From Paper to Performance – Episode Three [Part Two] Episode Three (part two) follows the example of the first part. I’m Not Driving Anymore came out in two versions. My original mix in the instrumental version and the remix of the song version. My original mix that combined the beats of the instrumental and the song was not ever released. It wasn’t…
From Paper to Performance – Episode Three [Happy New Year and 2020!] Happy New Year. And all the best for 2020! Episode Three (part A) is a bit unusual. One piece of music that has shot from the drawing board stage to a full arrangement is this re-working of an old version of Clubbed to Death II. It did because it already…
From Paper to Performance – Episode Two This is the second episode of From Paper to Performance. To look for other episodes or to look for anything just type into the search bar, or click on the The pieces looked at are: There’s Only Me Furious Angels (we look at two possible ideas for this)Nothing at All There’s Only Me Slower/more space/…
Delighted to get the first episode up of From Paper to Performance series up. We’ve been working hard on it. This episode deals with the planning stage and instrumentation and ideas for each track. The pieces looked at are: Nowhere (originally planned for Furious Angels but not included)Born Yesterday (we look at two possible ideas for this)Left Me For Dead (the huge…
One of the great things about releasing Films: Past and Future through PledgeMusic was the chance to share thoughts about recordings. This lead to recording a few ‘stripped down’ versions of songs with just voice and piano (and sometimes a pad or bass sound in the background). So we thought to record 14 or so songs starting with the piano and vocal…