Keufon (keufon.it)

Posted by arcturus on Wed 30th Mar 2005, rated 6 / 10.

This song seemed to be more of a practice song than anything else, a doodle that somebody idly created in his spare time. The melody has promise, but the song is so short, it never has the chance to go anywhere interesting. By expouding on some of the ideas presented in this song, it could have easily been four or five minutes long. As it is, there are issues. There are some very messy chords - particularly the one that happens at row 7 of pattern 1. It sounds terrible to the ear. That's the most blatant example, but there are other instances of sloppy chords throughout the song. Overall, I'd say that I was intrigued by this song's musical possibilities, but disappointed that it never went anywhere, and didn't really execute everything as well as it could have. I already mentioned sloppy chord construction. Chords do not sound good when you have two notes that are just a half step from each other. While this style of music can thrive on being unconventional, it didn't work in this case. I was very pleased with the quality of samples in this song. All of them were 16 bit, and sounded very good, with little to no clicking or looping issues audible within the context of the song. Volume levels were handled appropriately, everything sounded just about right. This song was better technically than it was musically.