Dragon Roost Island ft CookedChicory - Multi-instrumental nonsense and normal type nonsense.

Ultimately, this was CookedChicory's project, and I was l just fortunate to tag along for the ride, so here are his words on this from his upload:

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Here is a cover of Dragon Roost Island from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.
This is not entirely my cover since, for the first time, I have been collaborating with someone else.

The initial idea is from me. I have been meaning to cover it for more than a year. Since Ollie released his Odd Flutes VST. I thought covering this tune would be fitting. I am not good enough on keys for such rythmic tracks. Futhermore, a guitar would be more suited. I have been following Nobody from Nowhere for quite some time now and also wished that we could do something together. I have been meaning to ask him for most of the year but was overloaded with day work and side projects. I benefited from finishing my entry for the Soundole Contest 2023 and a Nobody from Nowhere confidential twitch stream to ask and he said "Sure man, shoot me an email".

So it was set. It was late May or early June. It was a rollercoaster from there as the day work wasn't getting any easier. I created a full arrangement and we started recording. I was late but managed to record my parts. It was quite the ride as I was only asking for a guitar part but NfN was full of ideas and we kept adding instruments. I was spent but eager to do the mixing because I learn so much through the process. NfN was eager to learn too, and managed the mix/master all by himself. Honestly, that was a great help, not only the NfN mix is great but I don't think I would have managed to survive this load of work.

While I did the whole video editing, NfN was able to produce excellent goofy introductions to this video. They are really good an funny.
Also, I may have produced the initial arrangement, NfN made some welcomed modifications on the percussion parts.
One of the initial ideas behind all this was to showcase Ollie's Odd Flutes. He is one of the reason I took on Youtube VGM Cover. I wish I could be able to do it. His work was important, because he was doing this as a side project and I thought "Maybe I can do this too". Little did I know he was a touring pro before that. :D

So here goes the credit to this.
Arrangement: Cooked Chicory / Nobody from Nowhere
Guitar/Charango/U-Bass: Nobody from Nowhere
Alto Sax/Clarinets/Aerophones: Cooked Chicory
Toms/Snare/Kick/Cymbals/Tambourine/Maracas/Rain Stick/Claves: Cooked Chicory
Mix/master: Nobody From Nowhere
Video Editing: Cooked Chicory
Goofy Commercials: Nobody from Nowhere

Thanks a lot mate, that was a ride and we should do it again.

Alsto thanks Ollie for being an inspiration.
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If you are not familiar with CookedChicory's work, you need to check his youtube channel:

/@cookedchicory6742.
He's a multi-instrumentalist with a focus on wind and woodwind instruments and primarily covers vidyagame music; however, occasionally, there is an oddman out, and those are worth a listen, too:)

Here are a couple recommendations:
The Legend of Zelda - Ending Theme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdmq0HXXtqE
A lighlty jazzy rendition of the theme with a series of short solos for most instruments used:)

Super Meat Boy - Forest Funk - https://youtu.be/jdk8-NNeUU0?si=p4IDvMxGRznhT2Fy

Aside from the song just being cool, the arrangement lends well to CC's musical strengths:)