Excellent, it’s impressive that you have turned mallet piano in a sort of orchestral tool percussion that ponctuate all your piece.
The video is nive too! It reminds me the disgaea type like of humor (Disgaea serie video games). 
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Hello!
Nice dark - noire type ambience. The intro with the phone is really nice. In this structure the intro - act - outro is really cleared. Well done
leaving thorns
I used to be a rose.
A beauty for some.
holding me close,
but one by one,
the leaves fell upon,
Now still, I have my thorns.
Still, I am a rose.
Synthwave with some of cross hill’s string murmurations.
Enjoy!
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Anyone else entered the Cue Tube Vesper competition? Here’s my entry. I’m curious to know what you all think
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Hey everyone, I’ve been really enjoying the new live podcasts. Long time watcher, learner and contributor to pianobook here. I’m a composer with not a huge amount out there, but some of you may know me from a brief stint at Spitfire Audio, and now a long time member of the team at Extreme.
Something new I’m trying to teach myself is music marketing, and part of that is growing Spotify playlists. With that in mind, I have made one called Soft Piano for Rainy Days. Mostly romantic composers with some modern shuffled in. I know there are countless composers from this and the pianobook community who must have tracks that fit the vibe for this one. Please have a listen and reply to me with spotify links so I can add them to the playlist. If they don’t have the right vibe for this playlist, I may add them to a different one. But this is just the first playlist experiment for now.
As you know, Spotify and other DSPs are over saturated. Releasing music is easy, getting it heard is difficult. My goal is to create popular playlists with a large following so the tracks can reach a wider audience. Rather than only sharing music here amongst ourselves, I want those of us with less recognition to be heard. Give the playlist a save to keep up to date with new additions to the list. I’d like to get to the point of creating a playlist for purely pianobook/crow hill community composers who are independently releasing.
Nice to see the community thriving on here 
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Hi James,
That all sounds like a marvellous idea and intention. I listened to some of the playlist and the title is perfect for the vide you have created.
I have a couple of tracks which may fit the bill, and as you say, any help any of us can provide for each other with getting material heard is great.
There is this one which is admittedly quite long and was written using mathematical patterns to shape the motifs into a structure:
And this one which is just what it says:
Either way all the very best of luck with it and please do reach out if there is anything else with which I could help.
JB.
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Hey JB, thanks for sharing! I have added your tracks Reflections to my new public playlist, Self-Released: Piano Artists. It’s perfect for this playlist but feels slightly dark/high velocity for the soft piano playlist. Really liking Summit and the production quality. Due to the length, I’ve refrained from adding that for now due to Spotify supposedly preferring playlists with shorter length tracks. So more like this but shorter please if you release any like that, or say a 3min edit of summit. Please give me a shout for any of your future releases, cheers! 
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I said I’d do it and I did do it and it’s done!
This is a Library album I’ve created from Guitar Hive, Vaults, Logic instruments & real guitars. There is one cheat on one track where I used a sound from a library I have paid for.
Was thinking of 80s ‘Cinema du Look’ in creating this.
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Hi James,
Thank you very much for including that track and also for you feedback. It is greatly appreciated. I’m thinking of a recording of Summit in shorter ‘movements’ so I’ll drop you a line in the future about that. I’ve only just started releasing tracks recently. They’re in a few slightly different styles. Of those there is one more that may interest you linked below. I’ve enjoyed your playlist. Keep it up.
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Stream Love by Michael J Kiss | Listen online for free on SoundCloud Hello everyone, Just composed this using musescore4, Tina Guo acoustic cello, free BBC symphony orchestra and a little small string gesture. Hope you like it.
Thank you,
Michael
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mickkiss2005
It’s quite an emotional feeling with listening it. Good work
Do you apply a sort of lofi vibe?
Thank you for your kind words Synth Particles. I think the sound is more of a happy accident, I don’t really have much gear other then what I’ve mentioned above, plus the free vaults from the guys here and free effects plugins from muse hub. But to be honest even if this was recorded with live musicians I would not want perfection, I would want to here the musicians, The instruments, Even the room its self, not just the notes if this makes sense. The Japanese call it Wabi-Sabi. Look it up, its really interesting 
This is my first use of the Vaults - Bodhran instrument and I used Tina Guo - Storm Cello too. One thing led to another, which led to this…
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Greetings! I released my first full-length album on New Year’s Day. MOON SCAPE, a tribute to our intrepid little companion and the romance it has engendered over the centuries of contemplating and naming its landscapes.
(This was completed before I discovered Crow Hill, but I’m now at work on a track featuring mallet piano and guitar hive.)
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phantom ember
naviarhaiku579
– Visual narration here: www.instagram.com/p/DF7ubABgFeX/ –
Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves!
– Yosa Buson –
The event Bosun refers to is the eruption of Mount Asama in 1783, which instantly killed over 1,000 people. The toxic ash traveled 100 miles to Edo, making farmland useless and causing many more people to starve.
One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.
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Contribution for naviarrecords:
www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/
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I got permission to show off a clip using the first draft from a short film I’m composing for called “The Wolf & The Vixen”. I say first draft since I will be going in and making changes (like switching everything to Spitfire samples and using other libraries etc and just overall mixing it better) but thought i would share the first draft of the opening cue with the community!
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Here is a recent composition. After watching the film Conclave. I was engage and fascinated by Volker Bertlemans compositions! At the same time I also listened to a BBC Sounds program on Dark Oxygen which also was a fantastic discovery!
So here is “Dark Oxygen”
Sorry to all the “Star Wars” fans about text scroll!
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My first ever song with lyrics is here! Hats off to the vocalist!
It is a fan song for one of my fav games called “Hyperdimension Neptunia” (it’s a JRPG)
These are the first ever lyrics I have ever written so please keep that in mind (and yes… this is the one song I mentioned I made on the podcast a couple weeks ago ^^) also read a bit into these 2 characters so you fully understand the context of the song ^^
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I don’t know if there’s a plan for a composer challenge using the Vaults bohdran but this library is what inspired me to compose this so I hope folks like it and as always, thanks for listening: Stream Year of the Snake by Jean-Loup R Smith | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
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Hi all!
I release a dark ambient EP recently focusing on unpredictability, imperfection and fragility called Holding On.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n1wMQv4Pd46Vx0yT_w--ZFwhKQ2lyrX1o&si=UVRB_nUnAdyHnIlI
Made extensive use of the Soma Lyra 8, Tape Loops and noise from a cassette player
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