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Title: KVR March
Post by: offthewall on March 20, 2014, 05:01:10 PM
It must be almost as long since I did a song for KVR as it has been since I did on here.  :-[
I'm trying ... honest!

As the theme this month is a March (for March) I have made a new arrangement of a song I did quite recently in a rather different form.
This was written (lyrics) by a Canadian lady known as Casia and has another Canadian guy doing a synth bagpipes section as well as my daughter, Lilah, contributing the penny-whistle. I programmed the marching drums in JamStix.

Hills Of Aberdeen (Casia)

One dark knight
To my light of day
One drop of whiskey
And knighthood is goin’ ta pay
I can’na  resist
A maiden in the night
I have a silver tongue
And a sword ready to fight

The full moon is rising
On the Hills of Aberdeen
I’m ready to take a stand
Ready with a steady hand
Oh, one dark knight
Makes a difference to my day
On the Hills of Aberdeen
Our love is here to stay

I hear them coming
Nothing can stop them now
But maybe a crimson moon
And some luck somehow
Give me one last kiss
Let the blood rush through my veins
I’ve lived a thousand lies
I won’t live in vain

The full moon is rising
On the Hills of Aberdeen
 I’m ready to take a stand
Ready with a steady hand
Oh, one dark knight
Makes a difference to my day
On the Hills of Aberdeen
Our love is here to stay

Am I a headless horseman
I have a soul you know
The pipers come to haunt me
It seems everywhere I go
In the end it’s you and I
Fighting for our lives
The glory of the future
I can see it your eyes

On this night of nights
In one moment of truth
I raise my sword up to the sky
In Aberdeen tonight
On this night of nights
In one moment of truth
I raise my sword up to the sky
In Aberdeen tonight


Lyrics: Casia (Canada)
Synth bagpipes: Michel Pilotte (Canada)
Penny whistle: Lilah (Edinburgh)
Drum programming, guitar, vocal, production: Offthewall.
Bedell Discovery acoustic guitar, Generation whistle, SeX1 mic, JamStix3.
ReaFir, ReaEQ, VOCEQ-PRO-C, OvertoneGEQ, Spector, OldSkoolVerb. REAPER.



Title: Re: KVR March
Post by: Oren on March 20, 2014, 09:31:43 PM
Nice production - plenty of audio interest - characterful execution.  (and I expected nothing less :-*)


Title: Re: KVR March
Post by: folderol on March 25, 2014, 09:21:58 PM
Nicely done James. You're up against some really stiff opposition over there :o


Title: Re: KVR March
Post by: Moon on March 26, 2014, 07:33:56 PM
Thums up!

Enjoable and signed with the James signature. Honestly, this makes me wanna come over to your Island and see you playing this live  ;)

Moon