This is damn beautiful
Reviews for "...and Yet, It Goes Nowhere"
LLAAPPSSEE responds:
<3<3
this is so good
oh my god
Very calming but I feel like theres some sublty somewhere or I dunno
Wow, I was just saying I wanted more of your tunes and I opened NG and this is what comes on my screen. This one almost legit made me cry for no apparent reason, it's just so good and relaxing ffs, it's so nostalgic for 0 reason whatsoever, anyways I'd like to review the song because this one is hella powerful.
My first impression was very positive, the chord progression in this is not too jazzy at the point where all notes just don't fit with each other, instead it's that sweet melancholic progression accompagnied by your classic "air-ish" lead that we hear in almost all your songs, I really like the more muffled notes that are 1/8th-ish of a beat before the next "real" note.
At around 10 seconds I'm a huge fan (it's gonna be reccurent to see me thinking its awesome and all btw!) of the other layer that sets in, which is more complex and less covered by the reverb and all.
Skipping ahead the drum filling the space that is already really filled with all of that dreamy reverberation goes pretty nicely with it too! Reminds me of A Shimmer in the Murk and countless other songs like this, Shell mostly.
The small breakdown at 1.16 goes hard too, if it weren't there, the 8-bit bitcrushed lead that comes right after that wouldn't've been that powerful in terms of entry.
At around 1.27, the little fade out accompagnied with the lowpass (or high I don't remember, always tend to swap them) where it seems like the song is looping to the start gave me small chills, weird sense of nostalgia hit me hard here somehow again.
Finally I wanna talk about the last seconds, that lead sounded like it had some Distructor put onto it and I would love to know if this is part of another song that I haven't heard yet or if it's intentional and is just in this song.
"... pourtant, ça ne va nulle part"
P.S.: thanks for your tunes by the way, I can finally work on levels that aren't using DnB/breakbeat songs LOL, its been a long time since i used one fo your tunes
P.S: currently working on a very minimal yet meaningful level, to reflect on how i view this song (are you okay if i @ you on youtube or/and X when the level is finished?)
P.S: forgot to add that the song being in 6/8 made it so much better
LLAAPPSSEE responds:
Dont cry plssss. Haha. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling. Against the relenting future.
Jazz is generally never about the notes not fitting together. It's about a lot of notes fitting together well. Improvisation leads to a bit of the former sometimes. Depends on how good ya are I guess. Music though, in general, can do with some roughness/dissonance to make some points stick if it's feeling alright. Those sorta "ghost" notes are my jam. It's subtle but implies things. It's kinda like trying to speak a new language when your mouth's muscle memory isn't attuned to it. You can hear the specialized vocalizing but can't reproduce it well. Subtle cues.
I'm a sucker for ambience+percussion.
It's a little low pass sweep from the high pass.
Low Pass = cuts the highs and lets the low frequency sounds (wavelengths) in/pass
High Pass = cuts the lows and lets the high frequency sounds (wavelengths) in/pass
I know I have a penchant for connecting tracks, but this one has no connection. I'm also not using Distructor. I think I may have in the past for a thing or two though. This is just a little distortion/overdrive/bitcrush effect from...I'm not sure -- I can't remember. Too long agoooo.
If you have used my stuff, send it my way. I'd love to see it. Pleeeeaaaase @.
I do like me some 3/4 or 6/8, however it feels. :)