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[hope against all hope]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 34:

This is one of those pieces that hits at a hard truth, especially given today. Faith doesn't come in light, joyful beauty all the time. It comes in what this song depicts... a somber, sometimes strange but ultimately unrelenting force of good and beauty.

Here, we have a song that breaks from traditional religious music... not boisterous songs of joy and good will, not depressive, solemn hymns, not even intimately personal in the way you made Kyrie Eleison. Something more active, a side of faith I feel has often been neglected, especially in my own life.

Another composition that was much better the second time around. I guess a year of maturing growth (and a year of complete social upheaval), they do give you a better idea of what faith means don't they?

[blue hour]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 33:

A beautifully warm composition! I feel the dusk colour quite well here, and it makes me think of those last few splotches of color just before darkness totally sets in. This is also a very romantic composition, and hearing it in context with your vision makes me feel so fuzzy and uplifted. We're in mid-late April, and where I live now the days are becoming exactly like what you've clearly tried to paint. Just an hour ago I was on a walk, and I saw the final light of day fade into night. It's a really magical occurrence isn't it? How we can see a quintessential source of guidance fade, only to experience another form of beauty later? God must really love us.

[the stuff of my recent dreams]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 32:

Unfortunately this one is not as memorable as the others. If anything, it is very much undercut in theme representation by being far too peaceful. This feels too much like a Chopin sonata that maybe you could listen to right before bed, not a haunting nightmare.

With that said, maybe this is coming from experience. I'm fortunate enough to have not had nightmares all that often, so maybe understanding this one is harder to grasp. But it's not like this is an altogether terrible song. Far from that. It at least feels authentic, if maybe hard to understand, so that's good. And it's not a super bright song. It does give off a nightly vibe, and that dose fit with peemy dreams and sadness. You even tagged it "melancholy and sad", which the song clearly is, so I can't totally pull it down.

I'll give this 4 stars, the benefit of the doubt. This is not a bad song in the slightest, but it's harder to personally recommend this one over others.

[splish splash]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 31:

A well-mixed piece in multiple senses. First off, in the simplest way possible, it just has clear sound quality. But beyond that, this piece is actually more interesting than meets the eye:

It's quite apparent to me that you had this image of the fish's movement, as this piece very much alternates between fish circling around and jumping out, from dark blue to bright blue water. It also is very fascinating to me that this piece isn't exactly structured in the traditional sense. Sure there's alternation between smooth and soft to more rigid and playful, but ultimately none of the sections are as harmonically or melodically similar as each other. So not only is the imagery "well-mixed", but the composition holds up well in spite of the disparate sections.

This almost feels like "when the conscripts go to bed" maybe mixed with "daffodils". Something along those lines. I can see why this was difficult, there's more happening than lets on at first.

[alone with a friend]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 30 (the other one I've DMed you on Bsky):

Unabashedly intimate in the best way possible. This one speaks volumes in how sensitive and personal it is. There is no keyboard or flute to hide behind, in a stereotypical beauty that seems to hide real feelings sometimes. There's just a drum, mixed almost to perfection, speaking so much without words, harmonies, or even melody. Your title of "alone with a friend" is a perfect paradox. You are fundamentally in solitude, yet also with the people you love. It is safe to say that your description are poetry in and of themself and then they are captured flawlessly within the music.

This is one of those pieces that proves drums can be one of the most raw, expressive instruments of them all. And you definitely have shown it here. By the way, I'm the one who sent ADR3-N here. I'm technically responsible for her review. And she captures the spirit better than even I did.

Thank you for sharing this with us, Trois.

[at peace with the world]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 28:

Slightly more... peaceful than the last review, both in song and in my writing.

I am thinking right now about both images you've described and somehow this captures them in like a half-to-half proportion. It's not even the feels alone, it's the imagery. It feels like equal parts lying in the grass in the sun and gazing up at the stars at night. I can see both simultaneously. This music also absolutely belongs in an anime during one of those reflective, calm moments. It's really beautiful and peaceful.

Though not emblematic of the spirit like other songs, here is yet another one that I could easily recommend as one of the project's stronger points. That is, something that justifies the entire experience.

[running on empty]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 27: Goddamn it I forgot Saturdays were part of Lent. That's why there are doubles from this point to the end.

This is like the sad version of prelude to contemplation. Both very minimalist and efficient pieces with a level of thoughtfulness to them that can be hard to find these days. Either way, it's been obvious for some time that the latter is more my favorite, but I see some genius in this too. The piece mostly stays very sparse until the last minute and 30 seconds or so, where it feels like a breakdown and surrender to the rain. You do give me a lot of greys in this piece, but perhaps that is because I'm reading the description.

It's easy enough for me to imagine this as like "Troisnyx scores and makes a 1920s silent flick" or something along those lines. I would, again, call this sort of the dark, despondent side of prelude to contemplation. It's the best descriptor I have.

Troisnyx responds:

Funny you talk about silent flicks: I extrapolated on this motif for a film scoring competition once. I still have the clip even though I didn't get anywhere with it

[daffodils]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 26:

Such a unique and unforgettable composition. This is one of my absolute favorites too, right up there with prelude to contemplation and 99 hopefuls.

Daffodils is both resonantly beautiful and so playful that it's nothing short of unbelievable. It just feels like... the most meep Spring timeever. I don't get how a composition can be so perfect. Everything about this is just adorable and full of life in a way that totally sets it apart from everything else in this collection. Not a single other song here sounds anywhere close to this in vibe, it's truly amazing!

In terms of Spring songs, this has now become the third major one that actually makes me look forward to what's otherwise my least favorite season. That is seriously amazing. This gets an instant favorite, and if this is messy... time for me to start writing messy.

[screaming into the void]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 25:

A rage with a beautiful purpose.

[perfluorocarbon]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 24:

Superb beyond all recognition. I forgot just how good this was until relistening a year later. I thought this was mediocre, perhaps because I confused it with another track, but this is just fucking incredible. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO WRITE SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL?

I can't... I can't even begin to describe how great this is. The instrumentation is just perfect, the chord progression is heavenly, and the imagery is magic. It's like a mix of the ocean, a stasis chamber, outer space, and the otherwordly judge in one, shifting seamlessly across shades of blue. Maybe it's not the way I would have pictured blue consistently as a true synesthetic, but the colors you paint in this are unreal.

I'm absolutely amazed by this listening now, a year later. I can't believe I overlooked how good this was.

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you so much!

Of note is that the cover artwork for tessarakoste features me hovering in a vat of perfluorocarbon, but because the liturgical colour of the season is purple, that's the background colour, and not blue adgjkjfshjkdfs

But yeah, outside of that detail, it's the album artwork track!