Watching You (collab.w/ Iseae)

Jim Bouchard

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The song is a collaboration with Iseae. She came up with the vocal and I built a song around it using guitars and keys and a bunch of GB instruments and a Drums on Demand drum track. Iseae's lyrics have to do with two women sharing one man. I don't think it's all that comfortable for either. I tried to maintain the sense of unease in the music. There's 13 tracks. Let me know what you think. I have to thank Leila a lot for coming up with this originally and allowing me to more or less run with it.

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Lyrics

She walks along the path
you are seen taking
and she holds your hand
while you take her
from the orchard of her mind

I watched as you lay sleeping tonight
As you walked away from me

She walks like angels in the morning light
sheltering you
from heaven
from heaven

she is watching you
ah-uh
she is watching you

She walks along the path you are seen taking...
She is watching you....

Song Stats

Hits: 2399
Comments: 22
Fans: 7
Plays: 493
Downloads: 53
Votes: 14
Uploaded: Jan 19, 2005 - 12:20:00 PM
Last Updated: Apr 04, 2008 - 08:49:44 AM Last Played: Nov 19, 2009 - 08:21:58 AM

Song License

Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Song Actions

Hardware:

Kurzweil KME-61, Standard Strat, Harmony lap steel guitar, Peavey Delta blues amp, NT-1000, Behringer mixer, US-122, eMac

Software:

GB, Drums on Demand

Comments

bluemask	bluemask said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	Very interesting Great vocals and unsettling music. Very good composition! Check out my latest song called 10000 Miles

Jim Bouchard	Jim Bouchard said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	Very interesting Thanks a lot! Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

Peter Greenstone	Peter Greenstone said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	Really Good I love your haunting style. A little Twin Peaks in flavor. Everything sounds really good in the mix but, perhaps, it would be better if she sounded closer. Check out my latest song called From Nothing

Jim Bouchard	Jim Bouchard said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	Really Good I actually doubled her vocal track and boosted both of them to try and fatten it up some. I wanted to keep it sort of clean, though. There is a bit of reverb that might make them seem distant. I'll try something else on that. Thanks for listening and commenting! Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

koolpaw	koolpaw said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	kewl and mysterious! i wanted to vote 9-9-10-9 fo tjhis song :o Check out my latest song called Strong In The Rain -Amenimo Makezu

	said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	Awesome vocals very chilled and haunting and the guitar that Jim provided is outstanding just love those chord man hopefully you two will team up again. 9 8 9 9

Z293	Z293 said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	I don't know what Iseae gave you to work with but you did a great job building around her vocals, which I always love. Check out my latest song called The Fine Line

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 1770 days ago (January 19th, 2005)

I don't know what
Iseae had recorded the vocal track and a couple tracks of piano/string
comping and bass and a drum loop, but I ended up not using anything but
the vocal. The guitar chord changes I came up with along with her vocal
called for something else. I really like Iseae's voice too, and working on this
was a pleasure because I got to listen to her sing over and over and over!
Thanks for the comment!

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

Iseae	Iseae said 1770 days ago (January 20th, 2005)
	I don't know what D'aw you guys are making me blush Check out my latest song called Vickys Song

hacked_to_pieces	hacked_to_pieces said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	Wow I really enjoyed the downtempo feel and the vocals were just right. Very eternal and eriee at the same time. The guitar part was very cool I too thought the chord were pretty cool. The twin peaks reference was on the mark they used song like this all the time very cool guys. 8 8 8 9 Check out my latest song called blues shuffle

hacked_to_pieces	hacked_to_pieces said 1771 days ago (January 19th, 2005)
	Wow can't vote but i will come back later and vote once again really cool song --- My latest song http://www.macjams.com/filemgmt/jam.php?lid=6063 Check out my latest song called blues shuffle

chikoppi

chikoppi said 1770 days ago (January 19th, 2005)

Otherworldly
Really cool guitar textures! Zepplin-esque at times. Your work on that lap guitar adds just the right emotive character and the subtle synth brings it right on home. I was hoping you'd take more liberties with the middle-eight because you really whet my appetite for a dense exploration of the dual-guitar theme.

Iseae, super vocals! Sultry and contemplative. I'd love to hear them advance, recede, and intermingle with the guitar a little. Maybe with some background vocalizations?

Check out my latest song called Loop It or Lose It 9

Stun Nutz	Stun Nutz said 1770 days ago (January 20th, 2005)
	Really cool collab, guys! The music sounds like a dream sequence from a psychadelic western movie or something... I always love Iseae's singing, but the music here brings her down an intruiging new path. Great work! I can't vote right now, but if I could there would be high marks! Check out my latest song called Gossamer dissected

	said 1769 days ago (January 21st, 2005)
	It's swell and I look forward to hearing this in the next David Lynch movie. :)

aclarke	aclarke said 1769 days ago (January 21st, 2005)
	High notes... have amazing clarity. There is so much cool stuff going on musically in this piece. Very, very smooth! Nice prolonged fade at the end. Check out my latest song called Ballad of The Little Tiki

thetiler	thetiler said 1768 days ago (January 21st, 2005)
	Chris Isaak I was trying to think of his name and it finally came to me. There is a Chris Isaak sound, especially with the guitar. Even with the female voice there is that haunting feeling there. Nice job! Check out my latest song called The Bluebird Cafe (with two other guest)

Feter	Feter said 600 days ago (April 4th, 2008)
	Watching You this is a superb song ...the vocal is realy haunting ..very deep playin my friend ..great song and colab ..thnx alot for sharin ! Check out my latest song called A Night With Feter feat'(Roxylee sloparts crissew johnwhitehead and Yamin AL Yamani )

stooey	stooey said 598 days ago (April 6th, 2008)
	Great Job Very Haunting, which matches the lyrics perfectly. To me the lyrics are more like a stalker watching a couple. I think I may leave the light on tonight! Check out my latest song called Loop It Oldfieldlian

lavalamp	lavalamp said 585 days ago (April 19th, 2008)
	Going back some years Who is Iseae and is she still around? I'll have to check. Great job thanks for the tip on the forum. LL Check out my latest song called Googolplex Times Zero

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 552 days ago (May 22nd, 2008)

Iseae
She was somewhat active at MacJams long ago, in the early years, but she deleted most of her songs and I haven't had any contact with her for years. She is Canadian in origin and at the time we collaborated was living in Germany because her husband was in the service, having had been in Iraq on a couple tours. I haven't had any contact with Iseae for years, and I believe she and her husband have split up badly(postings on his website speak to that). She had a lot more songs on her page, but most of them have been deleted. We collaborated on 3 songs, one which is still on her page, "Vicky's Song", this song, and a song called "Memories". I wish we'd done more songs together as she was pretty easy to work with.

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

asconejar	asconejar said 538 days ago (June 5th, 2008)
	tsada I found this song searching "chris isaak" indeed there is a isaakish like spice in here, wicked game type of tempo. Nicely mixed. I love it. Blues, slow, with great vocals from Iseae. I tried searching her in the net, but alas, no more updates about her. She is really gifted girl. Check out my latest song called There Could Never Be Goodbye

psexnyc	psexnyc said 533 days ago (June 9th, 2008)
	Eww!! This is Wicked!! Delightfully Wicked!! Check out my latest song called C'Mon Get Ready LIVE (MJRF)

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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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