New Ambience: Trail of Ashes
Added 2023-05-03 15:55:08 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
As a fan of in-between moments in stories, I created this army in motion. These are foot soldiers, no fancy officers on horseback. Whatever country, whatever year this was, these were the grunts.
The 'action' takes place on a blustery, gray landscape. The once-green grass has turned to dirt and mud. The soldiers are weary, having just survived one battle and probably on the way to another.
Musically this is Celtic-ish. Can you see my air quotes? Like most things I do, realism takes the back seat to cool. For instance, I couldn't get uilleann pipes to sound right, so I replaced them with a hurdy-gurdy, which I think turned out pretty well and served a similar purpose. There's a fairly consistent march beat here, helped by various frame and field drums. The music does have a few peaks which I think helped with the pacing.
My original version had the soldiers marching together in formation, but a I worked on it, however, I saw muddy, battle-weary faces rather than a spit-and-polish regiment. I created a more chaotic group and I thought it worked better thematically.
As this track is in patron-only sneak-peek mode, (live on the site next week), I've included the mixed-version, as well as music-only and ambience-only versions of the track below. Additionally, I created a mixed-version and an ambience-only version with synchronized marching steps that could be useful for the fresh-faced squad with clean uniforms, marching off to their first skirmish.
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
