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Title: Mostar bridge
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Artist: T.Kuusniemi
Genre: World: Other
Reviewed by: Spectra on September 10, 2007 (All reviews by Spectra)

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1Overall Description
Straightforward professional quality background music that, unfortunately, doesn't quite make it past background music.

Beautiful almost chanting intro leads into a deep mesh of violins. This orchestral, but follows fairly obvious melodic sweeps with only a few decorations to relieve it and the song.
On one hand, it's professionally done and very easy to listen to, on the other hand, there's nothing particularly exciting about it until the encore at about 4:00 and a small interlude at 2:00....more of these "surprises" need to be added for the tune to truly hit home and not seem "sleepy" at times.
 
2Creativity Description
The mood is relatively stagnant throughout the piece until about 4:00 when the encore settles in and the same drums in the same rhythm lead the first full minute of the song. There's a nifty "eye of the storm" interlude at 2:00 where darkness and light interchange but it's only 15 seconds long before the theme returns. Yes, there's a great deal of professionalism and creativity in the arrangement, but the ultimate result, a creative mood, doesn't quite hit home.
 
3Artistic License Description
Good credit here to the sense of darkness with the chants, "glimmering light" with the high strings, and fullness of the horns. The guitar sounds a bit lonely though, in some parts...even if that was the intentional mood some cold accompaniment, perhaps in the form of strings with high vibrato, would definitely help.
 
4Arrangement Description
The arrangement is more or less the artistic license here.
 
5Sound Quality Description
It's professional quality orchestral work, yes, but the -1 point as drums are virtually not-existent except for the main drum with the same exact rhythm through the entire song...I know this is soundtrack, not pop or dance but the repeating drum roll does become a bit of a headache after a while.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
As background music, yes, but as a piece that stands on its own and adds enough emotional contrast and excitement to also entertain even without a movie to back it up, not quite.
 
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