I think a tremendous virtue of a remix is when the remix makes the listener want to use the samples remixed. Your remix accomplishes that great virtue, as I’d not heard these lovely kthugha samples before, and I think they’re really good.

The spoken word track is very good, as well, and would be fun to remix.

The technical issue with the joins at the loops does need a workaround. I think the workaround I would have selected might have been the simplistic one of just using/pasting the sample over and over, with fade in and fade out, rather than bother with true loops.
I probably would have experimented with a little multi-track pitch shifting on some guitar lines, to vary the melody a bit, and I would have put amother guitar sample in the middle as a kind of break. But on the other hand, I might have done it just how you did it.

This is a great listen—you really highlight a mixter, and you create a great spoken track in your own right.

I sing your soul
But you write my song
Pretty words. If my guitars could speak I hope that these were their words.

A timeless and unique piece. beautiful in its simplicity and weirdness. i enjoyed listen to it. b.k.

This is pure raw beauty. I love how you put it together and some of the ‘flaws’ make it more real. You did a great job of portraying emotion to the listener.

E. this is just so incredibly beautiful on so many levels. How you used the samples. How you thought about the samples. Your words. Your intention. The completed mix. Ahhhh. Just so, so lovely.

technical issues can be always be overcome. The fact that you persist in your creative efforts be it mixing, writing or recording ensures your soul unfolds.

It will have its way with you, you know :-)

There’s an emotional warmth and intimacy you’ve been able to create here that belies the scientific coldness of the underlying bits and bytes. A genuine essesq and very touching work.

p.s. after your tweet last night I did some serious googling, and was quite flabbergasted to find that indeed GB doesn’t have a basic crossfade feature and people have to fake it on split tracks with fade ins and outs respectively. Quite surprising with an otherwise very competent DAW.

I think this is my favorite ccmixter secret-mixter event to date…it seems everybody has out done themselves…
Yours too is evocative, personal and quite appealing - excellent job M’dear….

this really moved me, particularly after reading your notes about the connection between musicians. it is extraordinary, especially here at ccmixter.

What beautiful and truthful intentions are contained in the words and music. An utterly enthralling piece, E. xxxx

E,

I apologize for the delay in listening to this - my last two days have been stress-ridden and sorrowful. As synchronicity would have it, you have put together a piece here which I really needed to hear. Your poetry is elegant and moving, and this track, while raw, is really beautiful. This is inspiring. Thank you so much.

K

I am guitarist and this text is very moving. warmly Jürgen