Pokémon DPPt: Floaroma Town - Jazz Clarinet & Orchestra Arrangement (Patreon)

Pokémon DPPt: Floaroma Town - Jazz Clarinet & Orchestra Arrangement

Floaroma Town: "Vivid & Scented". A place as beautiful as this one can remind us to be grateful for what's around us in nature. Who knows, maybe Shaymin will come along and make the flowers bloom :) Watch more Pokémon DPPT covers • • • http://bit.ly/iitrpokemonDPPTplaylist Stream / Download this Song • • • Coming soon! Sheet Music • • • http://bit.ly/38tECv1 Support my music on Patreon (Recurring donations) • • • http://bit.ly/supportinsane Support my music on Ko-Fi (One-time donations) • • • https://ko-fi.com/insaneintherain Year of Sinnoh Finances • • • http://bit.ly/sinnohfinances Very happy to be covering this beautiful tune from Sinnoh! This tune is another under-appreciated town theme that I don't think gets enough love, but unlike Canalave City, the Floaroma Town theme is used in another part of the game! If you were lucky enough to get Oak's Letter (I never did as a kid, I just got the Toys R Us Shaymin in 2008), then you would have heard this theme on the comically long Seabreak Path! I only ever saw the Seabreak Path when I got an Action Replay... so most of my memories of this song come from honey trees and the berry shop in Floaroma Town! I wanted to arrange this song for a super lush orchestration and featuring one of the best clarinet players I know, Jose! I played with him at a friend's recital here at Berklee once, and I was blown away by his awesome tone and nearly effortless sound. I knew he'd sound great playing the lead part o this tune, and his parts turned out wonderfully! Along with the solo clarinet, I had the fortune of adding live strings, harp, and piano at a string session I did back in December, and I recorded drums and a saxophone section! Yep, I'm back playing alto again, I'm borrowing one from a friend at school to play in our school's wind ensemble, thought I might as well make some videos with it. The instrumentation ended up sounding wonderfully soaring, vintage, and cozy, which is what I was going for! In fact, there is no MIDI at all in this cover! I'm quite proud of that. Mixing this cover, though, was a different story. Because of all the elements in this tune, and the difficulty that often comes with balancing very dynamic music, I had to spend a lot more time mixing this tune than I usually do with my music. When I shared a preview of this song on my Patreon Discord channel, my friend David commented that this sounded a bit like a Disney orchestra... so I actually used the Disney soundtrack "Up" as a reference mix! Up has one of my favorite soundtracks of any Disney film, mixing in some modern film scoring tropes with vintage jazz elements, so that worked pretty well at establishing a good goal for this tune. In the end, I'm pretty happy with this arrangement! I always want to tell a compelling story with my music, and I think this arrangement accurately portrays the peacefulness and happiness that I think of when I think of Floaroma Town! Clarinet (Solo) - Jose Ignacio Santos Aquino Sinnoh Strings Violin 1 - Brandon Jackson, Jody Miller, Luna Ramos, Andrea Brun Violin 2 - Brian Urra, Lia Davies, Dori Holly, Claudia Lee Horna Viola - Cecilia Vacanti, Cecelia Cook, Noah Leong Cello - Aaron Sinclair Hauser, Zachary Foster, Amit Cachman Double Bass - Luis Celis Piano - Yoko Suzuki Harp - Charles Overton Recording Engineer - Joel Edinberg Mixing & Mastering - Carlos Eiene Lighting & Videography - Kevin Greene Video Editing - Carlos Eiene ♫ "Floaroma Town" from "Pokémon Diamond & Pearl" composed by Go Ichinose SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter • • • https://twitter.com/insanerainmusic Facebook • • • https://www.facebook.com/Insaneintherainmusic Instagram • • • https://instagram.com/insaneintherainmusic Patreon • • • http://bit.ly/supportinsane Gear • • • https://www.amazon.com/shop/insaneintherainmusic Discord Sever • • • https://discord.gg/Ju97889 Distrokid VIP Link • • • http://distrokid.com/vip/insane #yearofsinnoh #sinnoh #gen4