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this is an old hymn...a very familiar song. I fell in love with this song as a youngster, and that love was rekindled by charlie haydens's beautiful rendition on his cd ART OF THE SONG.
I have become friends with many folks since i've started posting on macjams, but none more special to me than mystified. Her music moved me immediately, and I sought her out on the chat room. I had never "chatted" with anyone before...we chatted a lot...and we've come to know each other pretty well. After I recorded my version of the hymn "amazing grace", i received an email with a sound file of mystified singing to my little prayer of a guitar piece...it was so pretty.
We discussed our mutual love for ambient music, my dedication to blues, and the love of music in general. We discussed at great length if it was possible to blend the passion of the blues with the expected serenity of ambient, new age music. I sent her a sound file of Wayfaring Stranger, just so she could hear Mr Hayden's remarkable rendition.
About a week later this bunch of chords shows up in my email...wow was it pretty. Mystified had worked with wayfaring stranger, and presented me a beautiful arrangement of piano and vocals.
I immediately went to work trying to figure out how to present the melody. What I thought would be a simple matter of picking the right tone and stating the melody, turned into days of experimenting...finally to hit a take early in the morning on like, the fourth day of playing. I sent the finished guitar back to mystified. She added a beautiful choral section at he end, and mixed everything. She sent it back to me, and i added the cymbal accents.
So this is our first official attempt at something like ambient blues. I guess we try and evoke feelings and resolve them...
part 1 is intended to represent a life passing in the flash of an eye, and the second section is the prayer.
I cannot thank mystified enough for the hard work she put into this song.
This song always makes me think of my folks... this is dedicated to them.
MYSTIFIED:
vox, piano, mixing and arrangement
ZITI: Guitars
I have become friends with many folks since i've started posting on macjams, but none more special to me than mystified. Her music moved me immediately, and I sought her out on the chat room. I had never "chatted" with anyone before...we chatted a lot...and we've come to know each other pretty well. After I recorded my version of the hymn "amazing grace", i received an email with a sound file of mystified singing to my little prayer of a guitar piece...it was so pretty.
We discussed our mutual love for ambient music, my dedication to blues, and the love of music in general. We discussed at great length if it was possible to blend the passion of the blues with the expected serenity of ambient, new age music. I sent her a sound file of Wayfaring Stranger, just so she could hear Mr Hayden's remarkable rendition.
About a week later this bunch of chords shows up in my email...wow was it pretty. Mystified had worked with wayfaring stranger, and presented me a beautiful arrangement of piano and vocals.
I immediately went to work trying to figure out how to present the melody. What I thought would be a simple matter of picking the right tone and stating the melody, turned into days of experimenting...finally to hit a take early in the morning on like, the fourth day of playing. I sent the finished guitar back to mystified. She added a beautiful choral section at he end, and mixed everything. She sent it back to me, and i added the cymbal accents.
So this is our first official attempt at something like ambient blues. I guess we try and evoke feelings and resolve them...
part 1 is intended to represent a life passing in the flash of an eye, and the second section is the prayer.
I cannot thank mystified enough for the hard work she put into this song.
This song always makes me think of my folks... this is dedicated to them.
MYSTIFIED:
vox, piano, mixing and arrangement
ZITI: Guitars
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Lyrics
i am a poor wayfaring stranger
wanderin thru this world of woe
yet there's no sickness, toil or danger
in that bright world to which i go
I'm goin home to see my mother
she said she'd meet me when i come
i'm only goin over jordan
i'm only goin over home
wanderin thru this world of woe
yet there's no sickness, toil or danger
in that bright world to which i go
I'm goin home to see my mother
she said she'd meet me when i come
i'm only goin over jordan
i'm only goin over home
Ed Hannifin
It is everything, to me, that a song should be. The lyrics
are clear, heartfelt, true in a deep, emotional way...the
melody perfectly articulates the feelings behind the
words...
So it's a good thing that you have nailed this song, you
two, or I would have to hunt you down and, I don't know,
embarrass you in public...pelt you with something
growing in my garage...which, since I just was out
preparing a run to the "transfer station", I am well
equipped to do...
The guitar work is great. It is, again, the distilled essence
of what I enjoy in electric guitar, so there we are. Great
tone, great emotion, great taste and the trademark ziti
restraint.
The track as a whole is big, ambient as all get out, and
enveloping. I'm getting to resent the number of
MacJammers who are producing these wrap-around mixes
when it's so hot that I don't want to put on my
headphones...
The Mysti vocals are also restrained, and
angelic...avoiding that thing I hate most in modern music,
the "show off" vocal track...
As Nigel Tufnel saieth, "It goes up to eleven..."
Ed