Lost Soul

A lost soul just wandering around, wasting his life. Sometimes he will hit a high but immediately falls back to wandering and wishing his life away. He never does reach happiness.

BiaB styles:
Main style = Oreg Slow - Slow New Age World-B - deleted the strings and drums
Drum style - -NSE16^2.styl - Nashville Even 16
String Style - Question.styl - Smooth Jazz

Instrumentation
Bass = AmpleBass Upright - effect = compression
Piano - EZKeys - Dream Machine
Strings - Kurt Hunters Diamond Orchestra - Pizzicato
Drums - Presonus GM kit
I played my wind controller using Screaming Trumpet sound source

I used reverb on all but the upright bass and kick drum.

Very atmospheric! Almost creepy.

I liked the different melodic themes - it kept things interesting.

Mario, that rhythm track is absolutely perfect for the theme of this song! This is super creative! I for one am very impressed with what you did with this one! Thanks, Torrey

Mario,

Awesome! Loved this.

You are really doing some unusual - and delightfully satisfying stuff with BIAB!!

An Earscape. Excellent mix.

A great listen...

This is so original - bravo!!! I love it. Something refreshingly different! Beautifully atmospheric.

Hi Mario,

This is excellent... just like all your music before it.

You've developed an admirable ability to create fine atmospheric music. As I listen, words that sprang to mind were: haunting, mysterious, sense of longing, aimless wandering.

I enjoyed this. It was another satisfying journey.

All the best,
Noel

"A lost soul just wandering around, wasting his life. Sometimes he will hit a high but immediately falls back to wandering and wishing his life away. He never does reach happiness".
Sounds a bit Bipolar to me

But seriously this has plenty of mood and feel.
Well done Mario. Rob4580

Mario

Moody and musical. Loved the playing - trumpet sounds great.

A very evocative composition.

Peter

Wow Mario. First that wind controller is such a cool instrument. That back track was something else. I just loved it. Well done

Very nice, Mario. Like the sparseness. The pizzicato strings really add a lot to the atmosphere in this one. Really nice job of arranging! Very cinematic (like so many of your songs).

Steve

Nice!
Conjures up some dark emotions.

Mario,
the Pizz strings are great as a foil to the smooth Midi trumpet.
"Filmic" seems the best adjective I can locate.
Lovely.

Hi Mario,

Well you got me again, I absolutely love this. Echoes of the cold war/ spy movies of the sixties and seventies, but would work perfectly today too.

You really need to be aiming at some sort of movie/tv placements with these, they are too good to not be out there!

Fantastic job.

Martin

Dark & emotional...
But poignantly conveying your concept...
Lost Soul...
"wandering around, wasting his life"
Very nicely executed!

hi mariod this is a sound track for sure I like it soundtrack playing in back ground of a cool movie thanks for sharing eric

Thanx so much David.

Thanx Torrey. It took me quite awhile to come up with that rhythm track. One hit with a lot of misses

Thanx Floyd. BiaB give me lots of ideas and snippets to work with. I like experimenting with it and coming up with different themes.

PS - you only hear the ones that work

Thanx for this very kind review.

I'm glad that I can be of service.

Thanx so much Noel. I really like ambient and new age music. I find it very relaxing.

Rob, thanx for listening. Maybe he is bipolar, who knows?

Thanx Peter. The trumpet is called Screaming Trumpet. At high velocities it screams but this is what you get at low velocities.
I think is sounds pretty good.

Thanx Scott, much appreciated.

Thanx Steve. I like those strings also.

Thanx Captain!

Thanx Ray. I'm glad that you like it.

Martin, thanx so much for those extremely nice comments.

Thanx Jim. I thought of that intro after I wrote the song!

Thanx for listening Eric. I appreciate it.

Mario,
all you need is a freestyle short story teller, someone with William Burroughs flavor for this. A really cool journey of it's own. I am impressed by your outsider musical experiments.
Listens very well! Thank you for sharing.

Misha.

Very cool and atmospheric. Liked that drag on the beat, original!

Great atmosphere, lots of room for each instrument. Really enjoyable mysterious melody and gloomy chording. Great sounding bass and trumpet. Drum track is especially scary, I was wondering all the time is the lost soul going to miss a beat

Janne

Noel said, "As I listen, words that sprang to mind were: haunting, mysterious, sense of longing, aimless wandering."

That covers it!

We'll only add that the arrangement is excellent, the mix is superb in its spaciousness and melodies are captivating.

Excellent!

J&B

Hello Mario,

This is a very nice, moody song. I read the word 'haunting' sometimes, but to me it wasn't like that.
Probably those trumpets prevented me feeling it like that. The drums caused the drama, but they were more light footed, if that's how I may put it.
Instrumentals are not really my favorite (as I must have said before), but you make them worth listening to!

Hans

You have a true gift for instrumentals Mario!!! Very nicely done!! Take care. Greg

Misha, thanx so much for this wonder review. That is a good idea and I have someone who might be able to write things for me. I'm gonna check that out.

Thanx for listening and the comments.

Thanx Janne. I am trying to give each instrument more space in my songs. I do have a propensity to put to clutter up songs with too much instrumentation, i.e. notes.

Thanx so much J&B.

I'm glad that you are listening and commenting on my little instrumentals. I do instrumentals because my voice scares people!

Thanx so much Greg.

The word that most easily comes to mind listening is "space". I don't mean sci-fi cheese (or moon cheese, for that matter) but wonderful space in the timing and in the mix. The ear awaits what little hit will fall just where. Lovely harmonies and a perhaps deceptively simple melody/lead convey a very nice muted emotion. I like this a lot.

Hi Mario,
Love the atmosphere and style of this. Title just right. Something to sink into. Wish I could do something similar.
Cheers.

Nice work on this - it flows gorgeously, and really sets a calming vibe. The harmonies are excellent and it captures a really unique atmosphere.

Thanks for sharing

Thanx so much for the kind review. I appreciate it.

Thanx Rich. I'm sure you could produce something like this if you put you mind to it. If I can do it anyone can!

Thanx Deryk. BiaB makes it easy to make music like this or in fact any genre of music.

Mario,

I think it is your unique view of the music world.
As floyd says, you are really doing some unusual - and delightfully satisfying stuff with BIAB!!
And I entirely agree with Noel.
You've developed an admirable ability to create fine atmospheric music. As I listen, words that sprang to mind were: haunting, mysterious, sense of longing, aimless wandering.
Enjoyed my listen a lot.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

Shigeki, thanx so much for this wonderful review. I greatly appreciated this.

Hi Mario,

the things you're coming up with are simply amazing. You're creating fantastic atmospheres on an extremly high musical and technical level. Hats off!

Take care,

Stefan

A spy movie sound track with Madrid as a back drop!
What a beautifully done sound canvass Mario!

As an ex trumpeter, always a sucker for trumpet as a lead instrument without overwhelming the other instruments. The more I listen, the more it grows and your ending, brilliant.

Loved this and very near missed it, trying to catch up been gone for a bit .

Truly to me a mystic and suspense feel , The wind instrument just blows me away and the fact you do truly create this... along with midi implementations.

Makes it more creative and unique and exciting.

Well to me you are the Midi King and you inspire me a great deal.

Thank You.