Miracle of Sound: Half Man's Song (Game of Thrones)

[Larcenist]

Truly amazing piece of work once again, a nice tune with elements much alike Sovngarde Song. The "within" at 2:22 is one of the most beautifully executed things I've heard you pull off in any of your songs and it makes me think about what wonders you could pull off with a celtic inspired folk song in the style of say Heather Dale.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Truly amazing piece of work once again, a nice tune with elements much alike Sovngarde Song. The "within" at 2:22 is one of the most beautifully executed things I've heard you pull off in any of your songs and it makes me think about what wonders you could pull off with a celtic inspired folk song in the style of say Heather Dale.

I would love to make some heavily-Celtic influenced stuff at some stage, (being from Ireland and all that) I plan on it this year

It's nice that you noticed that line, I was always a fan of those little accents and slurs in songs.

I am now currently listening to the song for the twelfth time, and the gooseflesh on my arms is not really decreasing. This is amazing. I thought "Rise" was your masterpiece, but this ... this is so amazing, I'm beyond words.

This is Tyrion. This song, literally, is Tyrion.

A masterpiece. Thank you, Gav.

You're welcome and thank you for the kind words

That was quite wonderful. Peter Dinklage, take note, this needs to be your theme tune from now on.

I tweeted it to him but not sure if he saw it, haha. Maybe if more people did too he'd spot it, hint hint.

 

[Larcenist]

I would love to make some heavily-Celtic influenced stuff at some stage, (being from Ireland and all that) I plan on it this year

It's nice that you noticed that line, I was always a fan of those little accents and slurs in songs.

I'm a huge fan of celtic themed music, especially Heather Dale and Loreena McKennitt (well Irish music in general as well, growing up to The Pogues, Dubliners and Dropkick Murphys), and Heather in particular caught me very much by using a wide variety of vocal techniques in her songs which is why that single phrase in your song caught my attention.

As a musician myself I love having new Miracle of Sound releases to look forward to apart from the other content on The Escapist so I play for your long lived success, and albeit a little late props for learning to cope with your tinnitus and still release quality songs on a regular basis in such a short time, it really shows a lot of how much you care about music which in turn is an inspiration in its own to us all.

 

[ConjurerOfChaos]

Erm, correct me if I' wrong, but there was a comment here about the Night's Watch being associated with the 'whispering ravens' from the lyrics; aren't the members of the Watch referred to as 'Crows' in the books, never as ravens, because ravens are simply Westeros' equivalent of carrier pigeons (and are about a million times more awesome than simple pigeons)?

Oh, and while I'm on the subject of the video: the imagery of Viserys during the 'whispering' was great, The Spider being the Master of Secrets and having his whispering little birds (but no ravens, those are Tyrion's ...).
And congratalustions on the beginning, with the showing of the other persons and the 'revelation' of Tyrion only during the last verse of the first stanza.

And another congrats on doing a ASOIAF-related video that shows Sean Bean only in the very beginning. That is not to say I didn't like him, but he's almost as done to death as I thought the character of Tyrion was.

Spoiler

Yes, I'm no big fan of Ned Stark. That might be because he dies at the end of GoT, but most of the other characters even in that book were more interesting than him. Though he is a great contrast as King's Hand to those that come after him (Tyrion, Kevan and Cersei)

YES I am still listening to this almost continually and spending way too much time on it (and its lyrics).

Unrelated favorite Tyrion quote:
"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we start taking ourselves too seriously." - Tyrion Lannister

 

[walsfeo]

No reference to praying with cocks?
2/10

And here I thought "Play a tune on the half mans pipe" was a reference to just that thing. While as juicy fruits was exactly the opposite.

 

[Ranyore]

Easily one of the best GoT songs that has been recorded.

 

[UNHchabo]

One small criticism: when you say "Cut through all their shit with a brazen wit", you enunciate the "t" sound on "shit", but then you don't do it on "wit"; it makes the line seem unbalanced.

I like the song though, even when I haven't watched the series.

 

[Galad]

I love how close the frames from the show matched closely the lines of the song. Thank you!