Here is my final recording, a condensed cover of Radiohead's Lotus Flower, featuring my generous and talented friend Chris Wattam on the vocals. I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Lotus Flower was originally written by Radiohead and they own all the rights and if one of their reps wants it down I'll gladly take it down deargodpleasedon'tsuemeIdon'thaveanymoney.
And with that the project is completed. I'll probably post a big old debriefing thing tomorrow sometime, but for now I'm going to go breathe a sigh of relief at the watering hole.
Showing posts with label cover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cover. Show all posts
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
365 Day 361: ami demo
the rest of this cover to be finished tomorrow morning (vocals, mastering, touch up tracks, etc). points if you can guess which tune by what band it is before then.
I have discovered a numbering disparity. A while ago I switched from counting the days I had done to the days I had yet to do, but I foolishly dated back from the day the project started, not the day it should finish. so this SHOULD be day 362, or something. whatever, it's almost done.
posts from yesterday and the day before to come, they're still on my phone and I am le tired.
[edit] yesterday (360) and the day before (359).
[editt] oh no, this numbering stuff is off. I must've missed something more drastic somewhere.
I have discovered a numbering disparity. A while ago I switched from counting the days I had done to the days I had yet to do, but I foolishly dated back from the day the project started, not the day it should finish. so this SHOULD be day 362, or something. whatever, it's almost done.
posts from yesterday and the day before to come, they're still on my phone and I am le tired.
[edit] yesterday (360) and the day before (359).
[editt] oh no, this numbering stuff is off. I must've missed something more drastic somewhere.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
365 Day 270: Messes of Men (cover)
mewithoutYou cover. should've actually memorized the lyrics and set up a click track... and tuned more thoroughly. but whatever. acoustic guitar and voice recorded same track with mic, two electric guitars and bass added later.
getting better at the clawhammer style I'm adopting from Ben.
I'd never want someone so crass as to want someone like me.
getting better at the clawhammer style I'm adopting from Ben.
I'd never want someone so crass as to want someone like me.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
365 Day 252: Hunter (Bjork cover)
Bjork cover done on electric bass and electric guitar. additional hardware used was an ebow and a mason jar.
some nice warm low end for ya.
some nice warm low end for ya.
Monday, September 5, 2011
365 Day 243: Space Dubstep Remix
Finally a decent recording to commemorate the 2/3rds mark of the 365 project!
Remixed a little minimalist piece from earlier and also sampled this one. other than that I think I used the bass drum sample stretched once for the snare and then again and with a hell of a hi-pass for some of the noise at the beginning.
I didn't think of it, but I should've really accented the structure of the original tune. Guess I sort of did, but not a whole lot.
Here she is.
(also I should point out that I don't really listen to dubstep or go clubbing that often)
Remixed a little minimalist piece from earlier and also sampled this one. other than that I think I used the bass drum sample stretched once for the snare and then again and with a hell of a hi-pass for some of the noise at the beginning.
I didn't think of it, but I should've really accented the structure of the original tune. Guess I sort of did, but not a whole lot.
Here she is.
(also I should point out that I don't really listen to dubstep or go clubbing that often)
Sunday, August 7, 2011
365 Day 214: I Made the Law (cover)
Originally by The Acorn. Practiced using compression on it, and it worked really well - it's at the volume where it sounds natural after a "professionally masted" punk tune (only thing I really have to test against, my external hdd isn't plugged in). Only thing is that it brought out the distortion in my acoustic's line in -- probably battery was dying, may also have to do with the fact that I was overdriving the channel for half of the recording and didn't bother redoing it (first take ftw). still fairly happy with it.
http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/100315/365_Day_214:_I_Made_the_Law_%28cover%29
http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/100315/365_Day_214:_I_Made_the_Law_%28cover%29
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
365 Day 182: In a Sweater Poorly Knit (cover)
A cover of one of my favourite mewithoutYou songs to celebrate being halfway done my 365 project.
I also launched my website today to celebrate -- www.daveriedstra.com!
One of these days I'm going to go through the project and make a list of my favourite posts.
365 Day 182: In a Sweater Poorly Knit (cover) by dried
One of these days I'm going to go through the project and make a list of my favourite posts.
365 Day 182: In a Sweater Poorly Knit (cover) by dried
Monday, June 20, 2011
365 Day 166: Weave Myself a Dress (campfire cover)
not totally suited to my voice. I'll pretend that that's intentional to contribute to the "actually there" feeling of it (mic 5 ft away, ambient noise, guitar a little out of tune).
plus I just love anything bruce peninsula does
Thursday, June 16, 2011
365 Day 162: How Great Thou Art
http://www.mediafire.com/?1z99t1vajlo3012
(26.1 MB file)
Classic hymn. Use it for stuff if you want. Recorded for TDCH's production of Our Town.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
365 Day 137:Get out of Town
A Cole Porter tune, but using the Sara Serpa & Ran Blake recording as my reference. but of course, my version is a lot fuzzier and ambient and "I just got home from the bar early on a muggy summer day and I'm feeling melancholy" (my new adjective).
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
365 Day 91: Vianuel
Written by John Zorn, originally arranged and performed by medeski martin & wood (I'm not sure whose bass line that is, but I love it), arranged here by yours truly. Should sound pretty sweet with the full combo and a bit of tidying up.
I'm still not sure if I'm comfortable with playing it. It sounds kind of generally Eastern, and I'm really against just using foreign sounds for the sake of it... but it's great.
I'm still not sure if I'm comfortable with playing it. It sounds kind of generally Eastern, and I'm really against just using foreign sounds for the sake of it... but it's great.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
365 Days 81 & 82
Auditioning for a job with this bruce cockburn tune tomorrow:
late post (sorry, power cord issues):
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
365 Day 21: Crow's Feet
Wilderness of Manitoba cover.
No mastering on the voice -- this mic is awesome.
Bass part written on the bus on the way back from Toronto. Would maybe like to come back to this sometime when I don't have to be at the bar half an hour ago.
happy three weeks, 365 project
Monday, January 10, 2011
365 Day 6: White Tooth Man
Experimental. Not sure if I succeeded. White Tooth Man originally by Iron and Wine.
So heavy.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
365 Day 1: On Your Wings
I'm sure you've heard of the 365 project, and the variations on it. People take a photograph, usually of themselves, each day for a year. I've decided to undertake a similar project, but with audio recordings of myself.
These will probably not be of amazing quality, but I'm about to come into possession of a nice mic which will make everything better. Until then, from my laptop mic:
On Your Wings originally written by Iron and Wine. I take no ownership of this wonderful song.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)