[LAU] [New music]: Kisses don't lie, a ballad

[Will Godfrey]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 22:02:16 +0200 (CEST)
"Jeanette C." <julien at mail.upb.de> wrote:

>Hey hey,
>the classification as ballad was probably unnecessary, with that title. Here 
>it is and some (remarkable) remarks below:
>http://juliencoder.de/nama/kisses_dont_lie.ogg
>http://juliencoder.de/nama/kisses_dont_lie.mp3
>
>This is only an instrumental, should you be female with a good strong voice 
>and willing to give it a try: please get in touch.
>
>This piece actually came to me in a dream. Well, I dreamt its chorus. It was 
>so strong in my mind when I awoke that I wanted to make it the perfect example 
>of a powerful love ballad. The dream title had been "Chocolate don't lie", as 
>sweet as that might be, I decided the kisses would make more sense. :) The 
>rest of the song came easily, perhaps partly remembered from the dream, partly 
>obvious (to me), seeing that I wanted to create my personal clichee or essence 
>of that type of song.
>
>Technically this song uses Yoshimi, LinuxSampler with a self-compiled acoustic 
>drumkit from parts of the Salamander kit, the AVLinux kit and one or two 
>extras. Also in LinuxSampler a proprietary acoustic piano and SSO strings. 
>This was further augmented by additional hardware synths of all kinds. The 
>electric piano is the real DX7 full-tines on a DX7. :)
>
>Of course it needed tons of LADSPA and LV2 plugins, since everything was 
>recorded completely dry. Fons Adriaensen's G2Verb, the TAP plate, Invada and 
>Calf mixing tools and Fons' great four band parametric EQ.
>
>Guitars were played and recorded by Joy Bausch on a non-Linux platform. Very 
>many thanks to him for such a wonderful and to-the-point interpretation of my 
>intentions.
>
>If you have comments or feedback - particularlynice one :) -, please let me 
>know. But also don't hesitate to give the other kind of comment.
>
>Best wishes and enjoy,
>
>Jeanette
>

Well, it took me ages to get around to finding time to listen to this, but it
was well worth it. Very enjoyable with lots of dynamics, and a rich variety of
well chosen instruments.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.