This month of hello.music is dedicated to the cover. To keep the creative juices flowing, we’re changing it up again for the June EP. This month we each have to cover a few tracks written by the other two gents. How different will a song sound when someone else does it? Is a cover better if it stays true to the original or when it makes drastic changes? Find out those answers and more at the end of this month!
I shall start things off with a cover of a Michael Katzif song. First, listen to the original.,
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/ep/februaryEP/CloudedSpaces/01_LookOut.mp3]…and then take a peek at my cover of Look Out.
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/soundbox/hellomusic_greg/Look%20Out%20%28Acoustic%20Version%29.mp3]Tonight, I really wanted to just sit and play guitar to relax from the daily grind- didn’t even want to mess with a metronome track. Nothing too special, but it is quite a bit different from the original. Enjoy!
Greg this is really great. I had been tossing around the idea of having us not only cover someone else’s songs but perhaps our own. So I’ll open up the challenge to be devoted to covers in general. Covers of ourselves, covers perhaps of other artists, mashups if we’re so inclined. Interpret how you want here…
I have plans to probably do three songs this month… a cover of one of my own, a cover of one of Aryn or Greg (not sure yet) and something else I’m cooking up as well.
On to your cover… I think your version here is successful because you trim the fat of the original and get to the heart of the song itself.. in Nick Drake \ Jose Gonzalez style no less. The delicate guitar chords are great…and the casual way you recorded it is really warm and inviting, as if sitting in a living room or back porch.
You can this song change not only in tone and mood but also now in meaning. What was sort of an jaded ‘I’m fed up with you” anger of a break up, becomes something more of a lament.
Instead, the character here seems to be convincing himself that he’s okay with the break up of the relationship, but really he’s just lying to himself. It’s just a little twist on the same concept but somehow the introspective mood here has an underlying melancholy that really works nicely. Interesting how the lyrics can change meaning within a new context.
Can’t wait to show off my upcoming efforts.