truly difficult to express how much I love this song. maybe the best way to go about it would be to say that when I listen to it I am struck with an overwhelming feeling that this is what we were meant to do. we were meant to absorb our surroundings, create from our own reflections, and share those creations with others to communicate our selves and to begin the cycle anew. it is life affirming music.

and possibly my favourite music video ever too. which is quite an accomplishment considering it consists almost entirely of two people and one microphone.

daily song time is upon us... today's installment is a real special one!

<-- the previous day's song | the next day's song -->

today's song is: Inútil Paisagem, a cover of the classic Jobim tune (specifically the recording with Elis Regina) for the SNES's soundchip SPC700

this was my entry last year for Super Famicompo 3's covers category. i chose one of my favoritest songs of all time and had a delightful time transcribing it (i think i've used that crazy circle of fifths motion of the 7#9->dom13 a hundred times on my own since then). it was the first time i ever used the ROM export on C700 and i only did it because i didn't want to spend ages trimming it down to .spc - in hindsight i could've used nicer samples because of all the extra space, but i wasn't thinking about that and the process was new to me. i was happy to use the chrono trigger pianos anyway, and i spent some time auditioning sounds other than "cute saw wave" but eventually just settled into "cute saw wave is the best after all".

this is a 1:1 transcription, i even loaded in the original audio side-by-side to get all the notes lined up perfectly with the original. it's on brand for me, extremely rubato :o)