New project finished, would love some critiques!

Hey everyone!

I haven't been here in quite some time, spend a lot of time practicing music since I last been here. As a matter of fact I just finished a project and I'd love people to listen to it and give honest critiques. :) I'm not sure if this is the right subforum, it doesn't really fit anywhere. If it's in the wrong location feel free to kill this topic and I'd re-start it in the right place. Everyone probably forgot about me so some little background info: started playing guitar four years ago, and piano 18 months or so after that. Been writing and playing music since, to the best of my admittedly not always spectacular ability. All music is written, recorded and produced by me on student budget. Hope I managed to make some enjoyable bits regardless.

Anyway, it's a three-piece project, or album, and each part has it's own 'sound'. Part one (The Red Cat Philosophies) is very much guitar-based, mostly improvised and contains only non-dutch texts. The second part (De Oranje Ortolaan) is more electronic-pop, half-composed half improvised and all in Dutch. The final part (Quella Banana Gialla) is classical, without text and is mostly composed. All parts are one big track as I feel it makes no sense to listen to just part of it, plus they are small enough to be listen to in one time. Click on the images to download the music. Hope people can find something they like in it!

The Red Cat Philosophies

01. But They Have Failed

02. Sura al Araf

03. Rock That Electric Church

04. The World Doesn't Seem To Move As Fast

05. God Can even save a sorrority girl

06. Happy Birthday

07. Where Has The Door Gone?

08. I'm Here For You Mom

09. I'm Dr. Phil And You're Not

10. In My Head

Big Thanks to: George Bush, Ahmed Saud, Phil Steen, Hilch & fourdevils

De Oranje Ortolaan

01. Begin Hello Head Breakdown

02. Dat Maakt Toch Niet Uit Man?

03. Voor Alle Fans Van Zure Regen

04. Yay And Erik's Apocalyptic Visions

05. Dennis' Zielige Leventje

06. Lelijke Vissen Buiten De Onderzeeboot

07. De Professor Struikelt

08. Lekkere Koalabeer

09. Als Je Niks Meer Weet

10. Het Laatste Loodje

Big Thanks to: Erik Luiten & Robin van Rijn

Quella Banana Gialla

01. Painting of a girl

02. I'm the space invader!

03. Broke but not broken

04. Loneliness & The coward

05. Wanneer het niet anders kan

06. Miss You

07. The New Orleans Blues

08. Spring or how it all began

09. Prelude to Enmity

10. Enmity

Big Thanks to: Auke

Thanks for taking the time to listen to it! You might have to wait a minute before the download starts but the RapidShare servers are extremely fast. You can also download my two previous projects from Sleutelbos. If you're having problems opening the files you can download Winrar (1mb) here: http://www.rarsoft.com/rar/wrar361.exe

Thanks for visiting!

Well, this is just awesome. I've only listened to the first part so far, but I really like it. I love how it alternates between chilled-out, atmospheric ambiance and head-banging instrumental pieces. The processed political samples are a great touch. The ambient sections really remind me of DJ Shadow.

One suggestion: I think that you should bite the bullet and split these into tracks. Yes, it makes sense to listen to them together, but, in my opinion, it's just too much when taken all together. It's like if you were writing an essay, and you wrote it all as one paragraph. Also, it would be possible for me to comment on each track individually if I knew which track I was listening to.

More updates as I listen to the rest of the project.

Also, while I enjoyed it, I don't think that you're going to get many responses on this forum, since this is rather far away from of the usual subject matter that gets posted here.

Okay, listening to the second one. A lot of the same comments apply as with the first one. I enjoyed the short, poppy interlude at about 12:00. If not for being in Dutch, it would fit in very nicely on the radio here in the U.S.

Thanks for taking the time to listen! :) I cut the first part in tracks and uploaded them to SoundClick artist: Sleutelbos - Band page with MP3 music downloads on SoundClick for those who prefer that.