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  • A Lonely Sail

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    I'd like to share a short piece called "A Lonely Sail" with you, guys.

    I wrote it about a year ago and remixed it with MIR (which I'm demoing) recently. It's inspired by a poem by M.Y. Lermontov "A lonely sail is flashing white". It's quite well known, I think almost every Russian can quote it by heart (or at least that's how it used to be in the not so distant past). Lermontov was just 27 when he was killed on a duel in 1841. In spite of such a short life  he is probably as significant a figure in Russian literature as Pushkin (who had also been killed on a duel some four years earlier).

    Here's the piece: http://soundcloud.com/user5802998/a-lonely-sail
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    Hi el-russo,

           thanks for sharing the lovely composition. I hope you are having fun with the MIR experience! For me I think the solo violin line sounds a little harsh in terms of volume when it enters and it seems like such a soulful line that you have wrote for this instrument, especially towards the end of the piece.

    On a different note, I also enjoyed your trio-fantasia on guitar - beautifully played music. Congratulations on the music and best of luck with it.

    Tom
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    Thank you for your very kind words, Tom. I'm glad you liked my music.

    I am enjoying my MIR expeience, although not without some trial and error regarding the dry/wet levels and the secondary mic placement. I tried to process the piano and the solo violin outside of MIR but my skills were not sufficient to achieve the sound I wanted. My sound monitoring environment is far from being perfect either.

    I'm glad you liked my Trio.

    Thanks.
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    W

     Sorry it took me so long to notice - a beautiful composition! 

    I had the impression you need more intense, bigger sound on the strings, so this could even take Appassionata strings with a rich reverb to make it even more so.  Though the performance in this is very good also.   I really like the emotion in this piece and the original inspiration - congratulations.  
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    Thank you, William.

    I'm honored to have your positive review.

    I should have probably used the appassionatas and moved them further away in the mix.
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