GROW (Acoustic Live Duet version) + video from the home studio
This is an unedited LIVE version of my original song GROW recorded in only two takes, one for the keyboard/voice and the second take to record a second harmony on top. I had previously shared here the studio version with the videoclip. This is much simpler version than the studio version that you can find in the official music video if you want to compare both the videoclip is also reattached at the end of the article though I had already shared the studio version. This is a much simpler approach but also a very honest one, bringing the song to its bare bones and essence. I sometimes do this alternate simpler acoustic versions for the VIP area of my website (http://yidneth.com) and as freebies. So it's now on Dsound (as free download) and Choon.
Listen on D-sound
► Listen on DSound
► Listen from source (IPFS)
Listen on Choon
Here is a video version with me and "mini-me". I have done this a few times... harmonizing to myself... plotting maybe an open mic this way but of another song. There was no edit but to entire takes. Thanks @hedac for adding "mini-me" in the corner of the video.
Studio version and official videoclip to compare it with:
And a reminder to the original STUDIO VERSION and videoclip here so you can compare them both. I think the studio version is a tone higher. I didn't even realize when I made the liver take.
I already covered this studio version in a very long post here:
I think the simple version and the final result have a slightly different vibe. Some people prefer simpler and some people prefer the polished version... still it's a good way to see how the "bare structure" of the song is "plotted" with no artifice but a microphone and a keyboard. Encouraged to record a few this way, maybe featuring two voices and two instruments only.
Lyrics
I spread my arms
to hail the sun
I feel its call
to reach out to the light
Then timeless songs
shape in my mouth
and spiral on...
as days turn long and bright
All in endless flow
waking from slumber
It´s a subtle glow
It´s a shift within
A rustling voice that seems to speak
it´s like magic sinking in
it drinks from rain unwinding leaves
Now it´s time to grow all green
The road less walked
will be my own
now that I´m sure
it leads me back to you
A door unlocked
into the unknown
and I became yours
I'm moss, I'm bark, I'm roots
But you can´t feel small
once you come to wonder
all those trees so tall
were once tiny seeds
that stood against the strongest winds
kept thriving shade or sheen
to grow all green
to grow all green
so just wait and let it grow
so just give it time to heal
As season flows
once more it all
turns bare and cold
but green
beats
in your heart
And remember...
All those trees so tall were once tiny seeds
that stood against the strongest winds
and kept thriving shade or sheen
so...
Note: I'm really excited to announce that I'm returning to perform live after a while later this month. I have been doing @dlive but I hadn't been on stage since November 2016 (Faeriecon, Baltimore) due to a period of resting... slowly and hopefully starting back to it.
- 22nd September celebrating the Autumn Equinnox in Orgi Forest (Navarre) outdoors concert in Nature
- 5th October in Barcelona. Costurero Real Gallery Opening.
Priscilla Hernandez
singer-songwriter & illustrator
http://yidneth.com
It is something beautiful to hear your voice, your production is impeccably divine.
"How much beauty has come together,
How beautiful, how beautiful a woman,
How beautiful in your face,
In your hands, your eyes ...
And when your voice resounded ...
How much beauty has come together. "
A hug, I join your chorus of fans.
That's a really sweet compliment
and beautiful poem
Thanks, I'm really glad you like grow
this is amazing!! , how beautiful and creative ! i'm happy that i meet you here , enjoyed watching your videoclip
resteemed
Love it, you beautiful fairy!
Aw thank you very much, so glad you liked it
This song is like a dream that I don't want to end. Beautiful!
which version did you like best? I'm rather curious and kind of was the experiment of sharing them together...
Thanks so much for the compliment :)
Hmm. I don't know if I can pick one over the other in an absolutist sense, as I can't stop listening to either. I suppose I can only answer your question in situational terms, as follows:
1. Studio version: I see this one as having more mass appeal - not in the sense of being more "accessible", but simply because it has bigger production values, and has a very majestic quality to it. Every time I listen to it, in my mind's eye I can imagine it being part of the soundtrack to a dramatic movie in which the lead character finds the wherewithal to move past some resounding personal loss. Perhaps it would be the closing song as the end credits roll, virtually guaranteeing a full house still in their seats as the lights come up. It could also be effectively deployed in this imaginary movie's trailer, somewhere at the half or two-thirds mark, seguing to some sense of a pivot from darkness to light in the character's journey. (Are you reading this, Hollywood?)
2. Live acoustic duet: This is the better one for intimate listening, and may have narrower appeal (say, campus or public radio rather than commercial radio). If you were looking to market yourself as a songwriter, this is the version that (I believe) would have more currency, as the more spartan arrangement would make it easier for other performers to imagine themselves inhabiting your work in a live setting. (I could have this all wrong, as I'm not in the music industry, at least not in any conventional sense.) Another way in which I connect to this version is as someone whose favorite album is "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye - after almost a lifetime of repeated listening, I'm still intrigued and amazed by the double-track lead vocals throughout. This version brought that album to mind for that reason. :)
I hope this answers your question (if circuitously).
PS: Thank you for writing and recording this wonderful composition, and then having the artistic courage to give the world your own reinterpretation. :)
Oh wow truly amazing
The song is so peaceful and lovely and then the mini me thang is off the chain FUNNY... you guys crack me up... how does @hedac do it? I love both versions, the video is like looking into the heart chakra of Earth, so incredibly peaceful.... have you heard of @treesisters.org ? I bet they would love this song for fundraising campaign? Their goal is to plant a million trees per day, we are at a million trees every three months. They are working toward healing the important bio diversity forests that have been desecrated in the Amazon so the corridors keep our planet systems working. Here is a link that might interest you
This is just awesome! Glad to meet you, Priscilla, here on Steemit :) keep doing what you do because it’s truly SPECIAL.
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This is another beautiful production @yidneth :-) You, your voice, the instruments and the living planet come together to encourage growth; you're a force of nature. Or a force for nature. Whichever; you're one of nature's natural talents <3 (and so is mini-you ;-))
Thanks to @hedac also; you always make sure he gets mentioned in your posts, but I have a feeling he doesn't get mentioned too much in the responses (I don't read all the responses, just a feeling I have); so thank you @hedac! :-)
This is beautiful, in so many different ways!
I love to see how your mini-me seems to respond and look up to the 'normal' you.
Almost as if she's your younger sister, who adores you.
Did you see the original version (with no mini-me) it's at the end of the post, that has more instruments and sounds, but somehow I liked to break the song into a simpler bare duet version. This is the second time I do a mini-me thing hahha It might as well be a little series :) though for convenience and live performances I should look for someone to duet along with hahaha.
I haven't seen that version, yet, but will check it out as soon as I have internet installed in my new place.
A mini me series sounds awesome but often convenience doesn't make things better, just easier... says I.
Now I think of it,I tend to overcomplicate things myself ( also in my creativity ) even though I keep telling myself that I should do the opposite. I guess it's just 'the nature of the beast' ( which reminds me of this awesome song):
Source
Hope you don't mind me linking that here. Let me know and I'll edit my comment ;>)