This week’s selection is a dark orchestral fantasy piece with a mystical mood. Obligatory quiet choir chanting included!

Here’s a piece I contributed to OperToon’s interactive story, Strange Rain. In the app, we hear musical phrases admist the patter of raindrops from a stormy sky. As we proceed through the story, a sentence at a time, we also advance through the music. This album remix, as I like to call it, stitches together the musical phrases into a whole.

Suggesting raindrops via piano is an age-old tradition. Here I also employed synths and reverse effects to reflect the app’s subtle visual oddities.

This piece for piano and accordion is more Parisian than wintery, but hopefully the music will evoke some January associations as well. This cue is also a distant cousin to “Autumn in Paris”, which I shared a few months ago. Enjoy!

In the spirit of the holiday, here’s my frenetic interpretation of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

Tip of the santa hat to the folks at APM Music (for whose “Holiday Madness” release this cue was written). Hope you’re all having a joyous Christmas day and looking forward to a splendid New Year.

This elegiac piece, squarely in the epic fantasy tradition, features a haunting vocal performance by recording and performing artist Jennifer Lindsay.