365 Day 365: Lotus Flower (acoustic cover)

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.

365 Day 362ish: Am I Wry? No

by the wonderful band Mew. Happy Mew Year!

takes me back

365 Day 274: Leave

for a friend to her friend

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.

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

365 Day 207: Volcano

just played an open mic. it went pretty well. had to record something now though. felt like doing this one, even if I wasn't prepared in the least.

http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/99814/365_Day_207:_Volcano

365 Day 195: Corcovado

finally. electric part at the end isn't amazing, maybe I'll take that out. gotta get my linear guitar playing chops back up to snuff.

that fills up my third soundcloud account. prob should figure out another way of hosting these guys.

365 Day 195: Corcovado by dried

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

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

365 Day 166: Weave Myself a Dress (campfire cover) by dried

365 Day 152: Listen

Almost got it.

365 Day 152: Listen by dried

365 Day 138: Get Out of Town

redid.

365 Day 138: Get out of town by dried

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).

365 Day 137: Get out of Town by dried

365 Day 136: Sit

I love how perfect intervals growl.

I need to sit down and organize my life.

365 Day 136: Sit by dried

365 Day 133: Soviet

just an idea built around a mewithoutyou line. will develop later.

365 Day 133: Soviet by dried

365 Day 127: All In

6 minutes left in this soundcloud account!

365 Day 127: All In by daveriedstra

365 Day 126: Slippery When Wet

365 Day 119: Drip

Kind of related to the idea of an X-cell, which is two tritones a semitone apart, but this is two perfect fifths a semitone apart, poorly sung.

365 Day 119: Drip by daveriedstra

365 Day 112: Locomotion

Moved into a new house. still not unpacked all the way. tired as sin, but I'm going to go for a drink.

...this actually happened. weird.

365 Day 112: Locomotion by daveriedstra

365 Day 105: WebAdvisor is dumb

Day 104 is coming, someone else has it on their computer.

365 Day 105: WebAdvisor is dumb by daveriedstra

365 Day 100: Simple

I was going to make this a monumental post, but I'm busy with exams. however, day 122 -- roughly 1/3 of the way through -- is mostly free so far, so I'll put something big up on that day!

365 Day 100: Simple by daveriedstra