Summer Is Over - Which Version do you like

I am back to Fusion Jazz as I was composing some years ago. Those who know me will recognize the excess in every way such as many theme changes, full hands piano chords, and over-orchestration but what can I do. This is me. I could probably have done 4 different songs with those themes and ensure I would not need more than 10 fingers to play the piano. Moreover, the 110 tracks of the orchestral version is telling me that I should have stop adding parts earlier.
Nevertheless, you are the judge. You will like one version more than the other and tell me if I went too far, or not enough, who knows.
Cheers

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1982) by Syrel

The Quartet Version: https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/summer-is-over-quartet-version?si=3e068cdb38b64bc6acfe8473097bfae7
• Piano (with 3 hands)
• Upright Bass
• Drums
• Percussions
The Orchestral Version: https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/summer-is-over-orchestral-version?in=user-461764443/sets/summer-is-over-which-version
• Quartet +
• More Percussions
• Full Symphonic Orchestra
• Choir

Did you employ crusher chords in the piano part? You play 42 or so notes at once and then quickly let only 6 or 7 notes sustain such that a given chord is then sounding for a period of time. I invented this technique, btw. Also the mush note process and the middle pedal aura. I'm quite brilliant, tbh.

You are funny. I like that. 42 notes is a tone cluster that sounds like György Ligeti to me and I indeed love the mood he set in Lux Aeterna and Lontano using tone clusters. I did not notice that this jazz sounded like Ligeti ;o) When I say that it requires 10 fingers it is because I have large hands and the intervals requires a third hand to play comfortably. In fact there are never more than 9 notes simultaneously in that song but indeed a lot of pedal work.

Cheers,

I don't like either since I had to say which one man. It kind of reminds me of like a pseudo deep experience while alone drunk in an elevator on the way up to a friends house you weren't invited to

On 9/2/2022 at 2:15 AM, Left Unexplained said:

I don't like either since I had to say which one man. It kind of reminds me of like a pseudo deep experience while alone drunk in an elevator on the way up to a friends house you weren't invited to

 

Thank you so much Left Unexclaimed for the kind words. Yes indeed, the piano style is a little bit inspired by Lyle Mays early playing in the Pat Metheny “American Garage” album (1979), which is why it sounds to you like elevator music. It’s a generation thing I guess. Also, you probably noticed the brass orchestration at 3:00 on the Orchestral Version that are somewhere between Stan Kenton and the Blood Sweat and Tears band unless you are too young to know Stan Kenton and Blood Sweat and Tears. Yours to discover.

Speaking of Bacchus, god of wine, may I recommend to you “The rowdy pub” movement in “Battalia” by Heinrich Biber (1644-1704). This innovative music for the time should have been called “Eine kleine drunken music” and would fit perfectly as background music for your friend house elevator.

And remember, don’t drink and drive when you can smoke and fly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMVI7z5GYRU&t=105s

Cheers,