Post by Steve CoxPost by Bodhranichttp://youtu.be/TMdNPIp9-4o
Made my Friday night.
Nice mix of moods in the song, and the video is brilliant,
they work together very well.
Thanks for the link.
Gotta ask...mind sharing more about your role in this?
Are you on other tunes on the CD?
Steve C
Thank you Steve. I only wrote the chorus melody & lyric ("It's you,
it's love, all I need, all I need"). The original instrumental demo
was sent to me by my lifelong friend Michael Allison who records under
the name of Darshan Ambient. He is a big fan of Yes & Genesis and
records ambient music of his own sort of like Eno with a mellow groove
vibe. I have sent his music to Jon Anderson and Jon enjoys it a lot...
hopefully one day they will do something together, or possibly finish
a song that was initially played around with called "Make Love Not
War."
But back to this song, "It's You". On November 9, 2009, I was the
victim of downsizing and lost my job of 5 years organizing
entertainment for a major casino. My heart was heavy coming home and
was thinking about how I was going to tell my wife. Michael sent me
his demo and I listened to it when I got home and the track really hit
me hard. I came up with words and melody and spoke to Michael and from
there he began to develop the idea into what it is now.
In the video I added the scene capture from the video of the Peter
Gabriel/Kate Bush duet "Don't Give Up", relating to the
disappointment, but counting on the love.
If you have a chance, please listen to the samples you can find on
Amazon or itunes of the Darshan Ambient album "A Day Within Days". I
think you will like the rest of it, though it is all instrumental
other than "It's You". Michael sings beautifully and one other track
he has on itunes with his vocal is "Man In The Window." Michael has
been working on a "Genesis Project" that I suggested. The album is a
collection of ambient reworkings of classic Genesis, heavily Gabriel
era. I suggest you find Darshan Ambient on Facebook and "friend" him.
He loads a lot of music there including the Genesis tracks he's
working on. You may also find a fantastic video of "The Musical Box"
on YouTube, just search _ Musical Box Darshan Ambient _ or when I get
a chance I will post it here.
: )