Nemesis 3 (MSX) - We Followed The Sun / Memories remix - "Follow the Sun"
43Arrangement, production: Jorito
French horn, trombone, trumpet: John Stacy (https://youtube.com/thejohnstacy)
Oboe, English horn: Damian Nguyen (https://www.youtube.com/user/sanjuroboe)
Piccolo, flute, clarinet: GameroftheWinds (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQFIzKI61fxibPgfPKeJQxw)
Bassoon: DS (https://www.youtube.com/c/ds_music394)
Vocals/choir: BardicKnowledge (https://twitter.com/BardicKnowledge)
This track goes back a loooong way, all the way back to August 2014. At the time, I just acquired a new orchestral sample library and was experimenting with it. That experiment turned into the first minute of this track, but I shelved the track since, and it was all but forgotten until the free round of the People's Remix Competition, over at OverClocked ReMix, arrived at the end of 2017. I remembered this track again and figured it would be a good excuse to dust it off and give it another go. I did manage to finish the arrangement in time for the compo and ultimately won that round.
However, I wasn’t 100% happy with it just yet. I was planning to polish up my MIDI some more and submit it to OCReMix, but when I posted the track on Discord, John Stacy reacted with a “hey, this sounds nice to play on” I started thinking. While I would love to have my arrangements played by a real orchestra, changes of that happening are slim. So I went for the next best option: go on a recruiting spree, try to get as many live performances in the track as possible, and incorporate and layer them with the samples. The performances by John, Damian, Gregory, Dave and Ryan really added a lot of life, depth and nuance to the track and improved the final result greatly. Good result, good vibes, making new friends, yeah, no reason not to be pleased with this one!
Source tracks:
We Followed The Sun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHso_ZbG2mo)
Memories (Prologue 1) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stiAJHkaL3Q)