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Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 40: At long last, the grand finale.

Epically joyful to say the least. Absolutely befitting for an occasion that obviously means so much to you.

This one features two things a little neglected in the rest of the songs, those being your characteristically soft vocals and the highly soulful drumming, On top of that, the composition itself doesn't really have the same harmonic or melodic structure, in fact it sounds quite different. No strange, modulating chord progressions in the way many of the piano songs had them. Take prelude to contemplation, this almost feels like the inverse. Rather than soft and abstract this is very forceful and direct.

But alas, this is the light at the end of the tunnel. The postlude to a season of contemplation. And it need not be lyrically sensitive or deceptively complex like the others. Because it is not like the others. This is the celebration of salvation, whatever you believe in. Whether that's the coming of Jesus or the Spring weather or anything else, it deserves a loud, thundering musical applause. And that is precisely what this: A simple, perhaps overly safe but an unashamed, channeled bolt of musical thunder celebrating the new season that's upon us.

And for that I want to reiterate, congratulations on another Easter, Trois. And congratulations on 40 reviews for this project. The fact that just 12 hours ago it looked like Winter and now it looks like Spring at my place... that is the ultimate testament to this song and this project's power. I cannot feel more honoured to have been the first to review all these songs. It's been a hell of a journey, I can tell you that.

This one will get a fave from me for sure. I think the end to such a monumental project deserves to end like the way it began. And thank you again for this project. It means so much to tall of this.

Best Easter Wishes,

Tin3Sn.

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you so much 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I hope that, if time and energy permit, I can embark on another one of these journeys again; this series helped me sharpen what emotional literacy I could muster in music, and it was also a prayer

[bearing you in mind this day]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 39: We're almost there, just one more to go!

What you've made here is SUCH a pivot from the last one, but in a very meaningful way. The other one was about the loss of what you truly cared about, and this is one is about the memories of friends who truly care for you.

This entire composition is sublime. It's anime-tiered levels of beautiful and wholesome. Maybe the most anime-esque song in this entire collection. In that case, it's no wonder this makes me feel something deep inside me. As someone who's just starting to make friends in his adult life, you capture all the messy and giddy beauty in your experiences with them that turn into memories. This also has a huge springtime feel, and it's very appropriate for this time of year. When Winter, though beautiful in its own right, subsides to a more typical ideal of beauty. Something I myself actually am growing to love as I feel more free.

This is not pure Troisnyx, but it's pure meep. And I love it. See you tomorrow for the grand finale, Trois.

[the empty room]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 38: The first of the three legendary closing songs to this project.

Ugh... I remember this one vividly. You see, the day I listened to this we were getting ready for a trip. We couldn't let our dog roam around by himself, so we had to send him to a kennel. That day, just before we were getting ready to leave, this was the tessarakoste track matching that day of Lent. And I listened to it, and alone it was crushing. This feels like a horror-classical ambience of sorts, like Chopin meets Dark Escape Room meets Ghibli. And CIERIMusic is right, every note is devastating. But when I finally looked in my own house.... that's when I wanted to weep. Because I didn't have my dog, who had been there for me for months, just gone. It felt like the room was just desolate, devoid of the one I loved and who loved me. I cried throughout the day even into next and I've never told anyone about this before under my real name.

This song is amazing. But please, if you can... just don't give this one a mindless love response. Because it's so much more to me than it might have been to you.

Troisnyx responds:

To be fair, none of my reacts have been mindless, I've appreciated the depth of your reviews

With this one, I had my own losses to deal with. I mentioned in a previous piece that I lost my mother in 2008. I used that feeling of loss to imagine what the upper room at the Last Supper would have been like immediately after the crucifixion: pretty devastatingly desolate. Sure, there'd have been all the fixtures and furnishings, but the people make it what it is

[récupération d'espoir]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 37: I hope I can keep doing this for two more reviews.

This piece is beautifully hopeful, and the interplay between the piano and glock is a really wonderful symbol of this. While the glockenspiel represents the bright hopes, the piano is a little bit more of the sadder reality I think. I'm not going to fully review it ('cause there's still two more to do and that would just burn me out), but your piece feels like something that should play in one of those Nintendo or other Japanese video games with a rich storyline when the protagonist is feeling defeated. Besides, I think a lot of this can be described through how the piano and glockenspiel interact. Sometimes, the world (piano) is dark and somber and hard to get through. But it's the hope (the glockenspiel), those little flashes of hope, holy hope, that ultimately make life worth while.

Troisnyx responds:

This review is consistent with another someone gave me many years ago, that I wrote sad things with flashes of hope and light in them 🙏🏽

[the weight of one's destiny]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 36: The first of the four-talk marathon tonight.

As far as destiny goes (which is an abstract subject), this is a great one. The initial theme feels like a hero's cry/lament, maybe something you hear after they're defeated in battle. The section after this is pretty standard fare here, keyboard + glock + harp (arguably the tessarakoste trio). Quite nice, but again nothing unusual.

The next orchestral section... that is where things get good. When the bass enters for the first time it just grabs your attention so well, with the violin being such a poignant voice and contrast to the more subdued piano, and then the key change minor section flows as chillingly beautiful as a Spring river. But then afterwards. Jesus Christ this gets good. In fact, how is nobody talking about comes next? IT'S... FUCKING... AMAZING!!! It grows into like a magic cinematic garden of sound that rivals most other songs on this project with its richness and colour and captures destiny at its absolute perest. It's perfection. HOW THE HELL DID YOU WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THAT? IT RIVALS, FRICKIN', LOTR AT POINTS?!

Okay. I gotta give this a favourite for that orchestral part alone.

Troisnyx responds:

I think it came out of a need to build up in a way the piano couldn't do on its own 🙏🏽❤️

[no slapstick, just sleuthing]

TIn3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 35:

Very stereotypical but otherwise really charming. This doesn't really fit in the Tessarakoste pantheon, even in light of other songs with a similar sort of feel, because even for something as fitting as intrigue, this doesn't have most of the qualities that this project holds. With that said, it's not a terrible song by any means. This is actually really effective as a secret agent theme and quite enjoyable in its own right. Not as much to say on this one.

[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.