Le Bouy et la Mermaid - "Photo de Vous"

Having a listen on the mail PC through Teac concentric speaker, sounds reasonable.  The spoken vocal sounds in a different space, but will need to listen in the studio for a real listen.

Thanks for sharing.
 
 
Second listen update.
 
Guitar pleasant the mix of spoken and sung vocals is interesting, as the Wookiee vocal tract is not capable of singing in the range of human hearing any observation about singing is probably not appropriate.  Still feel that there are points where the spoken sounds/feels in a different space.
 
Cheers

Very Nice Tune. For some reason, I think I would like to hear an accordion accompanying this sweet song. Kind of like a Kevin Ayers tune. Really nice!

I love it, Jon!  I guess I'll forgive you one more time for continue leaving me even farther in the dust. 

Anyway, this is great!  Guitar playing sounds very convincing.  :-)  Sounds like you've got you a great singing partner there too. (wtg, Kerry!!)  I can only imagine how many more songs we'll be hearing from you now that you've got your own resident vocalist.  Not to mention the fact that you do a great job yourself! 

Like some have mentioned, she could stand to come closer to you I think.  I know she's singing bgv's, but it's like she's a little too far back or something. 

Drums fit so perfectly I hardly noticed them, which is actually a compliment, IYKWIM.  :-)  Keep up the great work, Jon!  :-)

Cool delivery and down-tempo feel. Nice guitar playing too, very convincing. I like how you altered between the sung and spoken parts. Kerry does a great job on the bgv's. Encourage her to do more recording. I listened a few times and really like this tune. Nice work.

Beautiful melody and poem. Sounds like a Julio Iglesias song.  I particularly like the guitar solo at the end.
 
Here, in Memories don't fade near as quickly as the view, it sounds over-stuffed with words.  The word near sounds awkward (it should read nearly, too). If you take it out (I did when I played it again and sang along), the song flows just as well. It just seems so cluttered with it.

original and quirky, and you get away with it! in parts it almost reminds me of how Philip layers his vocals. guitars sound pretty convincing dude! has a kinda end-of-summer feel to it. sweet.

Awesome!

Last night the server was having issues....

so here I be.... super song.... bring up the mermaid some.... and rewrite the chorus... some of the lines are trying to say too many words..... boil it down to the essence and let it flow smoothly.

nice chops on the nylon...

Nice, Jon.  Your vocal is so interesting.  You make it work.  Hey, who is the Mermaid?  Cool song!!  Oh, is that not a real guitar?  If not, it coul;d be the best midi guitar I've heard!

John: Thanks for the listen and  the comments.

Rick: Thank you too for the comments I made some amendments based on those.

James: Yes I think some accordion and perhaps some garlic would add to the French flavour.

Dean: Many thanks for popping by, some embellishments during the spoken passages could be a good idea.

Janet: Thanks for the further encouragement, it's nice to get a tune done for a change rather than keeping myself bogged down in the production stuff.  Kerry sure appreciates the props on her first vocal attempt and she was supposed to be a wistful voice in the distance here but I almost thought of dropping my vocal she worked out so well.

Exquisite, delicious, delightful!

On 1st listen, my ears crave Melodyne/Autotune/V-vocal ... in the 2 choruses (lead vox) ...  That would send this soaring sky-high, to my macho ears.  Of course I'm of the military school, "real men love melodyne" ... so I may be wrong.

The love poetics are powerful.  Message and delivery are fit perfectly.

Guitar middle is exceeding lovely, crisp, ear-enticing, lovely.

paulo


That's alright - don't mention it..............................oh you didn't......... oh well, just pretend I never said anything.......oh you did .........as you were then.

Well being as you bumped it back to the top...

Ron: Thanks a lot, that was the vibe I was after.

Bill: Thanks man, nice to hear you back around too.

James: Yes, it's difficult to sing with my teeth in.

Peggy: I agree 'near' is redundant there. Maybe I'll retrack it now I'm more familiar with the song.

Ron: Thanks muchly.

Mark: Getting away with it is my forte thanks for dropping by.

Strummy:  Thanks for that ol' pal.

10Ten: Awesome works for me.

Rick: Thanks for coming by again.

Herb: Yes, the too many syllables was pretty much a stylistic choice as I was originally going to write a French version and those kind of songs seem to have more syllables than line space.

Larry: I'm glad you got the vibe and I appreciate the notes on the sounds.

Warren: It's a midi guitar for sure I'm using a free refill for the sounds, cool huh?

Paulo: Sorry I didn't reply earlier but the track had disappeared off the radar and I was a bit loath to bump it back up to the top, but yes my vocal skills need honing a whole bunch, the use of so many syllables was deliberate but I need to work some more to be able to handle it.  The guitar was done in Reason using a free refill by Ueupe.  It is available via the 'Reasonstation' site.

Frank: Yes I'm pretty sure I'm going have to investigate some serious pitch correction methods. Thanks man.

Philip: As I said I shall have to look into the whole autotune thing.  I'm glad you liked the tune.

Paulo: What can I say?...   Here's the link to that refill I mentioned it's the bottom one on the list.

http://www.mediafire.com/ueupe