Mosquito Coast - Call My Name

An intimate acoustic cover of The Scientist by Coldplay. I wanted to strip this song back and let the lyrics sit right at the front; just voice and piano in a live, one take style performance.

The artwork shows a scientist in his lab at night; wearing RayBats as he studies a heart glowing under glass with the full moon behind him. It is a small nod to the song’s pull between logic and feeling; science and the heart; and the way music cuts through all the questions.

Recorded late at night on my baby grand as part of the Rita Road Sessions in London; keeping the dynamics soft; natural and emotional. I tried to stay close to the heart of the original while still letting my own phrasing and timing come through.

If you are searching for Coldplay covers; The Scientist cover; acoustic piano versions or stripped back singer songwriter sessions; I hope this gives you a fresh but familiar take on a modern classic.

Listen to more of my music and collaborations here:
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Rita Road Sessions
Music from the heart of London.

The Scientist – Coldplay (Acoustic Cover by olliray)

I was running round drinking,  head in the clouds hardly thinking,  got drunk and got high, I didn't wanna live i wanted to die,  
Life can be so cruel to be kind, I was losing myself, I was losing my mind
Often love is so real, it can blind the way we see, I was losing the best parts of me,
When I lost the love of my life, I tried to had to live  I asked the holy heaven for more time to forgive, 
And I found forgive in the ways I love, forgive in my pain , I started to live again, 
I found forgive in a song found where I truly belong,  and there here still  loving you,
Some loves just flow on through, time and place,  space of forever, 
I'll be here loving you wherever you are i wanna let you know,  love never dies it's just fast falling or it's slow,
But I'm not going to let you go , heaven or hell it's the most of my days, to love you forever anyways 

to live again by nardine sanderson.wav

For Megan.

Better medicate
Unfamiliar ground to me
Leave it by the back door
I don't have time for this

I tried to reach you, total waste of time
I tried to read you, total waste of time

It's a long way from here
Paths that reach out it in all directions

Wonder if you'll take it
When the branch is dry?
You've given up the right to
Be around for this

I tried to reach you, total waste of time
I tried to read you, total waste of time

It's a long way from here
Paths that reach out it in all directions

It's a long way home (no remedy in sight)

leave it by the back door

Afterglow

Not The Girl You Think You Are

Tracked and engineered by Nick Ireland and Calum McLaughlin.
Mixed and produced by Chad Blondel.
Mastered by Don Bartley.

Drift

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Lyrical Stoka- Sticky Fingers Ft. Mute Mc

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