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Deer and diamonds

the deer play, in the aura of wind and diamond...

Nishidino mor poraney

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This is my cover of one of the hardest Robindro songeet uploaded first ever on the internet. I've always seen covers of songs that people upload on youtube and wondered- why do people have to burden the great site with their own covers, why don't they upload the originals that are still missing on the internet instead? I mean, do they really believe that someone's gonna listen to their songs, people really have that much time to spare? Of course sometimes their view numbers strike amazing scores, but that's very rare and also mostly followed by more elaborate efforts, like singing with the guitar or a piano, like serious stuff. But trying to entertain people with your mere voice in this age of instruments seemed stupid to me. Whenever I felt like recording a song, these disturbing issues kept bouncing in front and I just said- 'Nah!'.

But then I found this site- http://soundcloud.com/. It seemed to offer a great platform for striving artists and sharing tits and bits of everyone's own voice, so looked perfect for uploading my no-so-great half-accomplished amateurish recordings. Well the timing was perfect since I was thinking for a week now to make a cover of this Robindro songeet which I've been addicted to for like two weeks. Finally after two hours of struggle I could come up with recording decent enough to present to thousands of people around the world. So here it goes-

Nishidino mor poraney (cover) by dithihin

The song still doesn't sound as smooth as it should, of course, but still I'm happy to have finally being able to sing it with near-perfection. sing

I've followed the exact structure and style in which Subinoy Roy, the maestro, sings it. You can listen to it here (if you promise to not compare that is p), it's uploaded from my own account in youtube-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA910XaONYU&feature=share

Pan's labyrinth

Comments

scott cummingI_ArtMan Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:37:59 PM

it sounds very fine to me. happy

Fahima Al FarabiBornChimera Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:19:57 AM

Thanks scott, it means a lot to me, coming from you. smile

Bhaswati Mazumdersymphonied Friday, December 30, 2011 12:52:16 AM

I agree and disagree about soundcloud being better than youtube for uploading covers. While I too thought soundcloud is easier and more efficient for covers (you dont have to attach useless pictures to make it a video like you have to if you want to share through youtube), I dont agree with the concept of "burdening great sites like youtube". I dont expect anyone to listen to those covers if they dont want to. All these websites are primarily for sharing things nowadays. And none of them are so "great" that you can't share your own work. I've seen professional musicians upload their work in sites like soundcloud as well, so does that make that site "too great" to upload mine? I dont think so. I dont expect people to go looking for my covers there, however I do expect them to be easily accessible when I link them to my friends.

All that being said, I love you for singing this song so well. This is my 6th/7th time listening and I still love it.

Fahima Al FarabiBornChimera Friday, December 30, 2011 7:26:16 AM

What I said about youtube was just to express how I feel about uploading there, and that being said I don't expect everyone to concur with me. Youtube is a phenomenal site, a beehive for all kinds of music and the idea of uploading my own covers where people go to listen thousands of masterpieces kind of repels me.

Thank you for caring to comment on this. you know how I value your say in this kind of stuff. smile

Bhaswati Mazumdersymphonied Friday, December 30, 2011 9:21:07 AM

Originally posted by BornChimera:

Thank you for caring to comment on this.



শালি ফর্মালিটি ছাড়!
whistle

Fahima Al FarabiBornChimera Monday, January 2, 2012 12:52:24 PM

ফরমালিটি করে বলি নাই ত, খুশি হয়ে বলছি। তুই তো আর সব কিছুতে কমেন্ট করিস না, তাই। নে কলা খা banana এটাও খুশি হয়ে দিলাম। p

Bhaswati Mazumdersymphonied Monday, January 2, 2012 6:26:10 PM

happy

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