Angels Wings (d-b-angw.it)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Fri 23rd Mar 2001, rated 6 / 10.

By soft Rock I mean the sort of thing that would appear on an "Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock" radio station in the U.S. A good sense of rhythm and bass function was displayed in this piece. The ending was innovative and effective, the beginning had a decent sense of introduction. The textures were nice, and towards the end there is some excellent use of "sound-scaping" with the wailing electric guitar in the background and a sort of ethereal "Angel Voice" wailing sound that blended with the strings really well, giving the effect of the string voice "morphing" into a crying ethereal "Angel Voice". It was a nice sound, and it was very refreshing to hear something with an actual background and foreground simultaneously. All around continuity was well maintained without resorting to lack of variation and interest. The piano sample is not perfectly tuned to start with, but the pitch bends on the ends of the piano sample were just a little too much and did not strike me as appealing. Granted this has the seeming of a stylistic mark, but it lacks the sophistication that "makes up for it." The downward pitch bends were effectively used on the strings. Some of the strings samples were great, the ones that had solo in the beginning were pretty average, or at least they sounded pretty average when played in the low register. An additional sample that sounds good in the low register would have been a good idea, since that voice has a solo-intro role.