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Hello, everybody

This is my original Christmas song.
A few years ago, our music circle held the recording session with the amateur orchestra circle of the university I had graduated from.
6 members came there. (1st violin x 2, 2nd violin x 2, viola x 1, cello x 1)
Now I would like to introduce it to you.
Comments encouraged.
Have at it.

Best Regards.

Shigeki Adachi

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https://soundcloud.com/animarorecords/lovers_xmas-eve

Title: 聖夜(イヴ)の恋人たち (Translation: Young Lovers on Christmas Eve)
Vocal: TAKAKO (our local jazz vocalist)
Accompanied with baroque ensemble and rhythm section

Style is ST_ELMO.STY
Piano(1) assigned to Harpsichord played with Kontakt
Fretless Bass (36) assigned to Fretles Bass played with Kontakt
MIDI Drums played with Groove Agent
Baroque ensemble scored by me
Oboe played with Miroslav Philharmonik
4 part strings played by the amateur orchestra
(overdubbed with Miroslav Philharmonik slightly)

Summary of lyrics:

Rushed by the snow fall
We are hurrying on the way to the station

Many illuminated trees in the sapphire sky
There are angel wings white and white on your shoulder

How sweet our young love is
We are groping for our dreams awkwardly

You love me tenderly and make me so happy
Please heal me more and don’t let me feel painful
You are always so close to me
But why do I always feel so alone?

I’ll say good night to you because I can see you again tomorrow
Please hold my hands to keep them from freezing.

I want to tell you my shivering feeling
Becoming stardust and flying in the wind

When I quietly stop and look up the stars on my way home
A clean bell sounds on holy night

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Another beautiful song. Excellent vocal


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Fantastic production, gorgeous strings and a beautiful vocal.
In fact it is all perfect. This could easily be from a film.

Great work,
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Originally Posted By: Scottt709
Another beautiful song. Excellent vocal


We completely agree with Scott.

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Shigeki Adachi,

Beautiful! The strings really move. The vocal is so very nice.

A terrific listen.

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I always love listening to your stuff Shigeki!! It soars with a touch of melancholy. Strings are beautiful and melody is so moving. Difficult to sing for sure. BEAUTIFUL!!! Take care. Greg

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Hello, Scott, Jez, Rob & Anne-Marie, floyd and Greg

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your continuous supports and your kind comments every time.
I am so glad to hear you enjoyed TAKAKO's vocal and my string arrangement.
I have loved Christmas season very much from my childhood.

Greg,
Difficult to sing for sure. Yes, you are right.
I very much appreciate TAKAKO for singing this song.
Singer first.

Thanks again to all and merry christmas to you from Japan.

Shigeki Adachi

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Beautiful. A superb piece of music - lovely vocal.
Merry Christmas from Australia.

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Hello, Peter

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your continuous supports and your kind comments every time.
I am so glad to hear you enjoyed TAKAKO's vocal.
In December, Christmas songs are running throughout town in Japan as well.

Merry Christmas to you from Japan.

Shigeki Adachi

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Jez has it right, could be a French film.

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Shigeki,

This is wonderful! Such a sophisticated melody and your string arrangement really adds texture behind the vocals- most enjoyable.

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Shigeki, this production is wonderful and mesmerizing! a lot of musical talent is on display here. This was very good! Thanks, Torrey

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Very pretty, Shigeki. Nicely done!

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Very nice and melodic.
Good for Christmas feeling.

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Lovely song and a very strong vocal range. Well produced and I also think this could have been from a film. Nice orchestration.

Cheers.
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Hello, Marty, Robert, Curt, Torrey, Sergio and Mike

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your kind comments.
I am so glad to hear you enjoyed TAKAKO's vocal and my arrangement.
I have loved Christmas songs very much from my childhood.

Marty and Mike,
I have loved French music, especially Michel Legrand since when I was young.
I was strongly influenced by them.

Thanks again to all and merry christmas to you from Japan.

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Hi, Shigeki again a nice song you arranged with a wonderfull singer. Beautifull strings as usual.
Thanks from the Netherlands


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Excellent....and the strings work so well with the fine vocal. They are a bit more complex
than I expected (before listening) but they weave a wonderful texture for the vocalist and
the entire song. Very nice.

We always enjoy reading about how you put your productions together. You are a master
of this and as so many mention your songs should be in film.

We enjoyed it!

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Greetings AnimaroRecords! Excellent work on this! I really enjoy the string lines and the vocals! Keep it up! smile


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Very beautiful. I enjoyed this immensely.

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