07-16-2017, 10:22 PM
Well, you know you have my full support! I like this idea very much. I think you have a great idea with the Asian influence, too. I always like to incorporate that myself, because there are a lot of interesting tone colors to play with (percussion, for instance: I'm partial to gongs of all kinds).
As for dwarven music, you do yourself a great favor by making the story and sound already very "northern" to begin with. Since Dwarves often get the "northern" treatment on their own, you can now experiment with other ideas to help them stand out a bit from the general milieu of viking-types you're already dealing with. I can't speak for you on what your own vision is, but much as I love the traditional dwarves we're used to seeing, I also like more adventurous takes such as Tad Williams' dwarrows (aka dvernings / Tinukeda'ya) from Memory Sorrow and Thorn, and the Dwemer from the Elder Scrolls.
I've also always found Conan to be a great source of inspiration and I feel that over the years it has created a sort of unique "barbarian" type that is almost a sampling of a variety of different cultures from all over. So there's plenty of room for mixing it up.
As for the extant music, I'm digging Far Away and I think it has great potential to be, as you say, an "Into the West" king of track with vocals and all.
As for dwarven music, you do yourself a great favor by making the story and sound already very "northern" to begin with. Since Dwarves often get the "northern" treatment on their own, you can now experiment with other ideas to help them stand out a bit from the general milieu of viking-types you're already dealing with. I can't speak for you on what your own vision is, but much as I love the traditional dwarves we're used to seeing, I also like more adventurous takes such as Tad Williams' dwarrows (aka dvernings / Tinukeda'ya) from Memory Sorrow and Thorn, and the Dwemer from the Elder Scrolls.
I've also always found Conan to be a great source of inspiration and I feel that over the years it has created a sort of unique "barbarian" type that is almost a sampling of a variety of different cultures from all over. So there's plenty of room for mixing it up.
As for the extant music, I'm digging Far Away and I think it has great potential to be, as you say, an "Into the West" king of track with vocals and all.
