This is an unedited LIVE version of my original song GROW recorded in only two takes, one for the keyboard/voice and the second take to record a second harmony on top. I had previously shared here the studio version with the videoclip. This is much simpler version than the studio version that you can find in the official music video if you want to compare both the videoclip is also reattached at the end of the article though I had already shared the studio version. This is a much simpler approach but also a very honest one, bringing the song to its bare bones and essence. I sometimes do this alternate simpler acoustic versions for the VIP area of my website (http://yidneth.com) and as freebies. So it's now on Dsound (as free download) and Choon.
Listen on D-sound
► Listen on DSound
► Listen from source (IPFS)
Listen on Choon
Here is a video version with me and "mini-me". I have done this a few times... harmonizing to myself... plotting maybe an open mic this way but of another song. There was no edit but to entire takes. Thanks for adding "mini-me" in the corner of the video.
Studio version and official videoclip to compare it with:
And a reminder to the original STUDIO VERSION and videoclip here so you can compare them both. I think the studio version is a tone higher. I didn't even realize when I made the liver take.
I already covered this studio version in a very long post here:
I think the simple version and the final result have a slightly different vibe. Some people prefer simpler and some people prefer the polished version... still it's a good way to see how the "bare structure" of the song is "plotted" with no artifice but a microphone and a keyboard. Encouraged to record a few this way, maybe featuring two voices and two instruments only.
Lyrics
I spread my arms
to hail the sun
I feel its call
to reach out to the light
Then timeless songs
shape in my mouth
and spiral on...
as days turn long and bright
All in endless flow
waking from slumber
It´s a subtle glow
It´s a shift within
A rustling voice that seems to speak
it´s like magic sinking in
it drinks from rain unwinding leaves
Now it´s time to grow all green
The road less walked
will be my own
now that I´m sure
it leads me back to you
A door unlocked
into the unknown
and I became yours
I'm moss, I'm bark, I'm roots
But you can´t feel small
once you come to wonder
all those trees so tall
were once tiny seeds
that stood against the strongest winds
kept thriving shade or sheen
to grow all green
to grow all green
so just wait and let it grow
so just give it time to heal
As season flows
once more it all
turns bare and cold
but green
beats
in your heart
And remember...
All those trees so tall were once tiny seeds
that stood against the strongest winds
and kept thriving shade or sheen
so...
Note: I'm really excited to announce that I'm returning to perform live after a while later this month. I have been doing but I hadn't been on stage since November 2016 (Faeriecon, Baltimore) due to a period of resting... slowly and hopefully starting back to it.
- 22nd September celebrating the Autumn Equinnox in Orgi Forest (Navarre) outdoors concert in Nature
- 5th October in Barcelona. Costurero Real Gallery Opening.
Priscilla Hernandez
singer-songwriter & illustrator
http://yidneth.com