that electric piano … the cymbals … the chimes … the wow guitar …the overall production sensibilities …

Don’t know how else to say it.

I’m transported back to 1978 and I’m listening on headphones to my parent’s old zenith turntable.

This is AWESOME, AWESOME, sir!!

uuuuuhh — sweet!

I’m just wondering, if the drumming was a bit less hectic on some of the fills. Too many long one’s in too quick succession (for my ears). From about 1:30, it seems like there’s a bit of lead drumming. :-) You might want to consider having very few long fills, and have the drum fills spaced apart a bit further in general, and maybe revisit, which fills are in which spots.

Lovely remix, though — love the ePiano and especially the guitar!

Great free form rambling jazz feel. Beautiful production. A lot’s been said already but truly fantastic sound. And like many I would say the restraint is as important an ingredient as the actual stuff that’s laid down here.

Excellent sound, I think the chord pattern in the intro is really nice ( sting Fragilish )

But those go into the three chords with the vocals and dont come back. Which is a shame.

Agree with spinmeister a bit on the drums, it would have been nice to have a simple straight pattern as the flow keeps getting disturbed.

But i can tell you have a lot of skill. What Guitar are you playing on here. It sounds like an Ibanez/or a 335.

Hey, No. 3 finally with a reasonable length! Congratulations not only on this point ;-)

Lovely and tasty arrangement, indeed some “just the two of us” mood on the more melancholic site which is not bad!

As for the drums: Drummers just love to play that way sometimes. I don´t know who had played or programmed that groove and fills
on your track. I can live with that drum arrangement, but I can imagine it too with a more straight groove.

Really cool song, very good. But it’s a pity that this song is recorded with to high level, which is clipping. Please do it with lower level. This song must be done with nonclipping level.

Again, i love this song.

A nice, laid back, late-night atmosphere.

Beautiful

I love the minimal style. I really showcases the vocals beautifully.

Wonderful.

n9

I like the smooth way the intro brings us into the song. It really does have a chill-out feel. The vocal works well into the mix.

I like the way that the remix fits together so nicely. I like the way that all the parts work well together, without any element having to carry all the weight of the mix. I like the little keyboard sounds. This mix really works very well. It’s got a 70s pop/r&b vibe going that I find very appealing. It’s a good accompaniment to the Calendargirl vocal. I like that although there are a lot of elements here, the feel is not cluttered at all.
Very nice job.

Wow….

Outstanding…out…effing…standing.

Amazing work good sir. I commend you. You could not have improved on this at all.

Yea there TSOL, ol pal. I like tha idea of takin it on back to the seventies. And derned ifn they didn’t actually play too busy back then too often and like this here kinda loosey-goosey. My take is that ifn you was tryin to really capture that feel ya shoulda analoged/tubed up ol calendargal’s vocals quite a bit more. They’s just too clean an purty. But a beautiful idea there, ol pal.

yea, there are times where things go a little over the top (it’s all a matter of taste but another set of ears on this could have straightened that out). Overall though a great treatment.

they say it all, really good!!

what can i say? let me express my feelings in thumbs ups.

Love it!

As a fan of a more soulful, melodic sound I was hooked from the extensive and ornate sounding introduction to the record.

Perhaps this is just me, but at about :45 into the song I would’ve actually started with a softer drum with less of a hard snare and more of a rimshot and had a fill transfer into the full drumline of the song.

The mixture of guitars that come in towards the middle of the song all compliment each other well and end up adding a more layered, complete feel to the song. The electric piano/soft jazz organ is a nice compliment to the instrumental aspect of the song.

What impresses me most is the mix of live instruments and how the music so perfectly matches the tone and feel of the vocal. It does have a very “chillout” feel to it, quite melancholy in sound but certainly not a dark song…

A truly beautiful (re)mix…

so much going on in this all the way through, great interaction of each instrument with the vocal. The interplay of each element completes this mix

Reminds me of a downbeat Steely Dan song. I really like the electric piano. Nice arrangement.

This is a good track..and not to steer attention away from it..but the comments on the drums bring up a basic pitfall of working with pella tracks..in a studio with live recording utilizing good musicians who are experienced in the form, there’s a response in intensity in back of the singer (and the singer responds in kind if she/he is any good), because the musicians are backing up the vocalist..if a vocal track is more or less static (and by this I mean “pre recorded”), then any increase of activity in the instrumentation is brought out in the track, and often seems to pull attention away from the vocal. That’s what I am hearing when the “drummer” starts to get busy in this track. Interestingly, it’s also what makes things innerestin’, but due to the above mentioned form and restriction, IE using a pella as the basis for the track, it is also what distracts.

sorry..it’s just a sideline to a really good sounding track, and the little video of Xmas and Paris that I found it on this morning.

Whow, if I didn’t know better, I’d say this was the original song!

i like it. nice and chill =) putting it on my “Best of CCMixter” playlist.