Victorious Combinations

Well, Isabelle and I have been self isolating for the past month as most of the world seems to have been, and to keep ourselves feeling good we've maintained our rehearsals and writing sessions. In the course of having a month to ourselves I figured I should attempt to tune up the old Baldwin upright piano that I inherited from dearly missed friend Todd Simko many years ago. As I went about tuning the piano it occurred to me that we should revisit some of our early material again. This song, Embrace , was a favorite of ours from the debut Combine the Victorious album The World Over . The album version, which came out in 2007, is a much bigger production with a full band accompaniment and a rather epic crescendo at the peak of the song. We opted for a simpler and more direct approach with this video, something that could be pulled off with only a single piano and our vocals. Last night we set up a camera, a microphone and a light and tried our hand at this song again. It took us a...

Isabelle and I were rehearsing in the living room yesterday and decided to record our version of Glasgow acoustically.  With the beautiful summer sun shining in the background we ran through our song with an more intimate version  than the Crumbling Hearts recording. It's interesting to translate our songs from full on productions to something so stripped back.  Makes a challenge for my limited guitar playing but really helps bring focus to the singing! Have a look.

17 May 2008 Embrace (acoustic version) Hi y'all, Isabelle reckoned we should record an acoustic version of Embrace while it was still hot in our heads. We played this quite a few times while we were over in England and got a bit of a vibe on it, and she thought it would be fun to capture it while it was still fresh. Perhaps you'll agree. Cheers and happy weekend to you all. Mark & Isabelle