so you took your chance on a Sellaband artist :-) I just hope they don’t kick up a fuss with their publishing rights, because this is really beautiful. Having just your nice piano track around Ms. M’s wonderful vocal track really highlights her abilities.

Really nice work!

p.s. there wouldn’t be a midi track of your playing available somewhere?

You know I risked my ear infection getting worse by listening to this track on headphones; but it was worth it. :)

Very nice change of pace for you. Bold move to just keep the instrumentation to piano only, and it paid off nicely.

The sound of the piano is outstanding - really nice sound, and I like how your performance is restrained to not overpower the vocals.

Thanks for sharing this one. Very enjoyable.

I like your playing better than her performance with your piano if you understand that.

Its one of those arrangements where you have made a spectacular piano piece fit to an unlikely vocal.

Some nice chords early on that gave it real shape.

Maybe you to get her to re record it and calm down here and there.

Top work sir :-)

I agree with LS - your piano composition is super-fine. An unexpected mix of vocals and backing, but really very pleasing and the timing of vox phrasing with playing seems perfect. enjoyed it.

Really nice Joe! I am seriously enjoying the latest run of mixes that are going for simpler arrangements with less stuff piled into the mix. I love complexity but for emotional heft sometimes a lighter touch is what gets the job done. This mix is no exception.

More and more people here are convincing me that it’s time to go back for more piano lessons :-).

Thanks for this one.

I’ve got to agree with LS- your tasteful playing sounds wonderful against the melody, but it unfortunately emphasizes the overwrought vibrato/breathiness of the pella; as skillful as many vocalists can be, sometimes it seems they succumb to the “whitney/mariah” school of too much dramatization, due to being determined to stand out in an audition…

Wow !!!
This is truly magic for my ears Joe!
I don’t want to spoil it with words just magical!!!

This is one hell of a vocal to wrap a piano around so 10/10 for getting it to sound so good

The Joe..the Romantic pianist..Really nice work, beautiful piano…Carey or not Carey, even if this kind of voice could seem sometimes too perfect, she doesn’t leave me indifferent…

Wow Mr Jo—very nice piano. you did let the vocal take center stage (of course you should) but I did find myself enjoying the piano more the vocals, but in saying that the track as a whole is very very well done. Excellent work.

You are my man TheJoe - Your Piano put tears in my eyes - what a feeling - so nice - I even forgot to listen to the vocals which I did not really like anyway (too much - not really soulful) and fully concentrated on your playing - subtile, precious - just great. Hey my friend I will definitely need a midi file of this piece of art - I#d like to do a remix adding my ingrediences to your Piano - (just in case you would let me ?)
Congratulations
You have really got it !!!!

that’s a pretty good job you have done there. I would work out more different voice details, i noticed sometimes it cuts abruptly etc.. but overall its a nice job, i tried to do a remix over that vocal track, but i couldnt find anything suitable for me, so you did really nice.

I love the piano, but it’s taking me a fair bit of getting used to the way you’ve upped the vox by however many notes, and the fact it’s all out of time with those vox… in some parts it works really well, and is magical, while in others it seems very strange…. like sticking a square (110bpm) into a round (80bpm) hole.

Maybe I`m just too used to hearing the original (www.mandyleigh.com).

Would you be able to send us the piano track as an mp3 on it’s own, because I think Mandyleigh could write an entirely new song with that :) . Aaah, I see the next one I`m listening to is the piano on it’s own… cool :) Do you mind if Mandyleigh plays around with it? It really is beautiful.

On the Sellaband thing, they are extremely open to everything the artist wants to do. There are very few (if any) restrictions, as they are very artst-centric. She chose who to record with, what songs to record, the album cover and booklet artwork, to have vox available as CC (as they are also on the limited edition cd) etc etc. So with Mandyleigh there is no problem to play with these vox and do whatever you want, as long as if anyone made any money, it’s shared fairly.

btw the album was recorded live in the studio, with NO editing/cheating/auto-tuning. What you hear is what was done on the day in 1 - 3 takes (Alive was one take, as was Sunny New Day etc etc). No chopping up a hundred takes to find the best syllable and then auto-tuning and whatever else normally goes on. Mandyleigh’s voice is warts and all on that album and in these vox from that album.

If anyone wants any other vox from the other songs, just say so and she’ll get hold of them from the producer.

My comment wont be different from others under this track, really good job During listening I just can’t stop imagining some woman on a stage singing in front of a pianist.

Joe, this is world class. I’ve spent some time (well overdue) listening to your uploads and I’m blown away.
Love the chord progs, simple yet so effective. Must do something with this. Glad you uploaded the midi for us geeks. Watch this space.
Scomber