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This is my remix of Ed Hannifin's song "Mist Comes Up the Valley". I suggested to Ed that I thought it would be nice with bass guitar instead of a midi bass and he suggested I take a shot at re-mixing it. I recorded my bass guitar, added a couple drum and percussion tracks, a misty ambient (bitcrushed) wind track, and a track that is a section of the original mp3 of the EJH mix, reversed and looped and highly effected with Filtertaps, Supatrigga and Echo. Then I took Ed's original .band file package and found the first take of Mysti's vocal and the first take of Ed's guitar and mixed those in, in varying degrees. First thought being best thought, I used those takes intentionally with only one vocal, only one guitar track, having intended to get back to basics in this song...so to speak. Since the song is about getting lost in dreams and/or how you imagine the world when wrapped in mist, I thought it would be good if it had a sort of subconscious/ambient mix.
I was going to put it in the bossa nova category because that's the beat, but I really wanted to put it in the folk-electronica category, except that there isn't one. Sort of like Cibelle, perhaps.
The original is here: http://www.macjams.com/song/28492
jiguma has done a version that can be found here: http://www.macjams.com/song/28679
The song art is a picture that I took while driving through a dense winter fog in the foothills of the Adirondacks on the way to see my father for the last time before he passed away in 2006. At the time I certainly felt much like what's expressed by the words of this song...
(and if you are among those that get notified about a new song of mine, I apologize if you got one for a song that didn't exist-I discovered a glitch inthe first version I uploaded and deleted it pretty quickly until I could fix it. Just in case you were wondering. If you weren't...never mind!))
I was going to put it in the bossa nova category because that's the beat, but I really wanted to put it in the folk-electronica category, except that there isn't one. Sort of like Cibelle, perhaps.
The original is here: http://www.macjams.com/song/28492
jiguma has done a version that can be found here: http://www.macjams.com/song/28679
The song art is a picture that I took while driving through a dense winter fog in the foothills of the Adirondacks on the way to see my father for the last time before he passed away in 2006. At the time I certainly felt much like what's expressed by the words of this song...
(and if you are among those that get notified about a new song of mine, I apologize if you got one for a song that didn't exist-I discovered a glitch inthe first version I uploaded and deleted it pretty quickly until I could fix it. Just in case you were wondering. If you weren't...never mind!))
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Lyrics
The Mist Comes Up The Valley
© 1984 Ed Hannifin
In the morning, we turn our backs to the wind
It’s no use, pretending the cold will give in
The mist comes up the valley, swallowing granite and tree
I thought I heard a gull cry, but we’re ninety miles from the sea
And I might be anywhere
I might be anyone
I could be anywhere at all
You can’t see what causes a heart to remain
Surrounded by the evergreen and the rain
But when the mist comes up the valley, and the firs turn black and white
The only light’s the moonlight, but the moon is out of sight
I might be anywhere
I might be anyone
I might be anywhere at all
It’s easy, when dreaming is all that you dare
To fall for a life made of water and air
The mist comes up the valley, softening all guarantees
An open invitation to imagine the world as I please
And I might be anywhere
I might be anyone
I might be anyone at all
© 1984 Ed Hannifin
In the morning, we turn our backs to the wind
It’s no use, pretending the cold will give in
The mist comes up the valley, swallowing granite and tree
I thought I heard a gull cry, but we’re ninety miles from the sea
And I might be anywhere
I might be anyone
I could be anywhere at all
You can’t see what causes a heart to remain
Surrounded by the evergreen and the rain
But when the mist comes up the valley, and the firs turn black and white
The only light’s the moonlight, but the moon is out of sight
I might be anywhere
I might be anyone
I might be anywhere at all
It’s easy, when dreaming is all that you dare
To fall for a life made of water and air
The mist comes up the valley, softening all guarantees
An open invitation to imagine the world as I please
And I might be anywhere
I might be anyone
I might be anyone at all
perceptualvortex
You're certainly good at remixing the bossa nova versions of songs. The bass is very nice, and bridges between the vocals and drums well. The rest seems to have been blurred into the ethereal, which sounds perfect. I like this take of the vox; it seems that Mysti is grooving to the beat you've laid down, somehow. Another excellent mix of a really fine tune.