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Hello, everybody

Do you listen to the lounge music occasionally?
This is Instrumental Latin tune!
Please enjoy it with coffee, Scotch, or your favorite cocktail if you like.
Comments encouraged.
Have at it.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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Acoustic Bass(33) assigned to Wood Bass (EastWest Goliath)
Acoustic Piano(1) assigned to Rhodes Piano (EastWest Goliath)
Nylon Guitar(25) assigned to Nylon Guitar (EastWest Goliath),
MIDI Drums assigned to Jazz Brush Drums & GM Percussion (EastWest Goliath)

Additional Melody and Obbligato scored by me
Main Melody by Alto Flute (EastWest Symphonic Orchestra)
Accompanied instruments as follows
Acoustic Piano (Steinberg The Grand)
Solo Trombone & 4 Trombones (EastWest Goliath)
4 part Strings (EastWest Symphonic Orchestra)

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Very enjoyable listen. Well done Shigeki


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Originally Posted By: Scott C
Very enjoyable listen. Well done Shigeki


Scott said it, and we totally agree!

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Shigeki Adachi,

Beautiful.

Wonderful instrumentation, arrangement and mix.

Sounds like a movie score - from some classic early 60's film...

A delight to listen to.

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Top notch composition - so inventive. That was incredibly well constructed and the strings were amazing.

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yep, definitely a sixties movie score. Beautifully done. Can't go wrong with East West products. Not cheap but worth every penny.

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Hi animarorecords, Good work on this! Very smooth and relaxing vibes to this. The flutes really bring it together. Nice job! smile


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Wow, loved it from the first note.

Really pleasant, a thoughtful and relaxing melody.

Great orchestration throughout.

Nice.


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Hi Shigeki Adachi,

Your ability to orchestrate is incredible. This is beautiful music in every direction; whichever speaker I turn and face.

What you have composed and arranged here is an outstanding testament to the power of MIDI music. The EastWest libraries that you've used sound amazing.

This definitely sounds like it should be used as a movie score. Have you ever written anything for anime? I've seen a few Japanese presentations over the years and I can easily image this music being part of the score.

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I know this sound a "Muzak" or elevator music. Background music such as this use to be piped into elevators, stores, businesses like doctors and dental offices. Muzak was the premier supplier in te 60's.

My next door neighbor was a Muzak installer and I spent many hours with him as a helper. The equipment was installed in a hotel suite and I recall that walking across the floor and getting near the metal equipment created huge static charges from my fingers...

You've done a great job in recreating that familiar sound. Very nice.

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Originally Posted By: PeterF
Shigeki
Top notch composition - so inventive. That was incredibly well constructed and the strings were amazing.

Peter


I agree and add that the opening is a real attention grabber.
Well done!

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Shigeki,

I really love this sound. Very 60s but in a really good way. Excellent instrumentation. Kind of reminds me of Burt Bacharach.

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Hi Shigeki,

Simply beautiful! Dia and I love this kind of music. We do a lot of Lounge Jazz. This is excellent!

The strings add so much to hhis. Makes feel like I'm listening to the theme of a 1968 movie ... nothing wrong with that! great song!

Alan & Di


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Hello, Scott, Rob & Anne-Marie, floyd, Peter, Mike, Joe, Trevor, Noel, Charlie, Robert, David, Alan & Di

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
Much appreciate your kind comments and your continuous supports.
I am very happy you all like this tune.
I used to listen to soundtrack music in 70's.
And I love very much to write string orchestrations.

Mike,
I have been a big fan of EastWest instruments since Kontakt version.

Noel,
I have never written anything for anime, but I have written some scores for an amateur director in my city.

Charlie,
I understood well why you feel so familiar to this tune.

Alan & Di,
It's also a big fun for me to make Lounge music.

Thank you again to all.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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Dear Shigeki Adachi...

By the power invested in me through the most highly esteemed and venerable auspices of the Royal Order of Excellence in Lounge Music, I do hereby christen thee, "Sir Shigeki Adachi, the 21st century Mantovani", and by this singular and most exalted title, thou shalt forevermore be known to thy kith and kin, throughout the realm of thou faire Queen (ladies first, right?) and good King... smile

I would apply the three "L's" to your composition, "Coffee Time": lush, lovely, and langorous! Your melody is memorable, your harmonies, thrilling, and the way you handled your virtual instruments is exemplary, to me, at least. How did you manage to achieve such seamless legato in your string arrangement???

"Back in the day" -- for me, the 60's and 70's -- this genre of music was known as "easy listening," and was broadcast virtually twenty-four hours a day, mostly on the AM radio frequencies. At night, the really great stuff was programmed -- Percy Faith, Bert Kaempfert, Jackie Gleason, 101 Strings, and Mantovani, of course! I would go to bed with an earphone connected to a transistor radio and listen to those soothing orchestral lullabies until I went to sleep. Truly nostalgic memories, they are...

"Coffee Time" is one of the prettiest songs I've ever heard on the "User's Forum." I've got my ear on you, now, Sir Shigeki! smile

Sincerely,

LOREN (a.k.a. "bluage")

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As floyd and other's mentioned, "Sounds like a movie score - from some classic early 60's film..."

You have written, arranged and produced a wonderful interpretation of that period. Just reading the list of instruments is very illustrative of the amount of work you must have put into this.

Amazingly well done!

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Shigeki - GREAT song! I'm enjoying it with coffee... no Scotch for this lady!

This is today's Hot Forum Topic! smile


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Hello, bluage, Janice & Bud and Callie

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
Much appreciate your kind comments.
I am very happy you all like this tune.
It is maybe the reason the sounds like lounge music are familiar for me that my parents had often played the LP records of Mantovani, Percy Faith or something like that in the living room when I was a child.

Special thanks to LOREN(bluage) who is definitively a string orchestration lover. The comparison with Mantovani is so flattering!
I owe the seamless legato in my string arrangement mostly to EastWest instruments.
EastWest strings has the patch named Butter Legato. I usually use it on my strings.
In the past it was impossible to reproduce the orchestra personally, but it is available in my room now.
Very good age for the house logger musicians now.

Thank you again to all.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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I'm enjoying it with a Dr. Pepper,
very pleasant, nice mix

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Hello, Kenny

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
Much appreciate your kind comments.
Dr. Pepper is also available in Japan. (but not so popular)
As a little bit strange taste is stimulating, I occasionally drink it between Scotch and Scotch at the cafe bar near my house.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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