Voices (Acoustic)

This stripped down version of my rock song Voices started with me having to do an interview for the West FM Radio Podcast.

I was supposed to sing an acoustic song so I made this softer arrangement of an initially very rock oriented piece of music. Even though it is a one take-one mic type of situation, I thought it came out well and was worth releasing.

Different arrangements of the same song always fascinated me. I have very often made several  ones for each of my works. Time consuming but worth it. I find that with experience you feel right away what  will work for a specific piece of music but one might be surprised what a completely different approach to the song can do.


Stripping down a song like this has the advantage of putting the lyric forward. Less elements in the music allows people to focus more on the meaning.

I already spoke about what inspired me to write this song in my previous post Voices but to sum it up, it is about mental anxiety. It is the story of an inner dialogue between our sometimes tyrannical mind and ourselves. I imagined it as the mind talking during the verses, and the self responding to that talk during the song’s chorus, wishing it would go away. Mental distress is real. Mental torment is stressful. Mental anguish wants you down. Mental anxiety has to go.

As I previously mentioned , it’s just one take, singing into a microphone while playing guitar. Therefore it has  some raw emotion to it that is harder to channel when you do multiple takes.

I eventually added a few backing vocals here and there and additional lyrics during the bridge, and that’s it.

It is a different vibe, carrying the same words, the same story and here you can listen to both versions.


-Whiteval

 

 

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