Kingdom Hearts II: Lazy Afternoons - Jazz Cover by Charles Ritz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2019
- Just take a step back, relax as you listen to Charles Ritz's jazz cover / remix version of Lazy Afternoon from Kingdom Hearts II, as featured on GameLark's "Hearts of Light"!
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Collaborators
TonalRumblePak (Trumpet) - / trumpetninja68
Xnarky (Guitar) - / @xnarkyvgm
@RoPanuganti (Bass)
Noah Benson (Drums) - / noa_benson
Beau (Mixing Engineer) - / kre
@AHmusic (Mastering Engineer)
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I feel like I always make some of my best work when I get to contribute to GameLark albums - the last time I did one was Tropic Trials, which I had so much fun working on and this was a very similar experience! Late in our first semester, Noah Benson showed me the title track of jazz pianist Justin Kauflin's album "Coming Home" and I instantly fell in love - such a simple but groovy and beautiful tune. When we decided the next GameLark album would be a Kingdom Hearts tribute, the thought quickly came to my mind to do Lazy Afternoons in the style of this tune, and it turned out to be a great fit! Reference mixing can really do wonders in production and recording, as we worked to treat the drum kit and get that same dead sound on the record and make it a very tight production. It's always fun getting to play soprano saxophone too, and I look forward to doing it more in the future!
And of course, props as always to my wonderful collaborators! All the instrumentalists brought their absolute A-game to this tune, and it was such a joy to watch their parts gradually come in. And of course, much love to Beau and Alejandro for taking care of post-production and giving this project a wonderfully professional sound.
I'm not too sure what I'll be covering next, I'd love to hear your suggestions! Let me know down in the comments below what you'd like to hear more of. Thanks so much for watching!
♫ “Lazy Afternoons" from “Kingdom Hearts II" composed by Yoko Shimomura
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Beautiful arrangement of one of my favorite KH songs! I just wished this song played longer in the game, it's so peaceful.
Thank you so much! I know how much the music of Kingdom Hearts means to people, so I'm glad I could pay tribute to it in my own way!!
This is my favorite song in the game and you did it a great justice. Thanks!
Thank you so much!! I know this song means a lot to people, so I'm glad to hear that I could do it justice!
Wow its taken me a while to stumble upon your channel Charles I don't know why! I love the level of collabs you do its so amazing! Awesome work :D Youre amazing! :D
This is a severly underrated video. Be sure to share this guys. Keepup the good work! We'd love to see more!
Thank you so much for checking this out! Definitely more coming soon.
Cool to finally see!
Thanks brother! Honored to be album neighbors ❤
This cover definitely slaps. Will be sharing far and wide.
Ahhh this was such an awesome and relaxing take, I absolutely love everyone's performances too. The Sims: Kingdom Hearts edition
Thank you so much for being on it man, and for all the kind words! Next step is to find more Sims music... 👀
BEAUTIFUL arrangement Charles :)
everything is super tasteful and subtle, great solo by Xnarky too
Yoo thanks man!! Josh absolutely BROUGHT it to this track, as did everyone else involved. So glad you enjoyed it
@@charlesritzmusic I really did =)
Oh I love me a soprano sax. Really nice work! What a sneaky final chord too
Yeah dude, I don't get to play soprano too often but it's always super fun to do it! That last chord was so much fun, especially with Xnarky's fun scalar magic lol
ABSOLUTE 🔥🔥🔥
Awesome work! You've really captured the spirit of the original song while expanding on it with your own flair.
That's always my goal - to bring back memories with a classic tune and bring something fresh too. Happy that I can do that for you with this song! Thank you for listening!
Omg this is AMAZING!!!!
Thank you so much!! So happy you enjoyed it :D
@@charlesritzmusic I really did! You guys are so talented! I hope someone from Kingdom Hearts sees this and you can be in their orchestra!!!
Bro, this is nasty. Great job!
This is a beautiful arrangement that warms the soul! Lovely, thank you.
Dude thank you so much! That was definitely my intent, I'm happy to hear it did that for you.
omg this is so good. you should do something with insaneintherain
Thank you so much! I've had Carlos on my channel a few times, I actually go to school with him! Always love working with him, he's a great guy.
Charles Ritz oh wow! Both of you have really inspired me to keep practicing so I thank you for that. I would love to see you do something on his channel.
A beautiful work, you've really brought the best out of your collaborators too! Nice one dude!
Thank you so much Peter!! I'm so happy I could get all of these phenomenal musicians on board for this project, they really made it come together. So happy you liked our take on this tune!
Sounds like the theme for a starting town in a Pokémon game.
Great work, guys!
Thanks dude!
Fantastic!!
Nice! love the guitar solo
Yeah dude, Xnarky is a MONSTER! So glad I got to work with him again on this track. Thanks so much for listening
Fantastic. 👏👏👏
Thank you brother
YES MY BOI
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I think this def suffered from not being together when played so the sway felt very forced at times. I'm sure you guys feel it while recording. But the writing was superb. The Dynamics could have been a lot better and saved it from the akwardness it has from being separate recordings. Great overall writing through seriously , your lead guitarist and bassist rocked it.
Edit:
Also it did have a bit issue sounding constantly FULL the mix could have used serperation from the writing to let a lot of brighter tones out
Yeah, I definitely feel that at points, in retrospect. If memory serves, I actually believe drums were recorded last on this one, which could have had something to do with it (not to knock my drummer, just by the nature of online collaboration and recording to different things). I definitely appreciate your honesty and your kind words on my writing. I feel like this is an arrangement that would be even better performed by a live group, and I'd LOVE to make that a reality some time soon!
@@charlesritzmusic wonderful, looking forward to hearing what y'all do. Let me know if you need someone that is on audio eng side of things haha
When did you get the Soprano and what brand is it? Great stuff by the way!
Thanks so much! I actually borrowed the soprano from a friend at school for this video, so I don't remember the brand off the top of my head. I can check with him and let you know!
Thanks so much! I actually borrowed the soprano from a friend at school for this video, so I don't remember the brand off the top of my head. I can check with him and let you know!
@@charlesritzmusic Ok! Thank you very much!
He got back to me, and all he can remember off the dome is that it's a Cecilio soprano - hope that helps!
@@charlesritzmusic It does! Thank you!
Awesome job! Sounds great. Pianist should not look into the camera so much though it looks a little funny.
It's all about finding that great thumbnail picture though 😉
Thanks so much for listening!
My honest opinion: this music as a seperate entity/peice of music is great but this doesn't capture the soothing,calm, peaceful, chill nature of the original music (and that's why the name literally has the word "lazy" in it )which was accomplished by using very few instruments (is it 2,or 3 or more idk m not sure) and being much slow paced (which u guys could have accomplished by slowing the flow especially with the mouth instruments)...