The Song That Never Was- Imogen Heap remix

Jim Bouchard

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Imogen Heap offered her vocal tracks up for free for remixing here as a benefit on twitter and I decided to take a crack at it. I wanted to do something a little different, using acoustic guitar and mandolin to give it a more contemporary folk feel. I play all the instruments here and did this sort of quick, but I'm pretty happy with it. I hope it's okay that I put it up here, but it's for a good cause and everyone should go and donate. It should show up on the twefestival site soon but here it is for a preview for MacJams.
Thanks estellie for pointing this out!

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Hits: 928
Comments: 19
Fans: 17
Plays: 110
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Uploaded: Feb 15, 2009 - 02:42:13 PM
Last Updated: Feb 15, 2009 - 02:42:13 PM Last Played: Oct 28, 2009 - 01:59:46 PM

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Michael Kelly Legacy Plus Mandolin, Taylor GA3 acoustic guitar, violin bass, Perception 200 and Rode NT1000 mics, MOTU Ultralite

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Feter	Feter said 267 days ago (February 15th, 2009)
	The Song That Never Was You are the man ..and I hope this will let many people turn their attention to the folk music and how wonderful it sound when it played by the hands of true musicians ...Hats off to you !!!! Check out my latest song called A Night With Feter feat'(Roxylee sloparts crissew johnwhitehead and Yamin AL Yamani )

Scott Carmichael	Scott Carmichael said 267 days ago (February 15th, 2009)
	yes Jim I'd be happy too.... you've captured magic here... this is what we're always shooting for, in my opinion... this is pure magic... i have no idea who this is... but this certainly shows your producer chops... this is so moving Check out my latest song called Good Morning

futzpucker	futzpucker said 267 days ago (February 15th, 2009)
	This song definitely is Beautiful job on this, Jim. As always, your sound is first rate, and your mix is flawless. Your choice of instrumentation suits the song and the vocals perfectly. Really well done, which is no surprise. This goes in the iPod - thank you. Check out my latest song called Just As It Is

Andy-bm	Andy-bm said 267 days ago (February 15th, 2009)
	Cool Version! Love the percussion work! //Andy

Jim Bouchard	Jim Bouchard said 267 days ago (February 15th, 2009)
	Thanks! The drums are EZ Drummer Nashville kit, using some edited Groove Monkee midi grooves, and then I lay in some Orchestra Timpani. I love working with EZ Drummer, and this is a"snares" off kit, which felt right to me. Thanks a lot for listening! Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 267 days ago (February 15th, 2009)
	smooth i like the smooth mood to this - it brings out Imogen's voice nicely. thanks It's so cool that Imogen did this. A very cool artist, she. Check out my latest song called Settle

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jiguma said 266 days ago (February 15th, 2009)

Works really well Jim
love the sounds you have come up with for this - man you're fast, I haven't even opened a logic file with Imogen's tracks yet!

What you've done is really outstanding. If I had to pick a nit, it would be that I'd like to hear Imogen's vocals quite a bit more in the mix - a personal preference only. The way you spread instruments around the sound stage is pretty near flawless in my 'phones!

Hmm, I'd better have a better listen to Imogen's tracks now I guess :)

Neil

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Jim Bouchard	Jim Bouchard said 266 days ago (February 16th, 2009)
	I forgot to say... That you should listen to this REALLY REALLY PAINFULLY LOUD. It sounds better that way! LOL! Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

dolby	dolby said 266 days ago (February 16th, 2009)
	Great Lovely voice - good song - great production I really love EZ Drums as well - I can't wait to get a higher spec computer because they suck my MacBook dry, but they sound great and are really flexible - Good stuff, Phil Check out my latest song called You Can't Win Them All

ktb	ktb said 266 days ago (February 16th, 2009)
	silk such a wonderful striking backdrop you've created. The drums in particular just light up the track in a warm and fuzzy way. Careful that the A&R suits don't kidnap you away from us once they hear this. brilliant stuff Jim Check out my latest song called off the deck (w/Z293)

