Thursday, June 30, 2016

"Beginning"

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Last night I listened to Colin Blunstone's Journey and noticed a small thing about "Beginning."  The choral background doubles the "surrounds you in the night" in the line "Oh, self-doubt surrounds you in the night."  The choral background surrounds Blunstone's lead vocal just like the self-doubt in the lyric.
I noticed a small thing about "Beginning" for my Collection Audit project.

"Beginning" is one of the songs that Blunstone re-recorded for The Ghost of You and Me, but instead of a choral backing, that version has a string section.  So - as far as this feature is concerned - the original is actually better because the string version doesn't have that vocal surrounding to mirror that lyric.