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Adam Mussell - The Solar Dance (final battle)

From “A Tale of Xandopheii OST (outtakes)”

This was something I was working on before I released my album, with the intention of including it. However, I didn’t end up finishing this until now. Honestly I think I mixed it a bit too loud… but I don’t feel like messing with it any more at this point.

So here, have an epic final battle theme with lots of choir parts, thematic development everywhere, and a shit tonne of dissonance.

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Adam Mussell - Passage Behind The Throne/Machinist’s Lab

Just something I wrote this morning as an exercise to see if I could still write orchestral things (which I need to do sometimes for the sake of not getting rusty).

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Adam Mussell - Of Dreams and Butterfly Nets/The Lighthouse

In which I make a weird attempt at programmatic style music with piano, a drum kit, staccato bassoon, triplets (TONS of them), and ridiculous sounding names for each section.

0:00 – 0:56: The Creeping Doubt

0:56 – 1:28: A Hesitant Optimism

1:28 – 2:16: The Dock at Sunrise

2:16 – 2:48: Towards A Red Sky

2:48 – 3:52: Storm/Fear of Drowning

3:52 – 4:08: Cloudbreak

4:08 – 5:17: The Lighthouse

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Adam Mussell - I Carry the Flame (Work in Progress)

So, before I sleep, I figured I’d share this since I’m not gonna get to work on it until I get back to the mainland. The bass parts are a bit sloppy, even nonexistent in places they should exist, and the keyboard parts are so multi-layered that they probably require just playing them back as audio if I were ever to play this live. But I like the textures they create when they’re that layered, and I took a very ‘fuck it’ approach to the arrangement of this. The intro also reminds me a bit of Fadeaway by Porcupine Tree.

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Adam Mussell - Crystal Windows

This is the result of me procrastinating on finishing that last track on the Xandopheii album. I feel like it’s a bit scatterbrained as far as compositions go, and it meanders a lot, and doesn’t linger on sections as long as it probably should. But I like it enough to share it and call it finished, mostly because I used a much heavier/more present amount of pitched percussion than I usually do. It’s somewhat inspired by the instrumentation of Lunatic Soul: Impressions, what with the piano mixed with the really piercing bell/metal plate/whatever it is sound I used.

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Adam Mussell - Claiming Higher Ground

From “A Tale of Xandopheii OST”
 

Don’t mean to spam you all with my video game music… but I finished two tracks in the span of yesterday, so I figure I should share them, just ‘cause that’s what I generally do.

This one’s a battle theme, sorta. It’s also really old, so it had a lot of reworking done on it. I’ve gotta run off to work, but lemme know what you think!

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Adam Mussell - A World Divided (Main Titles)

From “A Tale of Xandopheii OST”

So, I recently re-did this one… again. I think I’m finally satisfied with it now, after like a billion revisions. Hope the feeling sticks. I don’t want to play with this one anymore. Anyhow, in case anyone missed it the first time around, this is essentially the title screen music for that rpg-that-never-was that the Xandopheii OST is for. Let me know what you think of it?

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Adam Mussell - The Cloven Land (Overworld)

From “A Tale of Xandopheii OST”

With this track finished, that leaves 4 more tracks to rework, two of which are already almost done being reworked.

At the pace I’ve been working on it, that means I can see myself being done with the Xandopheii album by early 2012 pretty easily. Yay!

Happy halloween, everyone.

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