When you leave for work each day, do you ever wonder if you are make it back home alive? Of course, we all know that life can end at any given moment and that it is precious, but what is it really like to live each day in a constant battlefield? For the people of Baghdad, they live each and every day of their lives with guns going off around them and bombs blowing up, yet they continue to go about their day to day lives. For them, death and destruction is part of the rhythm of life…
…Which is why I set death and destruction to rhythm in this song. “Baghdad” was made to illustrate musically what some people experience on a daily basis.. This is an instrumental which means there are no words or lyrics, except for a few samples that I’ve included in there. I would prefer that you use the Soundclick link, because that helps my chart position on there, but feel free to use the second link if you would like to instead.
Hey, on my iPhone (had a hard drive crash on maim computer) can’t get anything to play. Will return. Like the idea behind the song and looking forward to hearing it.
I must admit Trey I liked the haunting one better. I’m not sure I’m a good judge because I’ve never been in that situation before, but I thought that perhaps it should have more suspense, for when they are thrown in the midst of battles. Some high crescendos or something?
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Hey Jannie, hope to hear your opinion soon!
@ Sire, thanks for your feedback. Suspense wasn’t really what I was going for in this track. I was wanting to create more of a monotony of battle, because the people of Baghdad must surely see battle as a daily thing, sort of like the “rhythm” of their life, which ties into rhythm of music. The main difference between this track and “Altar of Evil” is that I consider the latter to be an intense track, and wouldn’t want all of my tracks to sound like that. But maybe I should have made “Baghdad” a little more suspenseful? I’ll remember your feedback the next time that I want to make a similar track. Thanks again!
Well now that you’ve explained it the whole thing makes sense, although it would be harder to market. But then you being a musician and all I can understand how it’s more about the music than the marketing.
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Yeah, to me, it is more about the music than the marketing. Part of the reason though that I’m uploading a new track every week is for me to practice the art of actually finishing my music and getting it critiqued. Not to mention that I have over 150 tracks in various stages of completion, and I figured that I needed to finish them and do SOMETHING with them so that I could move on and work on some new music. I’m planning on a few music projects in 2010 where the marketing will be important, so your feedback on marketability is definitely appreciated.
On another thought, when I started on this track, the city of Baghdad was a lot more dangerous that it is now. I toyed with the idea of renaming the track to “Kabul” or “Afghanistan” or something of that nature, but I didn’t want it to be mistaken as a political statement.
I think you made the right choice. So, this is all about motivating you to completing those unfinished tracks huh? I take that it wasn’t part of your business plan
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