Originally Posted By: Scott C
Very cool to write a song from your mothers poem. That song will live in your heart forever. Excellent vocal and backtrack. I can only how difficult it was to translate the song in two languages. Both sounded excellent. The piano was a nice touch. Well done Hans


Hi Scott, thanks for your kind words. I used Google translate a lot of times for the translations. But there is a danger in doing that. In many cases the translations were 'strange'. But still I learn how to handle that more and more.

Originally Posted By: ROG
Hi Hans,
Beautifully atmospheric.
It didn't seem to matter that it was sung in what is (for me) a foreign language - the
arrangement and the way it was performed were enough in themselves.
Loved the whole thing, but especially the break-down in the bridge - the piano was perfect.

ROG.


Hi ROG, that was a nice way of saying. I heard it some more times that if you can't understand the language you listen more intensely to the song as a whole. I regognize that too. Not with English, but Italian or Russian, like that. And you are right, you listen more to the melody. Beside that, I also liked that piano in the break. I tried to make it louder and heavier, but discovcered that was not a right thing to do...

Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
What a wonderful experience and tribute to your late mother.
Standouts for us were the lyric, vocal, fretless bass and piano.
Listening in Dutch was interesting and it really does allow you
to focus on the melody. But we also read the nice lyric.

Well done!
J&B


Hey Janice and Bud, thanks very much for listening to a Dutch song! I sometimes wished my mother could see/read your comments on this song. I think her smile would be as broad as..., as can be!
I found out it wasn't so easy to translate a poem. Google doesn't like poetic words and turn them into 'cold' businesslike sentences.
On the other hand, what my mother wrote was what I experienced a few years back. And I believe a lot of us did. But that makes it recognizable.


Originally Posted By: Ezekiel's Storm
This is really good!!! And I, too, like that you sang this in Dutch.
Touching poem your mother wrote. The second verse really spoke to me.
Instrumentation suits the lyrics and melody perfectly. Very good vocal performance.
I can think of no better way for a son to honor his mother. Well done!


Hi Ezekiel, it's very nice how you expressed yourself here. I liked it very much! It helps telling me I can sing in Dutch and you listen better when I do so! As I already wrote above, I would like to hear my mom tells me she liked the song

A nice day,
Hans

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