Labe II : Franky (labe_2.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Mon 4th Mar 2002, rated 8 / 10.

This artist cannot be found from the artistpages, which is a pitty since this song quite good and even made me look for the Labe I - couldn't find it.=) This guy is a Czech and besides that , also a very good composer.=) The song starts with beatiful synthstrings and for a while the listener might expect slow ballad, but in a few seconds the song changes. It gets in a fast "drumline" and orchestralsamples and so the song begins... In times the song sounds like from a medieval adventuremovie and then again like from the battlefield where knights fight with their swords. Extremely nice melodies and textures in this song. It has enough variation to make listening being interesting but also the idea of the song stays together and it doesn't have any radical changes. Lovely piece overall... But what about the minussides? Nothing serious. Drums are very simple, and are the same through the song. It is ok in a way that it fits to this piece,but I missed something stronger. I was also little confused about the "pizzicato"-sample. It was played too fast in this piece since the song otherwise is pretty slowtempoed. BUT, those are not mistakes - just something that bothers me.=) So in other words : This song has no greater flaws, it is effective and it works. Good enough reason to download? Yes. Simple piece in technicalside, but everything that is somehow "technical" is ok. Samples are very nice, but it was somehow odd that the song uses veeery much orchestralsamples but then there is this synthstring...=) Naah, it sounds good and shouldn't be even noticed.=) I liked the horns in this song, its been a long time since I last heard decent hornplaying here in TMA, so this song is a good in that way too. Quite short when thinking about the style :3.23. It is good in the way that the song won't get boring, but... Now it sounds pretty short. Good thing I'd think? =)