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diff --git a/album/kindred-souls.yaml b/album/kindred-souls.yaml index 1e73c1a6..ad9b0591 100644 --- a/album/kindred-souls.yaml +++ b/album/kindred-souls.yaml @@ -1007,6 +1007,59 @@ Lyrics: |- Fade into the sunset I'm with you in the dark +Commentary: |- + <i>ruby:</i> + I originally intended to touch up an old remix of the DELTARUNE main theme I had done back in 2022. + + Then, the DELTARUNE Nintendo Switch 2 trailer dropped, which used [[track:deltarune-nintendo-switch-2-announce-trailer-music|an arranged version]] of the [[track:game-main-theme-piano-sketch|piano demo]]. I've always been a huge fan of the main theme demo, and a little disappointed it never made it past the demo stage, so hearing a more produced version for THE DELTARUNE release date trailer, it definitely gave me some feelings. + + So, instead of including an old remix, I re-transcribed the song, including the additional strings and EarthBound piano. + + (someone bug me whenever this commentary makes it onto the wiki, I can include some wips and screenshots.) + + at some point, I decided to increase the tempo, add guitars, basically make it way more J-Rock-like. I really liked how it sounded so I kept working on it.<br> + I decided I wanted to make it a full-lenght song, and even write lyrics for it. Great ideas, but let's first try to finish a demo. + + I had the full structure in my head, I knew I wanted to use the lyrics of [[track:dont-forget|Don't Forget]]. then, I knew I wanted to have cool imagery in the lyrics, some lyric concepts I wrote down in the moment made it to the final song even! + + I really had a concrete vision, at the time I literally said:<br> + "I can't stop thinking about it, all I know is i have to make this song a reality. now I know how [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] felt after his fever dream, but I was awake when I conjured this concept. I need to make it.........." + + After Chapters 3+4 released, I did end up updating the bridge section to include the [[track:guardian-deltarune|GUARDIAN]] melody. Before, the bridge always felt like it was missing something. The overall arrangement was done, I could focus on writing guitar parts, and mixing. + + I'm not a guitarist, but I tried to make it realistic, something [[artist:jun-senoue|Jun Senoue]]-like or something. + + As the lyrics were slowly reaching completion (there were a lot of lines where I couldn't think of anything and they only really came together last minute lol), [[artist:jebb|Jebb]] was just like: + + "Ok but consider + Miku for vocals. + Or teto." + + now, I hadn't done much vocaloid or synthv stuff before, I had only played with [[artist:hatsune-miku|Miku]] a bit earlier this year, but it was the perfect suggestion. I also had been listening to some [[artist:jamie-paige|Jamie Paige]] music with my partner, specifically Constant Companions, which has [[artist:kasane-teto|Teto]] on various tracks. so, I decided I would just try it... + + and it... worked! + + so the last month of working on this song was me finishing the guitars, finishing the lyrics, and programming Teto. + + that's awesome and everything, I am very proud of what I managed to achieve with this song. there are parts of the production I think are lacking, but considering I also had to put time into stuff like writing lyrics, I think it was a fair trade-off. + + maybe some day I will make a version with live vocals, or maybe guitar or something... that'd be cool! + + + despite all this, I still didn't have a title. I just called it the "deltarune anime opening", which isn't really a satisfying title for a track with this much effort lol. + + so then I saw the final art by [[artist:selan-pike|SelanPike]], which said it... + + デルタルーン + + it's just the Japanese name for deltarune, but that's just perfect for a hypothetical anime opening for the game, so I adopted it as track title too. + + I really hope you enjoy the track! and, if you read through all this, I hope this was a neat insight into the song's creation! + + PS as the title is デルタルーン, if you want to translate or "localize" it to English... as it's just the Japanese name for the game, it's just "DELTARUNE" lol + + <i>Selan Pike:</i> + Originally I was going to do the usual jokey UwU school anime thing, but the more I looked through inspo images, the more I wanted to base it on 90's fantasy anime. In the end, I based this image heavily on a specific manga illustration from Magic Knight Rayearth, which was a huge inspiration to me when I was a kid. --- Track: UNALTERED Artists: |