Empty City Blues (vocal version)

iG.STUDiO

Genre: Jazz (vocal)

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Finally complete with vocals by Dar.

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Lyrics

Night, pavement dull with the roar, I, hear his footsteps no more, Lost, in the city of dreams, Nothing can be what it seems, And all that I care to notice, is an echo of his memory Following me… Soft, in the glow of the street, Moonlight, so haunting and sweet, Drunk with the nectar inside, Drowning my pain and my pride. And all that I care to notice, is an echo of his memory Following me… Now, I just swallow my tears, How, could I waste all these years? Why? In the distance a cry, Just, his unspoken goodbye, And all that I care to notice, is an echo of his memory Following me… [ lyrics by Dar ]

Song Stats

Hits: 2054
Comments: 16
Fans: 2
Plays: 233
Downloads: 99
Votes: 11
Uploaded: Jan 04, 2005 - 09:18:40 AM
Last Updated: Nov 27, 2005 - 07:38:43 AM Last Played: Oct 26, 2009 - 04:46:23 PM

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Hardware:

Yamaha "CustomZ" tenor saxophone YTSZ82, RadioShack 33-3004 dynamic microphone with XLR-1/4" line level transformer, iMic USB noicemaker, iMac G4 800Mhz (1GB RAM).

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Comments

Peter Greenstone	Peter Greenstone said 1782 days ago (January 4th, 2005)
	nice 'n jazzy Really nice piece. I particularly like the sax performance. It would be better if the quality of the vocal recording was better. It sounds too tinny and distorted. Check out my latest song called From Nothing

iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 1782 days ago (January 4th, 2005)
	nice 'n jazzy Thank you. The distortion of the vocals is intentional - it was put through a flanger and severely reverberated :{) --- iLYA Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

Mcboy	Mcboy said 1781 days ago (January 5th, 2005)
	nice touch.. by adding the vocals.....and great tenor sound...prez would be smiling.... Check out my latest song called Heros( aclarke/mcboy)

iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 1781 days ago (January 5th, 2005)
	nice touch.. :{) --- iLYA Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

TobinMueller	TobinMueller said 1781 days ago (January 5th, 2005)
	Vocals like a muted flugelhorn Vocals are a great idea. They seem maybe a little too soft for the overall feel, even tho the idea of the effects is cool. Like a muted flugelhorn. Nice tenor textures as always. cool, mesmerizing track. Check out my latest song called Forge A New Life (MJRF)

iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 1781 days ago (January 5th, 2005)
	Vocals like a muted flugelhorn Thank you :{) --- iLYA Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

Suzanne	Suzanne said 1780 days ago (January 6th, 2005)
	Sing out ...i which the vocals were louder. so silky and smooth. so sexy. like fairies making love after hours. very nice. Check out my latest song called Rock The Baby With Voodoo (w/Tobin)

iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 1780 days ago (January 6th, 2005)
	Sing out Thank you :{) You made Dar's day... As for the levels - I was going for more instrumental feel rather than solo-song performance, I , however, might reconsider and bump 'em up a bit... --- iLYA Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

TennesseeVic	TennesseeVic said 1780 days ago (January 6th, 2005)
	Note to self: saxes are flat Very nice track, unfortnately marred by some intonation problems. Either that sax is flat or the flute-y sound is sharp, but they sometimes hit the same note and, eh, it's not the same note. Very cool piece otherwise. Check out my latest song called Tecmo Superbowl 2009 w/ Dead End (MJRF 2004)

iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 1779 days ago (January 7th, 2005)
	Note to self: saxes are flat Thank you :{) --- iLYA Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

Bob Ancona	Bob Ancona said 1777 days ago (January 9th, 2005)
	Other Worldly Blues It's different. I like it. Hard to take the blues and really bring something new to it. But you did. This song has the kind of feeling that I don't even care if I understand the lyrics or not. If ya know what I mean. Check out my latest song called I Just Wanna Go Home

iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 1777 days ago (January 9th, 2005)
	Other Worldly Blues That was the plan :{) Thank you! --- iLYA Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

Uber

Uber said 1776 days ago (January 10th, 2005)

my 50 cents.....
Ok, my 2 cents.....really liked this piece, the sax is very there.......as is the chord progression against it IMHO...but I have to agree with the others on the vocals...it sounded like it punched in with a background hiss that was not the cymbal wash of the brushes....so I figure it was the effects......I like the quality of the effects but I want the story too.......maybe an overdub of another vocal track with some old fashioned reverb and a blend of the two so we get the Flugal and the sexy/sultry nuances too?

iG.STUDiO

iG.STUDiO said 1775 days ago (January 11th, 2005)

my 50 cents.....
Yeap. It's a flanger's hiss you hear. I want to let the track to sit for a while, so
I would forget what it sounds like, and then listen to it again, may be play
with the settings some more. I already bumped up the vocals level and
changed the flute to a syn (the file is at my main site:
www.gerasimenko.com), I might as well work on the vocals some more. Good
catch, thanks!

---
iLYA

Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

timothy devine	timothy devine said 866 days ago (July 9th, 2007)
	Nice I like the sound of this tune very much. I am in to the tone on that tenor. This song shuffled up on the random player on the home page. I love it. Sometimes i just open it up and listen like a radio. this was such a great surprise. thanx for putting it up. tim Check out my latest song called Mankind Needs a Change/WoodstockII

iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 828 days ago (August 16th, 2007)
	Thank you! :{) --- iLYA Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

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Name: Ilya Gerasimenko

Long story (waaay too long), and not very interesting. Just listen to the tunes. Some video (why not?): this is Dar (you can hear her on La Maladie, I Wonder How You Are, Empty City Blues and Nostalgic Bossa) and I forced to perform a capella (nob... [see more]

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