Band:
Arkadius Antonik - music
Kris Verwimp - artwork
Discography:
Realms of Odoric (2014)
Guests:
Brandenburg State Orchestra, Frankfurt/Oder
Budapest Scoring Orchestra, Hungary
Lord Willhelm - violin
Eva Broenner - cello
Gwendolyn Lackner - flute
Petra Jadrná - flute
Hanka Slanarová - violin
Gabrielle Weigel - celtic harp
Denise Hofstötter - oboe
Info:
All music composed, orchestrated and recorded by Arkadius Antonik at The Realms of Odoric Studio, Würzburg
Odoric Overture recored and mixed by Dynamedion with The Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra - score written by Arkadius Antonik, orchestrated by David Christiansen
The
Last Embrace recorded and mixed by Dynamedion with The Budapest Scoring Orchestra - score written by Arkadius Antonik, orchestrated by David Christiansen
Towering Solitude & Alaric Wolfbite recorded and mixed by Martin Buchwalter in Gernhart Studio, Troisdorf
Mastered by Martin Buchwalter at Gernhart Studio, Troisdorf
Released 2016-12-14
Reviewed 2016-12-18
Links:
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The compositions remind me of scores for fantasy films or something like that, but without the film. The compositions are strong with great moods and everything, but I miss the film. Perhaps they should have animated the graphics and made an animated film and used this as a soundtrack – that might have been more interesting. I don’t think the music grabs my attention enough to be really memorable, it could have been a bit more dynamic and dramatic to avoid feeling just like something to be playing in the background.
The idea in itself is good, to have music that requires time and attention is always good. The problem is that people imagine that they don’t have time to just sit down and listen these days so the concept has a slight flaw in that regard, as the concept with music and graphic novel requires time. And for anything to really be worth that special time, it needs to be something very special and this album isn’t that special. The music is pretty good and the graphic novel looks very good as well, but these days there are many good albums released and I would spend my limited resources on other albums.
I think these realms of Odoric have its merits but in the end it is an album that doesn’t quite stand out. It stands out in one way but the music is not that interesting and dynamic which makes it pretty easy to forget. The packaging, the concept and idea are better than the end result. It works but I think it is missing a film.
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