Sycross Music

So, after a two-year-long journey with music, I have finally completed my first album! Honestly, I’m amazed at how far I’ve come in such a short amount of time.

There are 12 songs featured on this album: Dawn, Edge, Skyline, Forsaken, Breathe, Starlight Grace, Midnight, Everscape, When the Fighting Stops, Salvation Forest, Life, Seven Years to Come.

And here is a sample of the album art:

(Album Cover and the Back of the Booklet)

(Back of the Album)

(Inside of Booklet)

(CD Face)

Now that the album is done, I will mostly be focused on the marketing aspect of my music for a while. Of course, I’ll still be working on new songs, but that will be a lesser priority while I promote the album release.

If you enjoy my music, please seriously consider buying a copy of the album. It’s my first business endeavor as a musician, and I’ve put some serious time/effort/money into getting to this point.

Thanks to everyone who has been keeping up with my updates. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Wow… Haha. I’m happy to announce that this is my LAST MAJOR PROJECT for the album!!!! I am now pretty much done with all mixing/remastering!!! I just have  to go over my current songs one last time, record some piano playing of my friend Daniel Brottman, and then viola! CD-ready audio!!!

Of course, I still need to design all the album art… haha…

Anyway, some info about the song… this is one of my older songs. I originally wrote it for a Newgrounds audio competition. For the current version, I’ve completely reshaped the sound… it’s quite amazing what you can do without really changing any notes… just working with levels, panning, etc.

Hope you enjoy it. The song is my tribute to pacifism. I intended to paint a picture about war and how “When the Fighting Stops” nothing is left…

Enjoy!

Well, I’m proud to announce that I have officially reached the 10 song mark! I just finished “Life” this morning and have uploaded it for your listening pleasure. Now there are just two songs left before the album is ready!!! I am very excited and I hope you are too.

I’m pretty much running out of ways to introduce new song releases, so I’ll just keep this brief. I’ve just finished remixing “Seven Years to Come” and it was actually A LOT easier than expected. The real pain was mostly editing the piano note volumes . Anyhow, this is more of a slower, less  rhythmic song than my other ones. Some would describe it as ambient, but I’m not so sure about that. Anyhow, the instrumentation is much smaller. Rather than a huge orchestra, the sound is focused between a piano, cello, and flute. There are also some guitar chords for just a slight bit of rhythm.

Check it out. Feedback appreciated.

As I near the completion of my album, I am getting more and more excited! Haha, I can barely sleep from it.

Anyhow, just thought I’d let you know that I’ve completed “Dawn” and uploaded it today. It’s not yet on the listen page because mixpod is down right now, but I will put it up ASAP.

This is a song that I wrote a while ago. It’s one of my first songs, and actually one of my simplest. But it is full of energy and excitement, unlike most of my other songs, which usually take a more serious tone. I think I’ve greatly improved upon the original version, taking meticulous care to really reshape its sound (added in some awesome new drum fills also).

The song features some nice sound effects, such as some techno synths as well as bird chirps.

I really hope you like it! Listen (as soon as it’s up).

After finishing “Salvation Forest” I felt ready to take up the challenge of remixing/mastering again. I’m happy to announce that just four days later I have another song uploaded, and ready for your listening pleasure! The song is “Midnight” and this is one of the mosre recent songs I’ve written.

This entire song was inpired by just a very short melody/theme that came to me one day. I immediately recorded the tune on my cellphone and then decided to see how far I could take it. It ended up becoming a full song!

You might notice that the song is a little reptitive, but I tried to keep it interesting by addign some dynamic elements to it. Please let me know what you think: Listen.