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Levon's Prayer
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If you enjoy mixed genres in music, this is the song to download. With a firm base in a Celtic melody against a funk bass and urban rhythm, all this piece needed to be complete was an Arabian flair.
jesse worley piano ballad
One guy with a full digital studio, 20 years of piano training, and way too much time on his hands.
I'm a workaholic when it comes to music, often taking on far more projects than a single human should endure. I start somewhere between ten and twenty pieces of music per week, though no more than a couple per month make it to a second round of writing. At any given moment I'm working on several pieces of music, with about one in three coming to completion and release. The rest are usually stored, as I find that elements of unreleased music often work in current undertakings. Given time, every note that I write finds its way into a released work. Composition for me is as much a part of my life as eating and sleeping. While I once believed I actually had a need to write music, I've learned otherwise over the last few years. I write music, quite simply, because it's there to be written. There is a constant score playing in my mind as I live my life, and my inspiration is drawn from that. Sometimes the music isn't worth listening to and I write very little, and sometimes the music is too powerful for me to sleep.
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Genre
World World Fusion
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#11,405 today Peak #55
#1,759 in subgenre Peak #9
Author
Jesse Worley
Uploaded
September 13, 2002
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MP3 7.7 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
This piece of music has undergone many changes and rearrangements since its original conception early this year. The thought of mixing these completely unique genres together had never before crossed my mind, yet I have found myself drawn to them in ways that I never believed possible. The mixing of Celtic and Arabian melodies over a breakbeat/urban percussion line with a rather rock-ish bass line was a complete and utter accident from beginning to end. I began this work after coming up with the main Celtic melody on my piano. I worked up a fairly pretty intro, tossed the Celtic theme in place with some light strings, and the track was underway. I went through more than a hundred different options for percussion before settling on what is heard in the piece now. To be honest, I originally intended for this piece to be a "pure" Celtic work. The inclusion of such an electronic backbone was a disappointment at first, and I promised myself time and time again that I would rip it out in the end. The idea for the voice came early, and I chose my girlfriend Becca for the work. Over a couple of hours with a cheap microphone we recorded everything from Shakespeare to "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride." The majority of the quotes in the song are from Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." I had just returned from a show featuring Michael Flatley when the idea of an Arabian countermelody hit me. Of course it sounded terrible at first, but over the course of a few weeks, I managed to find a decent accord between the two melody lines. Topping the Arabian melody off with a blast of staccato strings added the edge that I was chasing, and the meld of styles was complete. I never intended for this piece to be short either. After finding such magnificent balance between so many different styles, I felt it necessary to break the whole piece down to a light groove before the big climax. This section of the piece took the least time to write, as it seemed to fall into place as quickly as I could lay the notes on the screen. As a side note, that section is still my favorite of the piece. Additional inspiration for this work came in the form of a story I wrote several months ago. The tie between the music here and the story is not quite direct, but it's in there. If you want to know more you'll have to read the story...
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