Introducing BROKEN OCEAN - 'Stay Where You Fall'
'Introducing'
And it's being released exclusively onto CHOON and shared here before anywhere else.
David sent me the raw mix of this epic track which was aptly named EPIC.
I got the file before driving home from work and listened to it all the way home. I was instantly hooked by the way David had composed the tracks, his use of instruments were much different to my style of writing and his production skills were already prevalent as we've all heard his recent work on CHOON STEEMIT and have both worked with/covered Lilly Wilton's music.
The story of Broken Ocean continues...
Now, since joining Steemit in early January, I've been actively writing and sharing my original music with the world! This has been an amazing and inspirational journey which has re-ignited my passion for music.
I've worked with a few great artists like
Zippy
my crazy besty D-VINE The amazingly gifted Serena Mathews and now, David Far an incredibly talented musician and producer from Iran.
This is what the POWER OF MUSIC can do, it can bond like minded people together to create a magical and cohesive partnership which then allows them to produce music like Stay Where You Fall
I wrote the lyrics in my head and on a scrap piece of paper on the way home (not whilst driving so don't be alarmed)
They just flowed out of me like a waterfall of emotive thoughts and feelings.
The fun started, me and DAWs are foreign to one another, except for 'Cakewalk by Sonar' which I've been using at school to mix Dubstep and Dance samples with the students.
Reaper was engaged and I plugged in my really oldUSB mixer and recently acquired SE2200a condenser mic.
Believe it or not, I had a window of 60 minutes to finalise the lyrics and record my vocal over the top of Davids beautifully produced piece of music. I think it took me the second take to get it right and in tune! I then rendered the WAVs and sent them via WeTransfer back to Mr Far to mix and master
This flawless process took a little over 24 hours as we both had to sleep and rejuvenate ourselves!
I designed the logo in Word and used some FREE logo making images as to not plagiarise anyone.
The name Broken Ocean was created by me a few years ago when I was hoping to form and offshoot of my solo music.
It was created during a trip to the coast here in the UK when I was sitting on some rocks watching my children playing in the sand and thought 'The Ocean is really broken and I hope it's still a place of beauty for them when they're my age with their own children. The cover artwork took longer than creating and recording the song! Myself and David both agreed that it's the first thing people see when hitting that song link, and he did a great job editing it. We kicked around ideas and my partner even drew us a sketch to use (she's not offended that we didn't use it)
Lyrics and Vocals by Darren Claxton
Copyright (c) 2018
As Darren wrote about the Broken Ocean and about how we started this project and team, I skip those parts, I also want to add that in this song, Darren has sing the song so powerful and amazing, which gave the music a life.
when we started this project, I saw that we both work motivated on the track and we are not skipping things so fast, as we care about the whole song.
The Music :
The process of the music, after me and Darren started it, we think about each part of it, and sharing ideas to reaching the point that we wanted, as I love to produce musics for Films and Video Games, I tried to make this track to be a soundtrack and in an epic way, making it huge with War Drums and Heavy Piano Keys and Cello parts, an emotional Cello, which Darren perfectly sing those parts which all connected to each other well. in the middle part of the track I recorded a guitar line Arpeggio and after that I recorded 3 lines of guitar playing riff in different styles to add more power to the instruments in the choruses. at the end I mixed and mastered the track with FL Studio DAW, which is my favorite DAW as I always say it's a user friendly software.
The Photo Cover :
as Darren also mentioned about the Photo Cover process I skip a little, so I started with a 3d modeling software called IClone Reallusion, and I worked on a scene to reach the idea, so after hours I created that scene, and exported the characters and importing them in Photoshop to working more on them and making them look more realistic and cinematic. at the beginning of the post you can see the Photo Cover.
Do you know where you are from
Or any place you don't belong
Did you fall from the skies
Before you even realised
Stay where you fall
You're just no use at all
to a place you don't belong
You've given me a silence
And you've given me a hope
You covered up my feelings
And smothered me in love
Stay where you fall
You're just no use at all
to a place you don't belong
On a mountain side by side
Where earth and ocean still colide
You've given me a silence
And you've given me a hope
You covered up my feelings
And smothered me in love
Stay where you fall
You're just no use at all
to a place you don't belong
Music and production by David Far
Lyrics and Vocals by Darren Claxton
Copyright (c) 2018 Broken Ocean
Wow I loved it. I have just listened to it loud in the studio monitors and enjoyed it a lot. Top!!!!
Hey thanks mate!
That's a great compliment coming from you!
Best listened to loud to let it hit you in the feels!
Or loud on repeat wee
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Thanks!
I'm introducing our new music project so that's why I used the #introduceyourself tag!
This is off the hook, my crazy besty @darrenclaxton <3 & @davidfar <3
Broken Ocean rules & I am looking forward to hearing more <3
Hey @d-vine
I'ts a really great track and just right for a Hollywood blockbuster!
Thanks for the love
DC xx
It really is <3
I wish you a great week Dazzle <3
<3<3
Wow this is great
Thank you!
We're very proud of what we've created with our debut track!
Feel free to share.
DC
Yea all the best
ABSOLUTELY EPIC GUYS
Noted all capitals
E-P-I-C
loved every second from it...
My favourite instrument in the world is the cello by the way... and epic is my favourite music genre... so guess I'll have this one on repeat a few times... You'll be appearing in my music curation picks and thus I've left a full upvote (this month I'm having a bigger delegation and trying to reach it to many but reserving the full votes for EXCELLENT (NOTE CAPITALS AGAIN) lol content...
congratulations...
MAKE A VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(Note capitals agains, but those last one were shouting capitals) hahaha :*
Congratulations also to @davidfar that I tag because this goes for him too
good job!
Thank you so much, its always great to read your kind comments! and thanks for the supports :D
THAT'S AN E-P-I-C COMMENT!!
Thanks for taking the time to listen, share and curate our track Pris!
You are so deserving of that delegation too!
Have a restful Sunday and please play it to @hedac
Oh I absolutely did play it to @hedac kudos from him as well
It's featured on my last curation post too. If you wish anything added (or edited) let me know, I will be around later tonight :)
hugggggs
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Most epic collab so far on this platform @darrenclaxton you guys should push this out there, potential is outstanding, it could be a main theme to a blockbuster, no joke
Hey @ivan.atman
Thanks for the compliment mate!
Myself and @davidfar totally agree!
I've sent it to a TV and Film publisher but they don't seem to be to active in getting it out there!
This track is immense and has the potential to make it onto a blockbuster movie!
I'm really glad that it's starting to get the love it deserves!
It only managed W$30.00 in it's first week on Whaleshares when other posts were into the high hundreds!
That's blogging I guess!
Cheers again Ivan!
DC & DF
@darrenclaxton Maybe place the track on the sites that are reselling music for movies and commercials , like MusicBed, Audiojungle and Pod5 are great examples, just get it out there :)