Christopher Tin & Corner Stone Cues - Madokara Mieru

[spt1224]

I know this music isn't from a video game, but I wouldn't even be suggesting it if it wasn't composed by Christopher Tin, the composer of Baba Yetu from Civilization IV, which so many people seem to love when they hear it at VGL. It would be absolutely amazing to hear Madokara Mieru played at Video Games Live -- even if the vocals have to be prerecorded. Might work best as maybe a pre-intermission song, or a second or third "encore" song.

He's going to be releasing it on his own album soon, but it has already been released by Corner Stone Cues, a production / movie trailer music company that makes public releases of their music regularly, on their latest album called Eton Path. Here's a short clip about a minute into this song (so as to minimize any copyright infringement). A sample does not truly do it justice, so if you're a fan of the Civilization IV music, I highly suggest you spend the $0.99 and buy and enjoy this track, at least. The rest of the album is great, too, and a total steal at $8.99, just like all 4 of their albums, which I highly recommend anyone who enjoys this genre check out, too. Eton Path, and thus Madokara Mieru, are available on Amazon and iTunes (with most songs, including this one, available as Choir/Vocal and Instrumental versions).

The lyrics are from a series of 5 Japanese haiku, and are available along with a translation on Christopher Tin's blog post about this song.

Originally Posted by Christopher Tin

As for the lyrics, it's sung in Japanese, and is based around a series of five Haiku, each corresponding to the changing seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter and ending on spring. Each verse is sung by a singer in a different stage of their life; so a young girl sings the first spring verse, an adolescent girl sings about summer, an older woman sings about autumn, etc. The song ends with a return of the young girl singing about spring, therefore completing the cycle of the seasons. So in essence, it's a song about the cycle of life.

http://www.christophertin.com/blog/2...ara-mieru.html

Note that Corner Stone Cues has replaced the singer from his description for Autumn with Male & Female choir, and Winter with just Male Choir. Not sure how it's done on his album's version, as it's not out yet.

[Tommy Tallarico]

We love Christopher Tiin (and all his music) and he is a very good friend. That being said, with all the game music we still haven't done yet, it would be very difficult to justify doing music that isn't from a video game at this point. But who knows... maybe this tune will end up in a game someday!!



Tommy

[spt1224]

Yeah, I know... it was mostly wishful thinking on my part. If you keep saying "oh, that's a really great song, we can fit that in!", the concert becomes 7 days long

Someone rich and with lots of time on their hands, really, really needs to start hearing all the great music out there that seems to get passed over, and start a concert for it as awesome as VGL. I suppose that kind of thinking led to Video Games Live, so maybe in 10-15 years. Heh, more wishful thinking, I'm sure....

[Terraguy]

Start your own concert series?

Corner Stone Cues... where have I heard that before?

[spt1224]

Originally Posted by Terraguy

Start your own concert series?

Maybe someday...

Originally Posted by Terraguy

Corner Stone Cues... where have I heard that before

Er... I dunno. Their music is used in a lot of game and movie trailers, though.

[Terraguy]

Oh, that's right, they did the adaptation of Requiem for a Dream for the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer, didn't they?

[spt1224]

Yep, Requiem For A Tower