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One of the most creative soundtracks I've listened to, each track is oozing with character. Sound design, instrumentation and composition are so unique, I feel like I'd be able to spot your style from a mile away.

1. Fernweh: Beautiful strings against the howling winds. Quite a lot of closed voicings at the low end during the chord stabs, feels a little dissonant. I would normally advise against this but it does bring a unique character to the track. You use some pretty complex harmonies throughout the soundtrack so it also fits the bigger picture.

2. Ninshat: Unusual wind instrument whimsically playing arpeggios up and down. It feels like its performing a call and response with the wind. Later joined by various strings (what plucked string instrument is tha at 1:33) that playfully pop in and out. I enjoyed the lighthearted yet mysterious nature of this piece.

3. Shuougaïm: The vocals are so good, did you make them yourself? I would prefer a little more reverb on the drums, they sound a little dry. Other than that this is a well made track, lots of low end energy that contrasts really well against the rest of your soundtrack.

4. Anavrin: A huge cloud of complex harmonies, reminds me of Jacob Collier. Beautiful end to the journey. 


I think this has one of the most diverse sonic palettes in this jam, the usage of your voice coupled with many unusual instruments gave the soundtrack an otherworldly atmosphere.  Excellent work!

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Oh thanks a lot ! I really appreciate that feedback :)

To answer your remarks :

1. I like that you talk about voicings, I easily get lost when trying to 'orchestrate' a part and close voicing in the low register is a formulation that helps me understand some results I get sometimes, it was not really intentionnal so that's nice to hear you say it fits the piece, but definitely an improvement I can work on, I'll keep that in mind thanks to your precise wording :)

2. Playing around pitching white noise to make singing wind was ton of fun but also a pain the ass ^^ manually calculating frequencies on automations or sometimes by ear, I would have loved to make more with it.

I'm not sure about the plucked instrument at 1.33, cause there are layers, if we focus on bass pluck sound there is a 'bell synth' (that is very slightly pinched up or down depending when) + a kind of harp playing bass notes at the same time.

3. Yes but I can't do low guttural vocal like this naturally haha, transposing the audio an octave down gave it the guttural feel, and adding an octaver for the low end consistancy, I wasn't sure how to mix all this low end... You also make me realise that being the only track with drums I even forgot to work with reverb on it :/ haha

4. And yes again, if it's been a long time I wanted to try things with my voice, Jacob Collier was an influence and motivation to do this :)

Thank you for the kind words, and I really appreciate the helpful heads up !