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An album of covers and quasi-religose music, produced over the last few months. Some of these are quite beautiful, others are very ugly. Most of them weren't written by me, although some were.
Here they are:
1: St. Withiel Delivers From Evil.
2: Fidelity (Regina Spektor Cover).
3: How St. Withiel Got The Girl, The Boy and the Enormous Sack of Cash.
4: Nothing Compares 2U (Prince Cover, sort of)
5: Orinoco Flow (Enya Cover, rerelease)
6: Pride (U2 cover)
7: The Queen is Dead (Smiths Cover)
8: Remake/Remodel (Roxy Music Cover)
9: Democracy (Leonard Cohen Cover)
10: Two Hearts, One Dead.
Some of the words of the cover have, of course, been altered, and the arrangements are more or less unrecognisable. All tracks free for distribution via whatever method you please, although you might want to watch whatever your local rules on covers are.
As ever, hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed recording them.
Some notes on this one: I've been really experimenting with production and vocal/instrumental techniques recently, and a shorter album of mostly covers seemed like a good idea to give the sound some time to evolve. Hence, some tracks (the Queen is Dead, for example) have much cleaner productions than others (Two Hearts, which is meant to sound like an old blues record). Moreover, I've brought back the clarinet sound, and started playing guitar with things like forks and shards of broken glass (mostly on Nothing Compares). Almost all of these songs are ones that are important to me, with the exceptions of Pride and Orinoco Flow, which are more attempts to put the songs into genres that suit them a bit better. As ever, the recording quality should have improved a bit since the last one - all of these are recorded using Jeskola Buzz and Audacity, and the cheapest computer microphone imaginable.
Also, this is a more "open" album than the last two - there's almost a complete lack of choral overdub/voice processing here, and for the first time I've included an actual photo of my head on the cover. This, hopefully, is a reflection that despite the whole ironic-messiah "St. Withiel" shtick, these are a selection of heartfelt recordings.
Finally, thanks to Chiropteran for exhaustive concrit and words of support, Thaddeus "b" Glands for help with the production on a couple of tracks, and the original songwriters. Who wrote most of the songs. Obviously
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