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GMC Forum _ PRACTICE ROOM _ Extremelu Well Done Orchestration Example

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Jul 15 2013, 09:18 AM

Hey guys! Just wanted to share a great present that I received from my most hard working Romanian student and a great friend - the bass player in Goodbye to Gravity. Basically, what they did, was re-orchestrating a Romanian gypsy song, that was originally written in a style called 'manele'. It's a sort of musical plague in my country, but the big surprise was that, when they re-orchestrated it, it started to sound truly awesome - the power of big guitars, drums and bass, eh?

It is pretty difficult to catch the subtleties behind this extremely well done joke, because you guys are not accustomed to the effect of the 'manele' music genre in here. Our Bulgarian neighbors call it 'turbofolk' They sing about how wealthy they are and the ease with which they spend money abroad at Saint Tropez

Check it out here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4522401/cosmin%20katana.mp3

The drum programming and bass were done by Alex - the bass player and all the guitars and orchestrations were realized by my student, of which I am incredibly proud - he never recorded and arranged something so complex as this piece.

They even gave themselves manele singer's names and ALSO made the DVD cover and called me Cosmin Katana the Romanian Samurai Check out the DVD covers:

Posted by: Darius Wave Jul 15 2013, 02:01 PM

Sound good But as You said - It's probably a bit "too interial Romanian joke" But I know what You mean...we could probably to the same with Polka

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 16 2013, 04:02 AM

Cool! I remember that when my grandpa gave me some old vinyl with Romanian music I imagined how cool some metal versions could sound. This confirms it.