A Moonlight Prayer

Hi everyone,

Similar to my other recent short piece, I've written a small but heartfelt little lullaby-like melody which is meant to accompany a prayer scene. There's no real background behind this piece, in actual fact, it's just something I sat down and made last night and added a bit to today. Perhaps it's for those same travellers. I'm very pleased with it though, it's quite soothing. Again, nothing very complicated going on, technically speaking, but I think it works better in this simple style than it would more thickly produced.

Take a look and see what you think!

A Moonlight Prayer

Kind of reminds me of Nausica

Thanks, Mike!

I guess you're right about the bells...I did some tweaking to see if I could get a sound that was close to the traditional old church bell sound which tends to be a bit out of tune, but I think I just have them too loud in the mix. I'll fix that, thanks for pointing it out. :)

good job indeed, i wonder what vst plugins u used for the choirs, i use ewql symphonic choir for my works....looking forward to hearing more of ur pieces:thumbsup:

Thanks!

Normally, I'd also use EWQL Symphonic Choirs, but I just recently put together a brand new studio, and I don't have my sound libraries up and running on it yet, so the choir is actually a very cheap and otherwise unimpressive choral patch that comes with Logic Studio. Some post-processing effects and precise playing later though, it turns out sounding quite nice, I think.

Thanks for your comments! :happy:

Oooh, pretty. I can hear it's a special mode you're using, dorian? Aeolian? Meh, I don't know. This would fit really well in the prayer scene. The church organ is the sex :P

Well done!

how about "magnifizing" the church bells by giving it some booooom low pitched frequencies so as to make it sound like a big donkey real church bell " pardon my francais..lol ", u can find the real church bell that i'm talkin about in ewql colossus and ewql ethno world 3, u'll find some bell pads as well that would fit perfectly in ur mix.

i actually had the feeling that u can go more glorious in the end by adding sustained horns in D3 that would follow the same notes then D E F staccato, that would shift the mode into some other experiment, hope u'd try it.

No, I'm not adding more instruments to the mix - the whole point is to have it extremely thin and minimalistic, I don't want a "BIG" sound, just a subtle and tasteful one, so definitely no horns. I might do that with the bells though, although I may just turn them down a bit and leave them as-is...I don't want too gothic of a sound either.

Thanks for the suggestions though. :)

Quite dreamy, loved the atmosphere of it. I did find the organs at the end a little. . . "intrusive"? I mean, instrument-wise it seems to fit, being an organ and this has a "holy" feel to it, but as a song it seemed to be roughing up the atmosphere a bit. But then again, I was never a fan of organ myself so I'm biased. :p

I love it...I'd buy it if it was a soundtrack. Reminds me of the Narnia soundtrack a little...

Ooooo I love the organ. And the harp is nice.

Way to go! That's my kind of music.

You should get it recorded.