Finally! Yesterday I released this as an album! I decided to go "indy" and release it on CD Baby. (I won't provide the link here for fear it would make this post seem too much like spam.) One really nice thing about CD Baby is that they offer FLAC downloads.
I've made quite a few changes to my arrangement since I posted here about it almost two years ago. I incorporated advice from Neil Arthur Williams, who is an authority on "The Planets". I also touched up the mastering, and worked in a few Bazille sounds here and there (how's that for early adoption!?).
Thanks again for all of your generous feedback! Also thanks to Urs and U-he for creating the best software synths in the world, and to Howard, Michael Cavallo, Jozsef Hollo, and 3ee for creating fantastic sounds for U-he synths (sorry that I've omit other great sound designers, but these are the ones who's sounds I used the most).
mleghorn does Holst
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- KVRist
- 228 posts since 18 Dec, 2007 from Evanston, IL.
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- KVRist
- 251 posts since 19 Dec, 2011 from Colorado
Hurray!!mleghorn wrote:Finally! Yesterday I released this as an album!
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 2 Jan, 2013
Planets has a special place in my heart too... your version is fantastic
I wouldn't have believed Id have liked a synthesised version, inspirational work.
I wouldn't have believed Id have liked a synthesised version, inspirational work.
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- KVRAF
- 4197 posts since 23 May, 2004 from Bad Vilbel, Germany
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- KVRAF
- 1758 posts since 11 Nov, 2009 from Northern CA
Congratulations, Mike. Clearly this was a labor of love. If by this time you're not sick of Holst, how about a synth orchestration of Beni Mora (the Oriental Suite)? That one happens to be my favorite Holst. I kind of got somewhat burned out on The Planets in college - it was one of the few pieces of symphonic "classical" that my stoner friends would ever get excited about. 