tuesday songs
performed by Kai Widmann
It's been my new year's resolution for 2011 to spend more time making/recording/mixing music. To force myself into doing so, I decided
to put up this page and post one song I recorded every tuesday.
After eight months I couldn't go on with this. Having a stressful job and a family leaves not enough room to post on a weekly basis.
But I will continue posting songs every once in a while. If you don't want to miss a song, you can follow me on
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It was supposed to be quite a simple recording session, one microphone, two guitars, a few songs recorded in one or two days, no overdubs, no fancy studio trickery. In the end I bought some recording gear and a mixing desk, we recorded for about three weeks, invited more friends to join us and got an album of 11 songs that got far better than we ever expected.
That’s what got me back to recording after my band "Hey Nonny Nonny" had split up in 1996. And I'm still at it, even though my time is quite limited. Two weeks ago I had my first gig in ages, playing with my friend and colleague Georg in a pub in Berlin. And we have plans to record some of the songs we played, so there will be new stuff on tuesday songs some time this year, but not too soon. In the meantime the archive will have to do.
Kai Widmann: vocals, piano / Philipp Weis: guitar / Handrin Fahmi: drums
recorded and mixed in January 2002
written by Keziah Jones
originally released on Keziah Jones - Blufunk Is A Fact (March 1992)
cover version originally released on Weis / Widmann - Phile y Kaili Frankfurt 2002 (2002)
Fischer-Z's "Red Skies Over Paradise" was the first album I encountered as such. Putting it on the turntable and listening to it from the first to the last note was a sacred act for me some time in the early eighties. And "Battalions Of Strangers" was the song I loved most. Recently I discovered that it's quite easy to play and unexpectedly I got a decent first take that I later upgraded with a hammond organ an a melodic guitar mimicking the indespensable bass line. So here it is.
By the way, my very first tuesday song Blue Always Finds Me was recently updated with a piano and a new mix as well.
Kai Widmann: vocals, guitar, hammond
recorded and mixed in May 2012
written by John Watts
originally released on Fischer-Z - Red Skies Over Paradise (March 1981)
Kai Widmann: vocals, guitar, blues harp, bass
recorded and mixed on 8th May 2012
written by Neil Young
originally released on Neil Young - Comes A Time (October 1978)
I've been busy during the last few months, and even if I wanted my professional and/or my personal life kept me from posting new songs every week. And I got tired of posting old stuff.
I surely won't find the time to post on a weekly basis again any time soon, but I hope that I can at least post a new recording every once in a while. The two songs today are not new, but there's no better time to post them than mid December, so here they are. These recordings were done with a colleague who played the piano. You might find "White Christmas" a bit strange. Well it is, it was meant as a joke. Fortunately it's so short, it's over in no time ;)
Kai Widmann: Vocals, Editing / Marcus Renner: Piano
recorded and mixed in December 2002
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - music by Ralph Blane, lyrics by Hugh Martin
White Christmas - music and lyrics by Irving Berlin
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - originally performed by Judy Garland in the musical "Meet Me in St. Louis" in 1944
White Christmas - originally performed by Bing Crosby on his NBC radio show "The Kraft Music Hall" on Christmas Day, 1941
I'm in the Valle Maggia area, a region I've known since I was born. So I feel quite at home. All the huge mountains, forests, meadows, trees, cottages, waterfalls are quite beautiful to look at. It's a wonderful world.
Kai Widmann: vocals, guitar
recorded in 2006
written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
originally released on Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (October 1968)
Comments
Mac - 14 October 2011, 04:44:24
Hey Kai!
It's a public note to ask you something:
Please do not drop this project!
It's indeed a wonderful thing to find some new song from time to time - even if it's not every week.
Kai - 14 October 2011, 07:11:33
Hey Mac,
I don't intend to drop it. I want to post every week and it makes me sad that I don't get to. It's just busy times. My private and professional life keep getting in the way.
But I now have two songs partially recorded. So there will be new songs some time in the future, hopefully soon. I will go on recording tonight, maybe I'll have a finished song by next tuesday.
As Madonna said: You'll see ;)
Comments
lauren - 27 March 2012, 12:17:49
This is cool!