TheWisestMagi's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[_-={Subito Crudelo}=-_]

Eeeeeeeek

I love you maestro...=P

OH! Almost forgot, you too LadyArsenic, I love your collabs guys..

This song is FANTASITIC....and since it just looped I'd like to say right here that the beginning serves just as well as an end as it did a beginning...actually, this loops wonderfully!

Make up: VERY dramatic strings used here, it made the song very exciting, I often felt myself starting to swing my arms around as if I had a weapon slashing at some beast...The vocals were also exceptional..but at times in the beginning (when the vocals were short and ending abruptly) I felt like they were a little akwardly mastered >.<, they sounded good but were a little overpowering at times to me..just an opinion.

Imagery: Wow, it sounds so...tormented, and is a bit scary O_o..are you guys still alive over there?
As the song opens we are looking sympathetically at a wounded soul, mouring on the ground for a purpose we are unaware of.. Initially we are competely compassionate to the soul, and are compelled to go forth and comfort it...but suddenly it starts growing angry, and starts crying it outrage, and we are taken aback..almost fearful of it..Then as it looks skyward and shakes in pain we realise that it merely crys with pain, not anger...but possibly anger towards sources of pain which are unchangeble...
Later, as were observe the poor bride, she starts to look straight in front of herself, and surprisingly keeps a steady volume and tone, emotionally droning if you will...
Finally, she stands, turns around, and looks us straight in the eye...we are taken aback, and ashamed for having watched her...but she simply stares us in the eye, telling her story through an invisible mode of communication we call compassion..and with that she fades away, forever tormented....

This is what I got out of it..sadly I had to force myself not to edit out "forever tormented"...I feel sorry for her..but the song does not tell consolation to me D: WHY MAESTROOO WHYYYY!?!

Anyway, glad I got to "talk" to you again..

Sincerely,
~TheWisestMagi~

MaestroRage responds:

I hear openly confessing your love via review gets you +5 points of awesome. But the "=P", add +5 points of Jestery, which cancels it all out. Too bad Magi, I thought for a second you were awesome :(

oooooooh, burn :D, I went there, I chartered that territory, here have a map!

There is definitely concerns with the mastering of the voice, that is entirely my fault, will be fixed in roughly an hour. Exporting new version as we speak.

We're not alive, we're totally speaking from beyond the grave, thanks to our state of the art iCross which lets us totally bust out physical properties from spiritual areas.

A brilliantly written description my good sir. You have taken the story from a 3rd party perspective, and to be honest, I have never considered that for this story. It provides an interesting layer thats for sure...

I'm glad you didn't edit forever tormented. It's true :)

As for consolation. The spirit who doesn't seek consolation, cannot speak it. Next halloween time, I will likely tell the story of the reasons behind her suffering. Why the man was never able to show. So many possibilities for that.

Glad you could drop by Magi, thank you for the review, we're glad you liked it!

[~Burden~]

Very nice *makes "OK" sign with fingers*

I guess this would be considered goth...although iw ould prefer to classify it in classical, it's really hard to put your finger on a genre on a well integrated song ^^ (compliment *COUGH*).

Well done piano playing, beautiful transitions really and a nice occasional minor fluctuation in the tempo, or maybe a sympathetic pause here and there..very good emotional playing!

The lyrics were fantastic and your title couldn't have gone better with it..I mean they were just so..touching "...a burden to himself.."

So good...and so often true eh? I mean, no one else can ever be a burden to you, it is your choice to allow them to be a burden to you, and therefore is it not that you are your own burden in any situation?
I would like to think so, for then we could simply disragard things as burdens right?
Once again, I would like to think so, but fulfillment is not that easy to come by ; )...and what else is life worht living for if you can't reach a purpose, and a purpose can not be reached without burdens...so alas we are constantly stuck being our own burdens...

That's what i got out of it at least..maybe it's what you had in mind? Anyway...thanks.

Sincerely,
~TheWisestMagi~

hania responds:

I think that everyone has a choice in how they view this world. No one has some little person sitting inside their head, pushing the 'be-sad' button - it's their own choice to be sad around circumstances in their lives. Unfortunately, most people find it easier to be sad then to open their eyes, see the possibility of tomorrow and be happy. It's a lot harder to cheer up then it is to become sad - it's the excuse many use to not allow their lives to thrive.

The song also touches on various topics that could lead to suicide - eg. keeping silent about their pain, feeling alone... "Softly stirring silence" to me, this means - gently killing yourself from within by constantly thinking about what is wrong with your life and not doing anything to change.

The last verse - I try and explain how one does make the choice to kill themselves by jumping off a building - "softly falling silence, nothing to hold onto quickly try to turn around..." and yet, they realise that it's the wrong choice and try to live - however, "they reach the ground... safe and sound" portrays them hitting the ground and dieing - safe from themselves.

(it's so sad) :(
My heart goes out to all who have tried or thought of killing themselves - I wish that you see that life has more to offer and stop being a burden to yourself.

