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Song: Deserve to be Loved
I can’t speak for everyone, but I’d venture to say that most adults have experienced a time in life where they felt like they deserved to be loved by someone that didn’t grant the same. (If you haven’t felt such an emotion, consider yourself extremely lucky.) This is the song that plays as you walk down a rainy street, alone and tired and cold and angry and confused, wondering why you ever fell for him/her in the first place…
Song: Dark Knight
“Dark Knight” is one of my oldest compositions. I wrote the initial 8-10 measures of this as a sophomore in high school, but it wasn’t until years later that I sat down and actually completed the song as a full-length battle theme. In this form I’m not even sure it embodies its name, but since it’s gone by this title for so long it deserves to stay this way…
Song: Crossroads
“Crossroads” has been the character theme of several unfinished game characters. Generally, it seems to embody a secondary party member who – in typical fashion – has something to prove but not necessarily the means to prove it. Using what was, for a time, my trademark mix of instruments (gotta love the ol’ charang), this is another harmonically simple piece with a simple but catchy melody…
Song: Clowns
As a “ha ha” (think Nelson Muntz) to music professors everywhere, I wrote “Clowns” – a song that breaks just about every traditional rule for songwriting. I feel the need to say that up front so no one thinks I wrote “Clowns” under the impression it was a harmonically sound piece of music, because it’s not. If I have to explain this song to Bach in the next life, I’m in big trouble…
Song: Now or Never
In writing this piece, I envisioned a captain touring his camp, readying his troops for the morning when they will stand and fight in defense of their country. Soldiers are shining their boots, checking and double-checking their guns, and the captain inspires each with a gentle nod and a grim smile…
Song: Surreptitious
Every time I hear this song, I think of sneaking around in a castle. In fact, it sounds like it belongs in FF9 during the scene where Steiner runs around looking for Princess Garnet…
Song: Ominosity
Ominosity is such a clever name. :) I hate naming songs (I’ve got no less than twelve unfinished songs with the name “Battle” ), so I get excited when I actually think up something witty. Simple things for simple minds, as they say…
Song: Bloody Tears (Castlevania II Remix)
Although I’ve never played any of the Castlevania games (shame on me), I’ve long been a fan of their stellar soundtracks. So it seemed appropriate to contribute a modernized remix in honor of a series of great, great music…
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