Jim Bouchard	Jim Bouchard said 266 days ago (February 16th, 2009)
	I just thinking that. And then I went back to listen to the Imogen Heap CD that I have and I don't think she uses any acoustic instruments, and this being rife with things with strings, so I don't know if this is going to fit into the Heap oevre too well. Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

bud	bud said 266 days ago (February 16th, 2009)
	Excellent arrangement Jim and wonderful playing. I really like what you did with the percussion - and the bass has great movement. I can't imagine how you did this quickly - I'd be trying to figure out the bass line for a week. Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 265 days ago (February 17th, 2009)

thanks!
The bass part probably has a few mistakes in it, but I didn't do any of my usual tweaks to fix things, just played this live. I have this old no-name Hofner copy violin bass I got for 5 bucks at a yard sale on my birthday and it's my favorite bass ever. I slapped a set of flatwound strings on it and it's really mellow sounding and easy to play.

Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

dajama	dajama said 265 days ago (February 17th, 2009)
	Nice This is lovely. Great vocal performance, and the music is great - a terrific arrangement and the instruments are very nicely done. Everything complements everything else, adding up to a warm bath of a sound that just washes over the listener. Very cool. Kudos to you both. Nicely done. Peace. Check out my latest song called Across the Wire (MJRF)

Rocha Malhada	Rocha Malhada said 264 days ago (February 18th, 2009)
	Jim you nailed it Check out my latest song called Kanun Oud Rock (LIOLI9)

magnatone	magnatone said 264 days ago (February 18th, 2009)
	The Song That Never Was wow Jim - this is ALSO such a cool iteration of the IH tracks. Love the "folky" feel with your instrument choices, and you just are so good - I've never heard anything from you that wasn't top notch. No exception here! Thanks! Check out my latest song called Symphonic Smackdown

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 263 days ago (February 18th, 2009)

thanks!
I'm just doing what comes naturally. I actually think I could have gone in another direction, but this is sort of how I work these days. It's pretty folky, but I just love playing my mandolin these days and I've been trying to get around to recording more acoustic guitar music, and when this came along, it was a good opportunity to combine those things. Thanks for your kind words!

Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

Estella

Estella said 237 days ago (March 17th, 2009)

Oh Jim,
This is fantastic. I had this beautiful guitar part to add to my version of "The Song That Never Was," but I wasn't good enough to play it to do the production of her vocals justice...alas. I have a lot of growing to do before taking on a project like this, as you have done so brilliantly, but I'm happy just to play around with it.

And I loved hearing MacJams versions of it. In her latest video blog, Imogen talks about wanting to compile her favorite versions of it onto an EP (with the permission of the musicians in question).

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Macaudion

Macaudion said 211 days ago (April 12th, 2009)

I had no idea someone else did this
know one said anything... you didn't even toot your own horn, Jim! Well..., I would have restrained as well. - It looks like you did yours weeks before I did mine... So this means that possibly, I'm not the one inviting folks to the IH party... Okay!... well then...

Fat, warm, thick/dense, but not crowded and plenty sweet enough... - these are the words that come to mind while listening. Beautiful work, Jim! You know, sir, before you nominated me the king of dissonance the other day on my song page, I had you as president of of the "D" club. Clearly, nothing of the sort screams as being true here, though. And now I'm wondering why I had you pegged as such. Maybe it was some of your earlier stuff or, maybe it just happened to be the tunes that I choose to listen to at the time. Or maybe..., just maybe these words will become a part of "Ehibit A" in being another well documented example of the pureness of my insanity...

Thanks Jim!

Off to riffle through what I believe to be is, "your world of dissonance" because, ya know....

ps So, have there been other takes of Miss Heap's, "song that apparently was before I came along"? Guess I do a search

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Name: Jim Bouchard

I have been playing music a long time. When I was growing up my brothers had a band called the Regal Tones which was quite popular in our little town in upstate New York State. They got bitten by the music bug and later went on to found the p... [see more]

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