The Final Spice is Cardamom for Apple Pie, Cloves for Pumpkins
By subversiveasset
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Cover art by METIANULL
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Released 9/16/2023.
Duration: 3:53.
Listen on Bandcamp or YouTube.
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Tracks that The Final Spice is Cardamom for Apple Pie, Cloves for Pumpkins references:
- Alternate Recipe by James Roach and Toby Fox
- Final Spice by James Roach and Toby Fox
- Determination by Toby Fox
- Magical Hopalong Cassidy Station by Toby Fox
- Spear of Justice by Toby Fox
Artist commentary:
Makin: (album management)
As with all of subversiveasset’s covers, there’s a pretty good music video on YouTube
Wanted to play Alternate Recipe and Final Spice, and then along the way I quoted a lot of other Toby Fox pieces
As you play Hiveswap, you might notice one song in particular, Final Spice, that sounds a bit more like Toby Fox than usual. As James Roach and Toby Fox revealed in an interview on WhatPumpkin tumblr, that's indeed true -- Final Spice is the most Toby of all the pieces.
But I think that it's interesting how the two did their collaborative composing process. Toby's original was piano-only, and then James made his own version (which is "Alternate Recipe"), and then the two worked together to harmonize the various approaches into Final Spice.
I decided to take Final Spice and run with it, with a few references to other Toby Fox tracks. Will you get all the references?
Also, check out this remake of Final Spice by dbnet18 -- his transcription really reduced the work load for me!
METIANULL: (& halstridergaming)
This was an extremely fun piece to make, we wanted to recreate the feel of classic Touhou cover art; paying homage to the origin of "Final Spice". A LOOOT of assets and research were put into this piece, especially with desigining the dress and making the title... " *toby fox voice* its a part of... important chinese orthography