Las Montañas Bonitas

The flutes you hear are me! They end-blown flutes are called Kena (and Kenacho is the larger one) and the pan-flute I am using is called Antara. These can be bought here: www.andeannation.com for cheap prices. I LOVE andean music. I did a great deal of study and listening to their music and how they play. I had a blast writing this meditative piece! The title is Spanish for "The Beautiful Mountains" (The nature sfx were found online at a free sfx site)

Las Montañas Bonitas

The flutes you hear are me! They end-blown flutes are called Kena (and Kenacho is the larger one) and the pan-flute I am using is called Antara. These can be bought here: www.andeannation.com for cheap prices. I LOVE andean music. I did a great deal of study and listening to their music and how they play. I had a blast writing this meditative piece! The title is Spanish for "The Beautiful Mountains" (The nature sfx were found online at a free sfx site)

Ah, thank you for adding this!

Every musician should know of the entrancing powers of Andean music!

I too own a quena, but I am an amateur, I am sorry to say.

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Ah, thank you for adding this!

Every musician should know of the entrancing powers of Andean music!

I too own a quena, but I am an amateur, I am sorry to say.

I love Andean music, definitely. I think it is awesome that you have one yourself. If you are interested,

check out Andean Nation's little quena books. They come with a CD recording and a book with fingering charts

for all kinds of different traditional Andean songs. You just have to learn the rhythm and play it back with

the CD. It's how I learned to play.

Their site is: http://www.andeannation.com

They are a safe site to buy from, and they're reasonably cheap too! :)

Verrrry very atmospheric. What I find more effective than anything is the large amount of reverb you used, it really brings out that surreal nature of it. Also if you really did just pick up this instrument and start playing and then write for it, I'm quite impressed, you would have me fooled as an expert. =D

I must say this is a breathtaking new age work. Perhaps you should post this in another category so that it can get a much more thorough review.

I can't find New Age on any of the categories :(

ok from the very begining I can tell you this is very good, you must have very good microphones to record the kena and zampoña like that, not very much to say except that sounds excellent, I may myself a kena, a good one (I have 3 but none is good they're completly detuned)

Muy bonito eh¡ muy bonito,

Your file has a few second of silence at the end that you could cut, well ... just saying

this sounds a lot like Mehdi.. mehdi is really cool. I don't know if you know them or not? I'm sure they're on youtube. look up "mehdi instrumental gateway to the clouds".

i like it.. only thing you might want to do imo is change the pan position from the higher line. it's like the same player all of a sudden plays 2 lines.

It was actually a $40 microphone I bought at RadioShack haha! I had to tweak the sound quite a bit to get the noise out of the recording. All was done in FL Studio. Oh and @BDW-Musician, thanks for the recommendation, I loved them! Absolutely fantastic!

Yes I've completely neglected panning in almost all of my compositions, as a couple of people have mentioned. Thank you! I am now aware of that and I have been keeping that in mind when I write now, and it sounds so much better. It makes sense, of course, I just never thought about panning while writing haha. Thanks guys!

Liking the sound effects at the beginning.

Really like that opening flute. The reverb adds an excellent feel to it. As well as the vibrato it is using.

I really enjoyed the middle section of this.

Awesome piece ^.^