Classically trained Musician /Producer/Heathen from the Derbyshire hills
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Death of a Recluse (Piano/Strings)
The piano is awesome. This is big film score stuff. Brilliant! Love Wednesday x
Everything about this is simply perfect. Relaxes the mind, body and spirit after a crap day. KUDOS.
Man this just tears my heart out! Beautiul... so beautiul! This is one of the most moving pieces of music I've ever heard.... I'm so glad that I don't sleep as I can listen to this all night... Thank so much for the download... All the best E.
Hey Mart, this isn't self-titled is it, I read where you were tiring of your current nom de guerre....listening this is very moving. I love the subtle undercurrents flowing throughout your melody. Beautiful ebb and flow with the percussion accents. I love this peaceful soothing track. Would make an excellent piece for film or television! Loved it! Rated of course!
Beautiful work Mart. This is true masterful craftsmanship. An overflow of emotions of beautiful sadness and loneliness but filled with a light that feeds one with hope. This got to me. So cool.
Classic, heartfelt music~ makes one reflect in deep thought. Beautifully done... =Bravo=
The choice of instruments, the melodic lines each is given as the piece unfolds, the cadence and nuances of the lines, the strings (violins) behind the piano, lift this heavy (double bass grounds this so well), and brooding piece into the occasional beams of sunlight, illuminating only fleeting moments of what may have been a life that was resplendent at one time. The crème de la crème is the pause at 3:12...that was the magic after the Oboe (English horn?) and the drifting into the end. Marvelously passionate piece. Thumbs!
Mr Oakwood and I agree on this one. Your a fine producer of all that you turn your hand too but you shine and are at your most creative when you turn introspective and reveal the man behind the persona. Beatifully done Ant
This is the stuff you do I love Marty. Sorry abt not being round much - a brief stop from emptying the attic and filling the car with yet another load of crap but a bonus - an old packet of Marlboro' and a packet of Dorchester were liberated from the debris of tracey's attic (pre nicotine and tar content specified). Nice... But I rant... a beautiful piece full of emotion and the story stacks up for me - I'm imagining Tracey's attic is like the place where the recluse died. Thumzup dude and nice key to play along to. Back to the grind!!!
This is good -love those keys for definite. I could absolutely see this in a movie/film! Too deep for television. Seems like a perfect fit for an ending of a deeply moross subject film. So sad yet little inspirations or glimmers of hope sparkle through the ivories. Very haunting and yet reassuring at the same place in time. This is cool -MIke
Absolutely gadgeous. Belongs in a movie for sure. J&P;
Piano sounds great with some dramatic classical flourishes. Strings really flesh out the piece - haunting and atmospheric. James
Yes!
Excellent work Mart, this would do really well as a movie soundtrack. Love the little arpeggiated sequence around th 0.58 mark - shades of the classical masters. Lovely key changes, dark feel to this one, very easy to imagine it working really well to good visuals. Hats off dude, this one deserves serious praise. D
Cooltrack, Lovely strings and piano work. Like the wind instrument coming in at the end. Quality!
Fanstastic start Mate,but that chord change at 1.06 was pure magic.Love the strings from there on mate....cool chords in this piece.Pure soundtrack material Mart.Reverb a plenty just how we both like it..
Such a beautiful piece of music.
This is a pretty dramatic piece. I'm impressed with your range of expression - I was expecting a ride through many different places within my mind and I find this heartfelt, emotional piece that is beautifully done - a very unexpected, nice surprise. One thumb is not enough.
Awesome track. I wish I had more to say, but I'm still really really tired from work. Tired Thumbs Up!
oh how we build those walls! Super use of melancholy that expresses the intention and thrust of the narrative, thats not an easy thing to do, and that you give us that glimpse of the story behind it really enhances the listen. Lovely track - sincere.
Congratulations on producing a very lovely piece of music.
Piano playing is excellent and the strings add so much to this mellow and emotive piece of music. Love the quotation in your artist comments. Love Wednesday x
This is a wonderful emotional piece of music and those strings are fantastic with the piano and touch of oboe but we wouldn´t expect anything less from you. Read your write up first before listening and you took us there to visualize the scene. Perfect movie soundtrack if ever we heard one. Has to be up there with your best Mart. Massive thumbs!!!!
Perhaps the saddest sounding track you've produced to date, mate. But if "Death of a Recluse" refers to the end of the whole KtA persona, perhaps it's a good thing that you're shaking off the past and starting again. Still though, shame to see the end of KtA... I'd had such hopes for our collab. :( Great track though - thumbz earned for the pure emotion translated to music. If this was playing at the tearjerker scene in a movie I'd prolly be bawling like a french footballer. LOL
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First off, let me say that Mart (aka Kiss The Abyss) is one of my favorite artists on this site. The first track I heard from KTA was 'Cosmonautica', an excellent piece of melodic/musical trance. The more KTA tracks I heard though I realise that Mart is always up for experimenting with new genres and styles. This track, 'End of Ages' is yet another track infusing a mix of genres that I have yet to
I love the sound of this cut. It seems well balanced and my computer set up for listening is sweet so I can really hear any thing that's not sitting right in the mix. The arrangement is well done and there are no holes in the recording or performance. The vocals are clear and passionate. The bass seems a bit thin and could use a tad more punch but I still enjoyed it all the way through. All i
Does anyone remember the film Bill and Ted's excellent adverture? and the scene when Mozart sat infront of a keyboard synthesizer for the first time and was amazed by the sounds that came from it when he tried to play? Well if Mozart was to hear KTA's version of his own classcial masterpiece, then i am sure, he would of been blown away. I just hope i am right in saying 'Cosmic Requiem' was inspire