"Repent Walpurgis" Procol Harum (Bach Prelude)

"Prelude i" was the first song I learned on the keys. I heard it in a Justonic Pitch Palette video in the fall of 2010. I recognized it, but couldn't place where I'd heard it before. "Oh, that Cacophony thing. Was it the Black Cat outro? No, that's not it..."
It took me going through my music library looking for it. I'd heard it years before when I'd found "the First Four" by Procol Harum. I spent the fall of 2005 immersed in their music. But I'd put it down for a few years because I was listening "too closely", too analytically, and not in a natural way.
But Repent Walpurgis, I could tell that was a big Procol Harum moment. I remembered really liking the Bach part because it was just so emotional.
I had lived with it for such a long time, and never knew it was a Bach quote. It's a pretty popular piece of music, too. (I've heard it in everything from tv shows, to commercials, but it's still a haunting, and beautiful piece)
So when I found it again, I just started learning it one afternoon, then the next, and soon I could play it. (I remember it felt like the hardest thing in the world at the time) But it opened a new chapter for me, and I started listening to Procol Harum again, after a few years of putting them down.
The footage was from October, there was even this white owl that showed up. I followed it and waited for it to come down. Everyone was looking at me like, "what the heck is he doing?" But after twenty minutes, I just had to let it go. My night was just beginning, and I had lots to do.
Btw- that stereo mic placement is sort of a sweet spot- 18" high, 27" apart, hypercardioid to get that tinny, sixties sound. I called it "Whispering Wind", it's a place of the natural reverb washing in.
It's just using the sound of the room, there's no acoustic treatment. It's kind of that Jimmy Page way of doing things, like Zeppelin IV.
The organ was actually my cheap light up Casio keyboard from Target with no velocity sensitivity whatsoever. (So you can hit it really hard or soft, and it sounds the same) But that was just kind of a fun, last minute idea.

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Cosa dire non ci sono parole. Fantastici.