You mentioned that no one can be a burden to anyone else - I don't quite agree with this statement - as people do inflict pain and conflict onto others and can make it harder for one to see the bright side of life - and while it IS a burden you put on yourself as you choose to be affected, sometimes it's best to express your pain so others can help you - we are just humans after all.

[{dj-N} Tears In My Eyes [Full]]

Way to be

Once again you did one of the coolest things there is to do...mixing techno/electronica sounds with the sentimental "romantic" (not common sense of the term) feels, producing a kind of heartfelt rave...if that made any since..

I really like when the song drops into the ochestral parts, very beautiful during those moments which seem like they can last forever..

Second lesson? Did you have a first lesson in a different song that I missed? OR is it a kind of thing to do with the "Tears In My Eyes" title, that a mistake was not learned from, repeated, and dealt with a punishment of a far greater magnitude?
Oh well...it just provoked my curiosity is all..

Keep it up Nate,
~TheWisestMagi~

[Liguid]

Overlooked

I don't know if I would say dance, but this is almost relaxing, very nice remix from Mario64 man, always loved that game and this remix is fantastic, neve gets too repetitive and doesn't overdo it, like I said it's very relaxing.

5/5 and get's my download, and DAANG this was submitted a long time ago, very nice anyway..

~TheWisestMagi~

[Turkish March Remix]

Yay

Good job combining techno and classical feels, I enjoy doing that too...

Everything is very well done and I can't really say much, except that the reason I gave you a 7/10 is that you really didn't have to compose anything yourself..so I guess originality, but I still like the song, turkish march owns.

~TheWisestMagi~

[[ F l e s h & B o n e ]]

Very pleasant..

Very well written song man, the way you reverbed the vocals kinda reminds me of beatles, but the song itself reminded me of that new hit "Hey there Delilah" (Or I don't know how to spell the name). But at any rate what I mean is it's a very nice accoustic part..

I doubt you realized or thought about it while you wrote it, but the first few notes are the same ones used in Pachbell's Canon in D (Minor)...I love Canon in D (Minor)...

I'm referring to the G(flat), G(flat), G(flat), G, G(flat), E, D Primarily, then it gets different..it's even the same rhythm!

Great song man, keep it up, your a great accoustic artist really and truly..

Sincerely,
~TheWisestMagi~

[Rig - Ghosts in the walls]

Interesting...

This is VERY cool in my opinion, and yeah..infrasound right? I think whales or something use that...I mean even when you hear the whales in a documentry the parts you can hear do not sound unlike some of the part in this...

I have a question for you though...how did you find the frequency/pitch to create the infasound effect? I would really like to know..this all seems incredibly interesting to me...I love to find out ways music effects your subconcious, and this is a perfect example.

Also, the childish bells and the groaning were perfect stimuli to start the brain freaking out..and now my ear drums hurt...(not to self, don't turn sub on full while listening to song..)

Very interesting my friend, 5/5.

~TheWisestMagi~

Rig responds:

The infrasound was created with a free "horror" VST called Gargoyle, check it out.
Thanks for the support, I made this quite by accident. I was playing around with Gargoyle and I hit a really low note and I was like "woah....this freaks me out". So I built a song around it! :D

[Guitar Vs. Piano 2]

It's all very nice...BUT

As a drummer, I found the drum part in this song ear MURDER...For 90% of the song it was the bassdrum going 1, 2, 3, 4 &, 1...And the high-hat playing on all the &'s, also the bassdrum was overpowering...

The primary melodies and whatnot definately lived up to the 1st, and I'm astounded that you managed to make the song so different from the first but keeping to the principles of it...Also, I'm not a big fan of the guitar fading out to the piano solo, I liked when it just stopped better..

Other then those few points I THOUROUGHLY enjoyed the rest of the song, it was very nice.

4.5/5
9/ 10

Great job!
~TheWisestMagi~

[L'Amour Toujour Remix(DEMO)]

Definately finish this!

Overwhelming potential! I just hope you bring it out to it's fullest! I think the voice-overs might need some more mastering though ^^.

I'll be waiting!

~TheWisestMagi~

[Nintendo Disco]

Go Nentindo ^^

You're my hero.

0:18 - The Ledend of Zelda theme

0:38 - Is this the same tune as at the very end from Mario World? Or maybe just as a transition tune? At any rate it sounds INCREDIBLY familiar..but from ssoo long ago!

0:53 - Tetris!

1:25 - Super Mario Bros. 3! Great game.

2:01 - Pokemon!

2:40 - Credit music for Super Mario Land! (I always loved that song, used to play it up to my ear when I was little..once I beat the game that is). I can't believe someone else remembers! One of my favorite video game tunes EVER! I used to run around the house after I beat the game playing this music until the gameboy ran outa batteries..

3:51 - Super Mario Wolrd! When you beat the level.

Does this make me a geek?

~TheWisestMagi~