It's the start of another week, which for plenty of us means a return to work / school / whatever. We all have our background music of choice, but a good candidate for this week is now available courtesy of Steven Morris. They've created 'Kirby à la Mode', which recreates classic Kirby tracks with the goal of being as relaxing as possible.
You can listen at the top, and below is the tracklist and a bit more detail from Morris:
Kirby à la Mode Track List:
1. Green Greens (Kirby’s Dream Land)
2. Grape Garden (Kirby’s Adventure)
3. Rainbow Route (Kirby & the Amazing Mirror)
4. Butter Building (Kirby’s Adventure)
5. Pop Star (Kirby 64: The Crystal Shard)
6. Gourmet Race (Kirby Super Star)
7. King Dedede (Kirby’s Dream Land)
8. Ripple Field (Kirby’s Dream Land 3)
9. Sand Canyon (Kirby’s Dream Land 3)
10. Rick the Hamster (Kirby’s Dream Land 2)
Each arranged track is arranged in a combination of chilled-out, relaxing yet eclectic and harmonically rich styles with a focus on acoustic instruments. Green Greens and Ripple Field appear in a bossa nova style, Gourmet Race is featured as a slowed down & contemplative yet condensed segue, King Dedede is in a country & western style, and the desert inspired melodies of Sand Canyon are emphasized with electric sitar and various percussion including an udu. Other tracks typically employ finger-style acoustic guitar as well a wind ensemble section.
We spoke to Steven Morris last year, too, learning more about his 'Bossa De Hyrule' project.
Enjoy!
[source youtube.com]
Comments 9
I like the music, but the recording seems harsh with high peaks. I'm not just imagining that, am I?
Relaxing? I'm only half a minute in and the sound of that recorder is getting on my nerves.
@RupeeClock You're not imagining. It does sounds a little rough.
Interesting, I'll have a listen and see if it'll work for me. I work in childcare and have been putting on lo-fi beats whenever I open the centre to start the morning off chill. Last week I opened I did Pokémon lo-fi and this morning I found some Kirby lo-fi, but if this dude's stuff is easy listening and relaxing, maybe that's what I'll put on this week!
Well this article just signed those videos death warrant.
Have this on repeat, so cute!
@moodycat Well, it's an original version of the tracks. So, copyright shouldn't be a problem. Now if Nintendo trademarked the music it might be.
Remind me of Kirby Cafe music!
I mean, kirby with bossa or jazz will never go wrong.
@RupeeClock You're definitely not imagining it. The sound is definitely on the point where it's far from relaxing and really getting on one's nerves.
@ThomasBW84 Do you write articles featuring other albums of arranged Nintendo music (e.g. piano collection)?
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