soundcloud/anautumnsunrise/your-wish/s-4UKAA Today is the last day I will be featuring Your Wish! The offer still stands- If we get up to 300 likes by Friday, I will release a free track! Thanks for all of your support! Please Like and Share! An Autumn Sunrise is BACK!!! This weeks feature song from the new album is Your Wish...Here are some of my thoughts on the song: I dont even know where to begin. I could write a novel about this song, but I doubt my rambling could hold everyones attention for 300 pages. I guess I will start with a surprising, but true statement: This song was actually not supposed to be on the album. I really wanted to be done with this song, since I already recorded it twice before, and it has been the most requested song at shows among people who know my original music. The first time it was recorded, it was for my first album, When Words Speak Louder Than Actions, and later on, it appeared on my acoustic album, Songs For A Lonely Night. On this album, it actually ended up replacing a song called Midnight Drive. Heres how it happened...When I was tracking for Tomorrow, Jimmy Reynolds, my producer and engineer really liked the song on my last album and asked me to record it again. I was very reluctant to do so and argued against it, but he ended up talking me into it. He feels that it may be a song that had potential to get radio play as well as other attention, and after the way it came out, I agree. I decided to kick Midnight Drive off the album, not only to make way for Your Wish, but I felt like it was just a mediocre song. I actually scrapped the song altogether, recycling the music and melody and adding new words and a new title...but that is another story for an album in the future. The first time I recorded Your Wish, it was during the Actions sessions in my basement with an 8 track recorder. I ran out of tracks and had to mix and bounce the instrumental tracks over to make way for the vocals. The end result was that I could not properly EQ all of the tracks, which was a real problem with the whole album. When Jimmy gave me the opportunity to record the song again for this album, we wanted to make it sound the best we could. The challenge was that I wanted it to sound more radio friendly, but also keep that raw garage sound. We ended up not going crazy with the vocal effects and I doubled all the vocals and threw in a few harmonies in the chorus. That being said, Jimmy ended up adding one computerized harmony on the second verse during a mix session to add extra flavor, and I really like it. If you are wondering where, its on the words, One that wont go out as long as you are near. The bridge is my favorite part of the song, because of the way the organ kicks in as the music gets soft. The organ was actually my good friend, Chris Hludziks idea. While I was recording the song for the first album, Chris suggested that I put in an organ to add a new texture to the sound. I was originally against the idea and fought him on it, eventually giving in, deciding to give it a try. It then became my favorite part of the song, so I kept it when I re-recorded it for Tomorrow.. When Chris and I listened to the new recording of the song for the first time, I remember him exclaiming, You kept the organ! See, I told you it was a good idea! And a good idea it was! I remember when writing the song, it just seemed to write itself. The words flowed from my pen and the chords just poured out of me onto my guitar. I wrote that song in the fastest time that I have ever written a song. It was probably because I was inspired to write it after a certain situation with a friend who I had developed feelings for. Unfortunately and fortunately, she did not feel the same way, and many of the songs on my first three albums (including this one) were inspired by her. This song is one of the most personal songs on the album. It is also the most literal. I use a great deal of symbolism in my songs, but this one mentions very specific events as well as people and other things that only one or two more people on this earth know about. It represents a piece of the person I used to be when I was 23 years old. When I listen to or play this song live, its like I am temporarily that person again and I feel all of the happinesses and sadnesses from that time in my life for that moment. It is an amazing thing, that music can have that kind of power over us...its a very supernatural art form! I hope you enjoy the song!
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:51:48 +0000
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