Escape Room4296/1Frantic cello stabs into booming ambience as string layers dart with a rising hiss and whine. Cut to silence before crashing drums and strings return and swell to an epic, unrelenting wave of dramatic tension that finally bursts and tumbles back.2:08
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Stuart Roslyn (PRS) | Christopher Elmslie (PRS) | Matthew Foundling (PRS)Rich cello, bass and violins take center stage with these riveting and intimate performances. At times tense and driving, at times cinematic and emotional, these compelling neoclassical tracks cut to the core of timeless human drama.
14 tracks
- Room for Maneuver4296/4Darkly plodding cello anchors plucked and groaning strings as imposing drumscape punches in. Cello holds the beat as frantic strings dart and surge. Stick clicks and piano strikes accent the ominous, tense build that swirls to an epic, deadly finale.2:13
- Organized Chaos4296/7Strings stab and skitter ominously before leading a curious dance, finding an imposing drumscape that pushes the off-kilter strings towards a tense climb, building in a sweeping mesh of all elements that pounds and drives to a tense close.2:27
- Private Investigator4296/9Frantic string stabs dart and rattle as plucked string ticks with clicking and percussion. Charging violin, clock ticks and pounding drumscape lead to a cascade of lush strings that raise the dramatic stakes in an epic, final string run.2:06
- Looking Up4296/11Dignified string ensemble swells, ushering in a booming cymbal crash and lush, uplifting strings that dart amongst cascades of pounding drums. Strings swirl and climb, crying as drums hammer and fall, giving the strings the final say.1:45
- Will of the People4296/14Tense cello stabs, stick clicks, booms, and string flutters mark time as dark piano hammers in the background. Steady drum accents elevate the lead violin ostinatos as everything crashes in an urgently epic, dramatic finale and final string fade.2:09
- Silent Rooms4296/16Elegant, mournful solo cello sets a somber tone, as booms and weeping string layer in. Tense strings race with piano as the cello rumbles over tight drum hits. Dramatic stakes build until the sharp, driving strings climb to a tango-like outro.2:20
- Windward Shores4296/19Lush string sweeps wash into a fluttering violin that weaves a pleasing, wondrous ambience as a wave of strings crash with an epic drumscape that echoes out, meshing everything together in a surging cry that swells and crashes to a finale.2:03
- Rock Bottom4296/22Galloping strings over growling cello as plodding bass and airy boom anchor the string-driven landscape. Stern, rolling drums ground the racing strings, swelling with a pounding pace to an imposing, emotional build that cascades to an epic close.2:37
- New Winter4296/24Somber strings find airy booms that elevate a violin, tentative at first, then racing - propelled by an imposing drumscape, holding back the tense strings until the dam breaks and everything collides in an epic, dramatic finale.2:21
- Pulled Together4296/27Growling string drags moan into a bleak landscape as a defiantly austere violin takes the lead, backed by hopeful piano and booms that elevate the mood, blending strings in a harmony of optimism with a racing chorus that pounds to an epic finale.2:20
- Tipping Point4296/30Swirling strings lilt and climb with stick clicks as plucked strings accent a quirky, murder mystery landscape. Racing strings gallop with a walking bass and stern clicks, surging up to a sophisticated, urgent climax.2:12
- Sent Apart4296/32Melancholy violin cascades into a dramatic, fluttering cut. Pounding booms and dark cello anchor as a whining synth hums, whooshing into frantic, wailing string layers that build with epic drums and urgent piano, pounding to a growling close.1:58
- Brightness4296/35Hollow hum joined by tense, racing string layers that swarm. Airy boom returns the strings, joined by ticking stick clicks and a growling synth as a dramatic piano and synth layers shower the intensifying landscape that bursts and falls back.2:30
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