Beat Of The Week: Βασιλευζ (Basileus)

August 26, 2012
Posted by DarrenW

So, this week, its my turn! (Though I'm not supposed to be here XD)

And no, no K-Pop, or J-Pop or Vocaloid for that matter.

I will be doing one of my personal favourite tracks from one of my favourite OSTs. Yes, Basileus.

And it is an orchestral piece.

A lot of you might not heard of this song before, but it comes from a very controversial anime, "Guilty Crown / ギルティクラウン"

Although not famed for a very captivating or proper plot structure, having loopholes, filled with setting problems and a sad ending, the anime did have ONE AWESOME fact to it. THE MUSIC.

Hiroyuki Sawano

Well, the OP & EDs were made by Supercell (Another time), but the OST was mainly composed by Hiroyuki Sawano / 澤野弘之, who also composed many other masterpieces for this anime, like Krone, ge19, omega and Genesis.

Basileus was not used a lot in the anime, but was used for the parts in the anime right before the climax, of which, I have to contend, was skillfully executed. This piece really was well made for its purpose.

The orchestral piece, consists of two parts, Starting at 0:00 and around 2:07. The first part has a slow relaxing pace to it, which then comes in with the chorus, which is just eargasmic. Then at 2:07 the beat comes in. I like to call them "war-drums", where the beat really gets you going, then the wind instruments come in and really make it sound so good.

The problem I found was, not many people know about this piece. Is it that bad? Okay maybe the target audience for orchestra pieces are small, but, this is real nice! And so I chose this for today.

And come on, who did not just feel the impact at 3:20?



Will be back on thursday. Hold ON till then!
DarrenW