A playlist with the covers I've made by myself or in different collaborations.

I do the covers as practice, both in recording and playing different instruments. Sometimes I follow the original and sometimes I just go with the flow....

Some good and some not so....

[the covers]

a retrospective playlist of songs from the last 5 years made by me.
A way for a new listener to get what I'm about and You clearly hear the development through the years.

Happy listen!

/nic

the Essentials

A Compilation of the Radio Show
Shaped By What We Love
by Olaf Stephenson

Shaped By What We Love

a compilation of the songs TexMex Shaman and I've made so far.
Started in 2021 and counting.

...so far

a collection of covers I like, from friends and musicians on SC

favorite covers

A song about a mans pride and joy to have his family. Happy Family!

Guitars, bass and synths handled by nic

music and lyrics: nic

Happy Family

a short but effective little song about winning and the importance of the concept of winning, not!

music: nic
lyrics: Blank/Meier
© Tbu Music, Datasound Ag

I Have Won

Extended version

This is a good time here.  I've had this idea and this song pretty well done for about a year now but until I started doing a few collaborations lately I couldn't find the right opportunity for it.   

This vocal nic @nic_nic_nic put over it is totally opposite, not even opposite, it's in an alternate timeline from where I saw it going, but when I heard it, I thought it fit in a way possibly too cool for me to understand.  

Lyrics for this one come from a public domain poem credited below:
https://poets.org/poem/afternoon-hill

Afternoon on a Hill
Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1892-1950



*Special shout out to my brothers in Natt Brus for loaning me this guy and also thanks for all the inspiring kick ass music you guys create.  Love all you guys & keep rockin!


bow 
Guitars, Music & Arrangement : TexMex Shaman
Vocals by Nic

lyrics : 
I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
    And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds
    With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
    And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
    Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
    And then start down!

Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!

bow - Collab with nic and TMS

a fog lightens mix of the song Torres Strait

Without drums and a different guitar mix than on the original version.

all instruments NIC and TEX MEX SHAMAN

Lyrics is lent from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

The original mix: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/torres-strait-nic-and-the-texmex-shaman

Torres Strait - the fog lightens mix

TexMex Shaman

TORRES STRAIT - the fog lightens mix [TexMex Shaman]

Always one of my favorites from the Stones.  When I had the chance to "learn" it I jumped at the chance to get my take on it out there.  Peace!

Cover Art is a photo of B. taken by B. in Vince's Cathedral of Junk in Austin .  Thanks Vince! Yours is a masterpiece!

Sympathy For The Devil R.Stones Cover

Small Town Boy (Bronski Beat Cover/Reimagined)

Kompoz Collaborative

Stefanie Kisamore - Vocal
Chris Branch - Bass
Mikael Lindh - Keys
Billy Bosco - Guitar
Chris Thomas - Drums
TSTstudio- Tom Hellsten  - Mix and Master


LICENSE NO.: 1500248705

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane Cover

Nic sent over this cool song and I added some things and here it is

check out our other cool collabs here...

https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/tms-and-nic

Loneliness in the Modern World -  [ w/ Nic ]

This is one of my cover to my favorite band. It's just for fun, there is no any goal with it.

GHOSTS AGAIN - DEPECHE MODE COVER

February Edition of **Shaped by what we love**
From psych folk to flipped out funk & jazz

Shaped by what we love

Shaped by what we love - radio show - Olaf S East & Rajinald Perrin - Feb18

March edition of the **Shaped by what we love** radio show from the Manor House freak scene....
From psyched out blues, folk & rock to flipped out funk & jazz

Shaped by what we love - radio show - Olaf S East & Rajinald Perrin - March18

January edition of the **Shaped by what we love** radio show from the Manor House freak scene....
From psyched out blues, folk & rock to flipped out funk & jazz

Shaped by what we love - Jan18

Shaped by what we love - radio show - Olaf S East & Rajinald Perrin - Jan18

April edition of the **Shaped by what we love** radio show. Alongside our selection of psyched out blues, folk, rock, funk & jazz, we have **Maxwell Pastor** from East London's **Diggers Dozen** playing a wicked set of psychedelic funk & jazz.....listen out for some crazy Middle Eastern nuggets

Shaped By What We Love - April18 - w/ Maxwell Pastor (Diggers Dozen)

May edition of the **Shaped by what we love** radio show from the Manor House.....psyched out jazz, folk, rock & funk

Shaped by what we love - radio show - Olaf S East & Rajinald Perrin - May18

An electro-rock cover of Indochine's l'aventurier

L'aventurier Indie Moon Indochine's cover

A freely translated version of Pink Floyds untouchable song Comfortably Numb. Its impossible to do it right so I just jammed along and picked some pieces of the song and shaked em up a bit to make it become something else.

[free download]

/nic

Original composer David Gilmour

Comfortably Dreaming Numb

In my cabin with just an nylon stringed acoustic guitar and just started my vacation. I felt a bit frustrated without any Marshall stack or my favorite axe. Thanks to the DAW I could mimic distorted guitars and the heavy bass. A short song to celebrate my newly started vacation.
Yeah!

/nic

You're a Woman

You're A Woman

When I released the other Blue Monday cover I listened to the original. Found out that I'm playing the chords wrong.
I had to do another with the right progression. 
So here it is with some extra falsetto singing too, just to please my worldwide fans who just love it when I'm doing the falsetto.
Rock on!
(all rights and all that belongs to New Order)

Blue Monday (cover)

Blue Monday [acoustic cover]

"Prom Dress"

Nic : vocals, acoustic guitar & string arrangement on the extended outro, final mix @nic_nic_nic
Mahan Mahan : music arrangement & production 
Cover art ; nic & Mahan Mahan

Originally written & recorded by Maia A.K.A. mxmtoon https://soundcloud.com/mxmtoon/prom-dress-1

Prom Dress (mahaNic)

a journey into the backwaters of mankind in its core of trying to be real.

All music and vocals - nic
Lyrics: Christina Rossetti, nic

used porn stars aligned

A Day of Days

A Day Of Days

mahaNic are:

nic @nic_nic_nic : vocals, lead cello, post production, being Felix Unger.

Mahan Mahan : instrumental track, string arrangement, production, final mix, being Oscar Madison.

cover art : nic (further augmented by Mahan Mahan) 

For those who spotted Elvis on the album cover, there's a reason for it. Elvis Presely was a huge Sex Pistols fan. After his death, it was revealed that Elvis not only had the entire Sex Pistols' albums and UK/USA single releases, but he also had in his private collection, custom made replicas of every bass guitar ever played onstage by Sid Vicious. Go ahead and fact check all you want, just don't step on my blue suede shoes. 

Anarki För Den Inåtvända Mockan (mahaNic)

A mahaNic cover of "So Ya Wanna Have Sex?"

Original track written and recorded by Marc Freak https://soundcloud.com/marcfreak
https://soundcloud.com/marcfreak/soya-wanna-have-sex

Nic https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic : Vocals, mixing, producing and mastering, also promoting World peace and unity thru music. 

Mahan Mahan : Instrumental track, in the midst of ending a five year feud  with a "Make America Great Again" Trump Supporting neighbor.

So Ya Wanna Have Sex?  mahaNic (Marc Freak cover)

I decided to come back to this community. I've missed You guys! Let's do some music again....

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