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yes I have a sense of how challenging that must be from having tried Northern Lights on karaoke.   Suffice to say you did far better than me!

But on to other relevant topics.  Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth did a neat video at a famous record store in NYC in which he dug up vinyl that was a big influence on him, and guess which album showed up?  It is between 2:50 and 4:10 or in this video




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^ Clap You're a brave guy Madan!!
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Took the risk of attempting to sing a Renaissance song! I mostly stick to Hindi and some R&B/alt/soft rock (Wonder/Radiohead/Steely Dan) and the toughest song I have previously attempted was Jeff Buckley's Last Goodbye.

But I chanced on a software that can take vocals out of a recording so used it to create a karaoke of sorts for I Think Of You. Which is probably the easiest song in Annie's repertoire and still not frightfully easy. At least not if you have to sing in the same key (or the exact octave below, as I did). Annie carries an astonishing amount of brightness even into her low range and that's HARD. I also had to do three different takes, not because I was struggling with pitch, but because she straddles a perfect balance of minimalism and expression and if I tried to override the backbeat - which I love to do - it made the rendition sound lazy or lacking in intensity. I could have got around the low note being too low if I could simply sing in a higher key because a D4 (the high note) is very easy for me but obviously when I am using the original music, I don't have that option and had to make a fist of it.

I usually stop attempting retakes at the point where I think I have hit my ceiling, regardless of how low or high it happens to be in that song! So here goes. Hopefully didn't totally murder the song for you.



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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

An oddball Annie song that Psychedelic Paul might like.
That was Poptastic! Thumbs Up I'm just old enough to remember that "Flowers in the Rain" by The Move was the first ever recorded played on BBC Radio 1 by Tony Blackburn way back in 1967.
Right you are. I remember the Move had a male vocalist that seemed to disappear very quickly after this song came out.
I just realised I made a typo error in my last message. It should have said "record" and not "recorded" Smile
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

An oddball Annie song that Psychedelic Paul might like.
That was Poptastic! Thumbs Up I'm just old enough to remember that "Flowers in the Rain" by The Move was the first ever recorded played on BBC Radio 1 by Tony Blackburn way back in 1967.
Right you are. I remember the Move had a male vocalist that seemed to disappear very quickly after this song came out.
I just realised I made a typo error in my last message. It should have said "record" and not "recorded" Smile
 
I just Googled The Move and discovered that the vocalist who disappeared from The Move soon after "Flowers in the Rain" was Carl Wayne. He also sang "Fire Brigade" and he sounded remarkably like Roy Wood. In fact, I'd always assumed it was Roy Wood on vocals on those two records until now. Smile


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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

An oddball Annie song that Psychedelic Paul might like.
That was Poptastic! Thumbs Up I'm just old enough to remember that "Flowers in the Rain" by The Move was the first ever recorded played on BBC Radio 1 by Tony Blackburn way back in 1967.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

An oddball Annie song that Psychedelic Paul might like.
That was Poptastic! Thumbs Up I'm just old enough to remember that "Flowers in the Rain" by The Move was the first ever record played on BBC Radio 1 by Tony Blackburn way back in 1967.


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An oddball Annie song that Psychedelic Paul might like.
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pretty awesome indeed
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Hahaha!
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^ This is cool. I fast forwarded straight to the F5 section in Ashes Are Burning. I guess we know our Annie!
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Meanwhile, a nice video that compiles noteworthy notes (high and low) hit by Annie over the years.  By selecting a cross section of old and new stuff, it ends up also showcasing her repertoire.
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^^  There are a couple others floating on the net. 

This one is very average.



This one is far more professional but kinda slick for my taste.  Also, the singer avoids actually belting out that note and sings it in a head voice.  The singer of Ashtar actually went for the note and nailed it.
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Fantastic cover of Ashes Are Burning. Definitely the best Renaissance cover I have heard.




Wonder if this is the singer Annie once referred to as accompanying her in the Brazil solo tour.
Clap This is great but it's the only cover of Ashes Are Burning I've ever heard. I should have spent more time in Brazil! LOL

I must assume that with a fiddle player this group does a lot of Curved Air covers too. 
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Fantastic cover of Ashes Are Burning. Definitely the best Renaissance cover I have heard.




Wonder if this is the singer Annie once referred to as accompanying her in the Brazil solo tour.
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And, thanks to southsideofthesky, news of a rerelease of Turn of the Cards, incorporating one previously unreleased track, various remixes, the live at the Academy of Music 1974 show on 2 CDs, and a surround sound DVD of the original album



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sometime in 2020 the hidef DVD of the latest tour will be available to view and discuss
Madan, have you scheduled your skype with Annie yet?
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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^ Very nice Paul. You got your first "Thanks" from me. Keep it up.

Thanks! That's probably the first compliment I've had from you. Wink I hope you enjoy the second Renaissance concert too from as recently as 2015.
 
I'm hoping that's the first time anyone's posted those two Renaissance concerts on this thread. It would have taken me far too long to go back through all 33 pages to check. Smile
 
One of the main advantages of watching YouTube music videos on Prog Archives is there are no annoying ads to interrupt the music and I can watch them in full screen mode on a 40-inch TV screen TV, if I view them on Google Chrome instead of Internet Explorer 9. Smile




We may have posted and discussed these concerts before. But it's alright. It's become a long thread. And can do with a few periodical bumps.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Oh, I can tell you're trying. You're just awkward with discussions. You take things too personally or critically when they're not meant to be. We all can't like the same artists and music here, but we can co-exist fairly civilly.
 
Yes, I've been told I can be very trying at times. Wink


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