Westron Rose | https://youtu.be/OkcRTkwRBNI

Set in WWII, a hybrid symphony about man's inner war expressed in the outer scales of world war with redemption found in our lost vulnerability; written on the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's ninth.

Sound design, foley, composition, performance, recording, editing, mixing, album photo and graphic design by AMIKO JEAN https://linktr.ee/amikojean

Dedicated to my family

© ℗ 2024 AMIKO JEAN. All Rights Reserved.

Papers, first movement https://youtu.be/OkcRTkwRBNI

Papers can mean being drafted, letters home while deployed, and a letter no mother wants to receive. A soldier is picked up by his men as we follow his war through fields of open battle, tanks plowing over breaking bridges, followed by air strikes towards the beaches where metal sinks metal in the deep seas, and come to rest back in the open fields.

War Bonds, second movement https://youtu.be/p0PNmPeVO8M

War breaks as well as bonds. Men excited to break free of the bondage and boredom of the depression era seek adventure and belonging through the advent of war, only weeks later to perish, or to survive and bond in silence with those who have also known war.

Westron Rose, third movement https://youtu.be/QnraqYZBmOg

The underlying theme in slow motion, as survivors wake within the rubble to come across the rose. The lost femininity that opens and heals.

Kneel, fourth movement https://youtu.be/pVwadaE-HEc

So the rose may bloom again. Kneel to heal; as one ego dies, another emerges. A balance of male and female choirs and the absence of the main theme indicate a new narrative.

• Underlying theme for Westron Rose originally composed by AMIKO JEAN for the Paper World animation music and sound redesign https://youtu.be/POL2qZVCCWk

Not jazz and way more than 40 seconds | Dedicated to our inner kids

Improvized overnight on a camping cot with backup equipment after abandoning material entrapment out West for artistic freedom on the East coast.

Composition, performance, recording, editing, mixing, album photo and design by AMIKO JEAN | https://linktr.ee/amikojean

© ℗ 2024 AMIKO JEAN. All Rights Reserved.