As part of the recently released album from A State of Sugar: Ice Cream, Heartsong gives us another one of their lovely story-esque orchestrations. As you may have guessed from the title, this song builds its world around the idea of the Friendship Express acting as the sole deliverer of the frozen desert as it goes about its busy schedule, starting and ending on a soothing music box melody as it arrives at its destinations. If I’m being truly honest here, the song will do a better job at conveying its world and story than I ever could through words. So what are you waiting for? Catch the train.
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A State Of Sugar – Ice Cream | Compilation Album | Various Genres
NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 24 December 2018.
A State Of Sugar are back with their 4th compilation album, full of a heap of awesome music from a bunch of fantastic musicians! Predominantly sweet electronic tunes, there’s also some orchestral influence and a few rock/metal pieces as well. Check it out for free or a donation over on Bandcamp here!
Acarcion & MC-Arch – Humble Dreams (prod. Nevermourn) | Hip-Hop
The burgeoning Straight from the Heart has been pumping out consistent quality material lately, and this track is no exception! Assisted by an incredibly smooth boom bap instrumental from Nevermourn, Acarcion and MC-Arch bring some heartfelt bars to the table while floating the whole way through and never missing a beat!
The Seapony Orchestra – Hearthswarming | Album | Orchestral
Christmas might be over, but The Seapony Orchestra just released a new album to keep your holiday spirit burning! Opening with a jazzy tune, the album mainly features orchestral pieces (including renditions of Corelli and Tchaikovsky pieces) and some are truly touching. Welcome to Equestria interpolates many tunes from the show, for example, and leaves you with an enchantingly warm feeling. Perfect music for sitting by the fireplace and bonding with your friends!
Remember Falling – Until Then | Synth-Rock
Remember Falling (f.k.a. Sights Unseen) has released her first album under her new alias, Monolith, along with a video for its single! With simultaneously dark and uplifting lyrics performed passionately and an instrumental that changes courses multiple times, this tune defies convention and genre. Don’t skip this one if you’re into genre-bending stuff!
[MARVELOUS TRACKS] Agents of Discord – Horse GameZ | Breaks
Along Marvelous, a remix of Manticore in collab with Olly Hancock, and the collab with Reverbrony that was featured on Cider Party, Chimera, Horse GameZ is one of the comeback releases from Agents of Discord released through that marvelous new noise.horse compilation album! This track is inspired by Button Mash and Gamer Luna, and showcases the musician’s proficiency at Breakbeat while laying out lovely melodies! You can bet Agents of Discord is gonna have loads more in store for us in the future so do stick around on the channel!
Night Symphony – The Elements of Harmony | Orchestral / Soundtrack
Night Symphony’s masterpiece, The Elements of Harmony is a musical gallery taking you through many sights and historical events of Equestria, and all while ravishing ears and soul alike with gorgeous compositions and melodies. From the Pillars, to the Tree of Harmony, to the reign of the sisters leading to the fateful event of the uprising of Nightmare Moon, the 16-minutes track delivers varied themes expressed wonderfully with great musical talent. Not to mention the sudden arrival of the God of Chaos – with such a splendid proggy composition to back him up!
[P@D] Seventh Element – Remaining Ichor | Orchestral / IDM
The mix between the orchestral/classical and the IDM/modern sounds make this Seventh Element track one of the best coming from the Enigma album, reminding me of other 7th songs like Shadows and Tetrahedral Memoir, Remaining Ichor looks like a continuation of this song, because in my head and with the amazing capacity of Seventh doing amazing concept albums, I think that more songs, and 7th would release a concept album full of orchestral idm! Remaining Ichor is one of the many proofs that the brony community has talented musicians and are able to experiment with various sounds and textures, creating sound landscapes, waves of pure abstractism! The way the classical sounds change into an electronic sound it’s simply amazing. If I could say, Seventh Element is like the Boards of Canada and Venetian Snares son, with Godspeed You! Black Emperor beeing the close uncle. Result? Pretty good music.
Download Enigma on the bandcamp near you or something.
Radiarc – Here we are | Chillout / Hybrid Orchestral
“And here we’ll be, until life brings us elsewhere.”
Polishing up this elegant and laid back piece, Radiarc gives us a soothing perspective of life through song. I’ve always been amazed at what comes from this artist, the fine details and atmosphere painted; melding together ethnic, jazz, orchestral, and electronic elements to create something organic, alive. I find myself lost and thinking back on the hardships faced in life up until this point. Yet I’m still here. We’re still here. Through joy, through sadness, reminiscence, and hope we carry on. As our stories continue, just beyond the horizon.
Night Symphony – Pony of the Night | Soundtrack
This new piece from Night Symphony may be shorter than 2 minutes in duration, it is still mighty impressive and displays such progressive and melodic aspects that make it very similar to Soundtrack (for example OST from J-RPG games). A proof that you can do a lot in a short track duration, Pony of the Night blows us away with a progression between melodic parts on piano, strings, and organ. There’s even epic choruses backing up the melodies for an emotional result much fitting to the theme, as well as a drums accompaniment that brings variety to the orchestral arrangement and that is definitely reminiscent of Soundtrack. A little, sparkling gem of a track!
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