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I wrote an Adagio for Adagio XD! Having lost her ability to sing following the movie, I think it would only be appropriate for her to attempt to express her feelings through other means. My interpretation of Adagio is mainly based on stories like Open Door and head cannon ideas of her hidden compassion of the other Dazzlings, feeling responsible for them, and having failed. Also, considering the possibility of their immortality, I think she would have a lot to say after all that time, even if they aren't in words.

Maria Grigoryeva did a fantastic job on the violin. When I first heard the recordings, I was all giddy like a school girl XD! You can check her out on her website. - http://www.mariagrig.com/

Jowybean also did an amazing job with the art. He definitely captured the feel I was going for and I couldn't have asked for a better outcome. Check him out here. - http://jowybean.deviantart.com/

With Maria's Performance and Jowybeans art I'm super pleased with how this came out :)

Having spent so much time on this, and having been over two months since my last song upload, I'm actually a bit nervous about this. Despite that I'm always open to feedback in the hopes of improving. I hope to get back into the swing of things by opening this year with one of my more ambitious pieces.

Links / Download --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bandcamp - https://ghostxb.bandcamp.com/track/adagios-adagio-feat-maria-grigoryeva Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/ghostxb/adagios-adagio-feat-maria-grigoryeva/s-cgOyfTwitter - https://twitter.com/MeGhostXb

About This Song (TLDR Section XD!) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is one of those ideas I've had for a long time but have been putting off for the right inspiration. I also don't think I could have pulled it off with my previous knowledge. In fact, my previous Dazzlings album had many ideas that I ended up not following through with because I simply didn't have the musical knowledge to pull it off well, but I've come so far since then. Over the course of a few weeks, I've re-written this from scratch four times because I was struggling to get the right feel. One version was musically pleasing, but it ended on a Dorian scale and sounded triumphant and that wasn't really what I was going for. I wanted to write a piece that was thematically appropriate and had intent and purpose behind it, not just a (first decent thing I come up with and slap Adagio's name on it) kind of thing. Eventually I came up with this. To start off with it constantly modulates between two minor keys to maintain a dark, unsettling feeling, the kind of mood we'd expect from Adagio, and then it opens up into something much more raw and powerful, like Adagio expressing her self more honestly and openly when she believes no one is around to witness it. Being stubborn and overly proud, I don't think she could bare to let anyone, especially the other Dazzlings, see her more vulnerable side. Hence the desolate winter setting. Also living in Canada, I'm automatically prone to winter themes during winter XD!

Thought I'd make a heroic theme for those cheesy (but awesome) costumes from Legend of Everfree. I tend to favor strings a lot in my compositions. So for this one, I thought I'd give more spotlight to Winds and Brass. I'm quite pleased with the heroic feel of this one. Let me know what you guys think :)

Also there wasn't really any art with the feel I was going for so I commissioned Sweet-Pillow for the cover image. I think she did a fantastic job :) Be sure to check her out here! - http://sweet-pillow.deviantart.com/

Also shout out to Lycan for coming up with the song title. I was kinda struggling with that XD!

And now my second brony song! This one was featured in the Bronies for Good album "Faithful and Strong". I still remember putting in a ton of effort into this and wanting so bad to be in the album XD!

Art courtesy of harwicks-art, check him out here :) - http://harwicks-art.deviantart.com/art/Under-the-Story-Tree-346785953

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Hey guys, I finally decided to upload the very first song I made since becoming a brony. This song was featured in the second bronies for good charity album "Seeds of Kindness".

Art by harwicks-art, check him out here! Fun fact, this was also his first pony art XD! - http://harwicks-art.deviantart.com/art/Onward-Ponies-271227370

These series of albums have always been close to my heart, as it is pretty much what initiated me into the brony music community. While they may not be as popular as they were back then, I still wouldn't hesitate to participate in one if another one gets announced.

There are a few other songs I plan on remastering and uploading. Some of them have just never been uploaded to this channel, or were just part of more obscure releases, or were never even published aside from some forums.

Solo strings and choir are two of my favorite things, so it made sense to use them to remix one of my favorite songs this season, Luna's Future by Daniel Ingram :)

Art from dzetaWMDunion, be sure to check her out :) - dzetaWMDunion - http://dzetawmdunion.deviantart.com/art/Spirit-of-hearth-s-warming-yet-to-come-609081753

This was a lot of fun to make, but also very challenging. My first attempt at this was just a straight up adaption of the original but that was too boring and easy. Instead I recreated the vocal track wit Cello, and I used that as a base to write a string quintet, with choir for added atmosphere and epicness. Hope you all enjoy it :)