Download mp3: Summertime Quiet

This is a version of a previously release collaboration with Henriette Isabella Berggren, entitled Summertime In Bureaucratic Portions. The blurb goes as follows:

This was an odd collaboration that happened via the Renoise messaged boards. Henriette Isabella Berggren, from Norway, was looking to provide vocals to producers so that she could gain experience and confidence in the process of vocal recording. One of the items she posted was a demo of a folk song called Summertime - just the vocal track that you could tell she had sung to a simple guitar backing. I took the vocals and went about mapping them into a new song with different chords and rhythms. This was difficult because the original take wasn't sung to a mechanical bmp, and her phrasing wasn't as sure of itself because it was a demo. Nevertheless I got a very electronic and moody backing track done and sent the mash-up back to her. Fortunately she liked it and we went ahead with a release, which is what you hear here. Henriette did express that she wanted to do a stronger vocal take more suited to the mood of my music. We did a little work on that, but due to complexity of life, the project has been postponed to an unknown date.

Fast forward to now, I was doing some spring cleaning of files and stumbled upon the file. Instantly the drums seemed a little misplaced, so I muted them. My ears fell into the deep chords and how Henriette's voice floated above them like some half whispered dream. A quick edit and remastering resulted in what we have here, a quiet mix.

My imagination wanders... Again this is tense heat, but at night. A sweaty dream that boarders between bliss and nightmare.