ReELab of a 'contemporary standard' (one of my favourite tracks).
ReELab is only a kind of personal workshop to improve my abilities as producer, musician and composer (applying jazz and harmony studies as well as the techniques I use on my DAW to produce music)
Jazz players always studied with standards to improve their skills.
I'd like to work with contemporary tracks I love as well.
Maybe that old standards (like 'Autumn Leaves', 'All The Things You Are', 'Tenderly'.. ) no longer belong to our culture .. or, anyway, we can use both.
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some rules I followed:
- try to reconstruct a similar, but instrumental version
- play the vocal line with an instrument
- not working on it too many hours
- play all by myself
- do something I've never done before
- use one or more new techniques, plug-ins .. (I used a new wurlitzer plug-in that my friend mick sent me yesterday!)
- play one solo in a jazz mood
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nothing has been sampled from the original version
cover of the track 'Tea Leaf Dancers' by Flying Lotus - from the 'Reset EP'
..and.. I know.. the magic Andreya Triana's voice was one of the best features of this track :)
listen to the original version here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW1NTN5vMyY
and check out the original Flying Lotus track, out on Warp Records!