Name: It's Been A While by Comms
Duration: 2 min 52 s
Description: "It's Been A While" is a recomposition and rework of the song by Alev Lenz. I took the original a cappella melody and re-harmonized it for my felted Yamaha upright piano, Fender Rhodes, Prophet '08, and Juno-106.

Weeeeeelll well well... When this came on ... (and here this little beautiful section... ooofff) I was taken, we all were. So nice to have your track on this playlist too! Thank you for your dreamlike world and divine playing, I'm all in - On repeat... Love the image you picked too! xx

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1970 Fender Rhodes 73 Key Stage Piano with Felt Hammer Tips (Example 1)

"It's Been A While" is a recomposition and rework of the song by Alev Lenz. I took the original a cappella melody and re-harmonized it for my felted Yamaha upright piano, Fender Rhodes, Prophet '08, and Juno-106.

It's Been A While

'Fishermen' is a song by Alev Lenz from the album '3' originally released on SA Recordings.

Reworked and performed by Brueder Selke.
Recorded by Sebastian Selke and Daniel Selke at Klingenthal Studio, Potsdam.
Mixed and Mastered by Sebastian Selke at Klingenthal Studio, Potsdam.

This rework is part of the SA competition series - Recompose.

Alev Lenz - Fishermen (Brueder Selke Rework)

This is my Submission for the Alev Lenz Recomposing Contest from SA  Recordings. 

I wrote it, recorded, mixed and mastered it on my own. 

I chose the track "Laura" from the album, because to me it was the most beautiful and I had so many ideas for the recomposing challenge.

I played this on a grand piano in my music school and recorded it with my two Neumann KM184 and my JZ BT301. 
To all the soundengineers: I placed the Neumanns as a XY-Stereophony over the part of the piano where the highnotes strings overlap with the lownotes strings. Then I placed the JZ BT301 as a monomic in the middle of the piano pointing to the little hammers that create the piano sound.
To all composers: So all in all: everything I did was 1. take the original 2. take the melody 3. make the melody appear rhythmically random and 4. put harmony under it. 
Of course, there is more to it, but that's how it could feel to some.

Alev Lenz - Laura (Max Köhler Recomposition)

Recompose Winner - Nyokabi Kariuki

Nyokabi’s work is unforgettable. It is cold and wet. It represents water. Maybe the threat of the fishermen or the knowledge of the ocean creatures? It is not safe, it is a unique voice and sets the stage for a new interpretation of the music; a new medium it could live in, through Nyokabi, a new room she has opened and welcomes us all into. Dive in at the deep end, learn to swim again.

https://www.nkariuki.com/
https://sarecordings.com/recompose
https://sarecordings.com/release/139626-alev-lenz-alev-lenz-3

Recompose x Alev Lenz : Nyokabi Kariuki - Fishermen

Recompose Runner-Up - Jordan Summers

Effortlessly Jordan weaves in new sonic elements into his recomposition, he imagines and builds worlds within a song that was originally just a vocal melody. The melodies make you want to listen to the track over and over again. It is enveloping and enchanting.

www.jordansummersmusic.com
https://sarecordings.com/recompose
https://sarecordings.com/release/139626-alev-lenz-alev-lenz-3

Recompose x Alev Lenz : Jordan Summers - It's Been a While

Recompose Runner-Up - Amy Langley

Amy’s cello goes straight to the heart, it throws you into the depths of her sensuality. It is so hard to essentially re-play a song and still make it your own. Where she adds notes, harmonises, adds piano and where she doesn't, where it swells and where it goes silent is desperately delicate - supported by her incredible playing and profound respect towards the original song.

https://www.amylangley.com
sarecordings.com/recompose
https://sarecordings.com/release/139626-alev-lenz-alev-lenz-3

Recompose x Alev Lenz : Amy Langley - Cigarettes & Blow

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo

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