By Catboss catboss Bandcamp catbossstudio SoundCloud.
Cover art by Homestuck.
Released 4/21/2012.
Duration: 4:36.

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Tracks that Through the Seventh Gate ~Land of Light and Rain~ references:

• Endless Climb by Buzinkai
• Black Rose / Green Sun by Malcolm Brown

Artist commentary:

Catboss:

(original commentary)

Slow songs are NOT my forte. Welp.

In any case this song demonstrates the things I like to do with slow songs - ramp up the reverb and delay, strings, background vocals. Orchestral percussion. Lots and lots of long notes. Music-box-ish ending (and even an interlude!).

This was supposed to be ambient-ish, and vaguely creepy. I actually quite like the opening! I tried to give it a sort of underwater alien feel because Rose's denizen did kill everything in the water after all. So yeah. On the other hand, I think it ended up sort of relaxing instead. Welp konec0 what are you doing.

It's not as if final dungeons can't have relaxing themes though.

Also: Now I'm wondering if I should have added rain sound effects.

Oh I remembered something else: I keep feeling like I have to get over my aversion to weird minor keys, so I decided to do this one in C# minor. Riiiight at the very end though I gave up; the music-box-ish part at the end was done in D minor and then I just transposed it down. I'm lazy, whatcha gonna do about it.

Anyway that's about it for this one.

Next up is LOFAF!... actually no. I think I'll let LOFAF sit for a while, because I don't really have any good ideas for it and I want it to be good. We'll see.

Meow!

(commentary redux)

The Seer of Light enters the Sea of Silence...

Slow songs are definitely not my forte. As such, Land of Light and Rain was the hardest of the four songs for me. I tried using sounds such as the bowed waterphone to create an unsettling atmosphere, but I think the song still ended up sounding too relaxed and even a little sluggish.

Slow songs are definitely something I have to improve on.