Good news!
The premiere has been scheduled on YouTube — can't wait to see y'all at prime time UTC on New Years Day:
Sat, Jan 1st 2022 20:15 (8:15pm) UTC
Ah yes, and don't forget to bring some popcorn! :)
My third orchestra+organ play-along album contains nine OC remixes by various artists, all of them in a similar style, as if the original composers would have had a silent agreement that, one day, these pieces were intended to be put together.
The glue between all of the tracks is suggested by the album title — they're all enhanced and backed by a three-manuals French-Romantic Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ, which I added on top by playing along in two live sessions (yes, I love plays on words, hence the album title). This adds even more drama, gravity and a bunch of particular highlights.
Since the additional pipe organ track was recorded in 7.1 surround, the original OC remixes, which served as the re-remixing basis, were also upgraded to 7.1 to fit the setup. The recording and mixing process, credits research, video material research, storybook and composition, album art, media production, etc. took about three months of spare-time work — definitely my most ambitious project so far and an interesting first contact with DAWs in general and Ardour 6 in particular.
Even if most of you are not familiar with the Nintendo's "Metroid" video game franchise or the music itself, I strongly recommend to join the premiere or watch the video (if you're reading this later) for some extra drama. The whole "movie cut" video has been completely built around the music (and not vice versa), so expect some well-timed scene cuts that were painstakingly synced to the music. Finally, all the work of the past three months is building up to that special countdown moment, I guess...