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TitleNine Lives 東方 Touhou Unplugged/Classic 151
ChannelKakashiMr
Published2010-01-17T21:28:16.000Z
DescriptionTitle: Popular Piano Arrangement feat. Violin
Artists: panoman
Circle: SOUND HOLIC
Album: TOHO PIANISM I
Original: 廃獄ララバイ (Lullaby of Deserted Hell) & 死体旅行 ~ Be of good cheer! (Corpse Voyage ~ Be of good cheer!)

As promised here's another track from the SOUND HOLIC Piano x Other instruments album.

As I said in the previous upload from this album, it's a great album containing some great pianowork and some great classical songs, with, to top it all off, a nice variety of styles, ranging from jazz to classic violin songs and some acoustic guitars.

The previous upload should be enough to show how sad a violin can make a song sound (especially when it's the main instruments, like in TAM's case), but well it's not always like that, there are occasions when a violin can not sound totally desperate or sorrowful. There are 2 occasions where it's like that, the first is when it's an electrical violin, or when it's some poppish kind of violin song (i.e. Vanessa Mae); the second is what I like to call the "Celtic" feeling, it's when the violin doesn't sound sad at all, but actually sounds pretty upbeat and cheerful.

This song, well it contains a big contrast of songs, Lullaby of Deserted Hell is a very sad song, very fitting for it's stage, and it's title just serves as a way to "power up" that sad feeling, a lullaby for the deserted streets of former hell. On the other hand, Corpse Voyage is extremely cheerful, actually it's one of ZUN's most cheerful themes, not fitting for a stage 5 boss, but fitting for the character it represents. Thus, Corpse Voyage is a hard ZUN to arrange in a sad way, since it's so cheerful.

The violins in this song... well initially, when they kick in, they actually sound like they are crying, giving that sad feeling, but actually when the song progresses I think it regains some of that cheerfulness, but at certain times it seems like it drops back down to sadness, especially in the Lullaby of Deserted Hell fragments.
The pianos are great and manage to keep up with the song's changing tempos very well. Let's hope for more material from SOUND HOLIC like this in the future, like a "TOUHOU PIANISM 2".

Thanks for watching.