Crystal Hammer
2003-04 Composed Music 🎵
Contents
⏱️Overview
I’ve assembled my best music tracks from 2002-2004 into an album on jamendo, called Eye of the Pharaoh.
The style is quite original if I may say so, but generally it is somewhere in the area of Symphonic Metal with lots of solos and slightly oriental (Egypt) influences.
🔍Detail
Played on electric guitar and the rest composed in my own tracker SXIV. Solo is using a mix of violins and other fitting instruments from a keyboard. Background keyboards usually have brass like tubas, trumpets etc.
It must be said that I didn’t play the keyboard by hand. I once recorded samples from it and then always used my tracker with them. So actually used PC keyboard to practice and input notes.
🎵Tracks
The tracks from oldest to newest are:
| 1 | A deep ride inside | 4:54 | quite heavy at start, later fast and lively, had bass guitar |
| 2 | The Princess of Black Egypt | 11:59 | 2nd best, slow but very varying song, with feel |
| 3 | Intro | 2:16 | 1st best, short but quite oriental |
| 4 | When Cyan Sun Glances | 7:25 | quite fast and basically a never ending solo |
| 5 | Through the Eye of black sand | 2:46 | very slow, keyboard only, didn’t record guitar |
📜History
I was playing electric guitar from 2001 to 2005, almost only backgrounds, with my friend who played solos. We made many awesome tracks together. Mainly 2 guitars with constant solo and sometimes percussion from my tracker. Of course no vocal. Those were some pretty good times, we got few hours of recorded fun to remember.
At the times (of technical high school) I was also into electronics and analog guitar effects. I started with electronics about age 16. Later it proved very useful for us as we were using my stuff a lot when playing. Also learned a lot about sound effects this way and triggered the development of my tracker SXIV.