, everything is at the right place, the atmosphere, the voice the sound of sand. I am listeing to this song for the last 30 minutes and I don't know why it only has 180 plays, and not a solid 5.00 rating. This belongs on the front page, it should be featured. Very good job, I really admire your work. This is professional level!

samulis responds:

haha, thanks man. I only wish I could make it more available. One of my favorite ambient/world works, even two years later.

phosphorusprocedure

2015-02-25 13:13:57

This is badass. Reminds me of God of War (the more chill parts, when you'd solve puzzles and stuff). I'm unfamiliar with throat singing, is that different from normal singing? I really dig the vocals in this piece.

samulis responds:

Gad you like it dude! I've actually never played God of War, but I've heard of it.

Throat singing typically involves using a low rough note and using different vocal shapes to coax out different overtones, with different cultures having different techniques and styles of course. It's common in a variety of Asian countries including Mongolia and Tibet. Those low groan-like notes you hear at the start are examples of one type of throat singing.