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Hello, everybody

I have never posted Bossa Nova Tune once in this forum, so I would like to post such a tune this time.

Title: Precious
Vocal: Natsuki Yoshikawa, our local female jazz vocalist

Link:
https://soundcloud.com/animarorecords/precious

Style is !BYRDQRT.STY (MIDI)
Acoustic Bass (33) assigned to Acoustic Bass,
Nylon Guitar (25) assigned to Nylon Guitar,
Style is BOSANUVO.STY (MIDI)
Slow String (50) assigned to Strings,
MIDI Drums assigned to Jazz Brushes Kit & GM Percussion,
All instruments played with EastWest Goliath.

Additional Piano played by Miya Nakajima, our local female jazz pianist.

Summary of lyrics

Half-drunk tea
Half-read magazine
Knocking on the glass window
The sound of rain becomes strong

Just a little more
Please stay here
I cannot say obediently even such words

My heart has blamed you for a long time
But I will forget the sorrow if I could see you

People go around the streets with umbrellas
Under the rain clouds spread all over the sky
Which are sometimes broken

If only one real thing can be found
I will not mind losing everything

Time flows to the night as it is
Also tomorrow it must be a common day
But if I could endure it
This love surely will be forever
Shigeki Adachi,

A beautiful song.

Nice job with the MIDI tracks. Well mixed.

The vocal by Natsuki Yoshikawa is delightful. The additional piano from Miya Nakajima is very nice.


You do Bossa Nova as well as everything else you do.

floyd
Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Shigeki Adachi,

A beautiful song.

Nice job with the MIDI tracks. Well mixed.

The vocal by Natsuki Yoshikawa is delightful. The additional piano from Miya Nakajima is very nice.


You do Bossa Nova as well as everything else you do.

floyd
I agree with floyd. Great mix. Very well done. Tom
Shigeki,

Smooth and lovely. Natsuki`s vocal is a warm, expressive delight.
Your MIDI instruments sound great - as we`ve come to expect from you.
Very enjoyable music!

Robert
This sounds great!

fantastic vocals

love the mix and balance

super piano by Miya

enjoyed the listen

Kenny
Hello, floyd, Tom, Robert and Kenny

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very kind words and your continuous supports.
I am very happy you all like Natsuki's vocal and Miya's piano.
Tom Jobim is one of favorite composer, so I tried to make this tune by modeling his works.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
Very classy indeed. very well put together.

Mike B.
Shigeki

I think Jobim would be very pleased with this - oozes class. A superb piece of work.
Great playing and singing over a brilliant arrangement.

Peter
Shigeki

What a gorgeous Bossa Nova - one of our very favorite genres of music. Di and I wrote a couple dozen of them a few years back. We are going to pick the better ones and redo them in BIAB.

This is just so smooth and easy on the ears. The vocal and additional piano were wonderful and the arrangement was superb. Really nice!

Alan & Di
Hi Shigeki This was a very enjoyable song. As Alan put it very "smooth". Lovely vocal. Well done
Hello, Mike, Peter, Alan & Di, Scott

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very kind words and your continuous supports.
I am very glad you all like this tune, Natsuki's vocal and Miya's piano.

Alan & Di,
I am looking forward to the remake versions of your Bossa Nova works.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
Shigeki, I was captivated from the very first note.

There is just so much to enjoy with this song.

Superb vocal delivery, excellent mix, perfect balance of instruments. Who said MIDI couldn't deliver!

And what about that delivery on piano Miya Nakajima? More than sensational. She holds a conversation with the vocals throughout the song. Masterful presentation.

Going to be listening to this a lot more.

More please!
Originally Posted By: animarorecords
Hello, Mike, Peter, Alan & Di, Scott

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very kind words and your continuous supports.
I am very glad you all like this tune, Natsuki's vocal and Miya's piano.

Alan & Di,
I am looking forward to the remake versions of your Bossa Nova works.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi



Shigeki,

We will probably start doing that in 2 months, are some time thereabouts. Thank you for the interest!

Alan
Captivating song. Beautiful arrangement, mix and production. Enjoyed this a lot.


Charlie
Wow!!

We enjoy all your compositions and this one is absolutely one of our favorites. The Bossa feel works exceptionally well and Natsuki's performance is stunning.

Smooth tight production...everything about it is world class.

J&B
Hello, Trevor, Charlie, Janice & Bud

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very very kind words and your continuous supports.
I am very glad you all like this tune, Natsuki's vocal and Miya's piano.
Miya is one of the top jazz pianists in our local area.
Of course there are many other good pianists, but personally I like her piano the most.
Thanks again to all.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
Very pretty!! Your composing is very classic sounding and top notch-wonderful melody. Very well done! Take care. Greg
Shigeki Adachi,

Nice, loungy and jazzy bossa nova song with lovely vocals!

Rob and Anne-Marie
Hello, Greg, Rob and Anne-Marie

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very very kind words and your continuous supports.
I am very glad you all like this tune.
I am always composing as music theory.
So my songs are classic sounding and loungy.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
Shigeki Adachi,

I listened to this quite a while back and was blown away. It seems that I forgot to leave a comment. My apologies. There's no two ways about it, this is inspired music making at its very best. You handled the bossanova style with pizzazz... comfortable and competent all the way. Natsuki Yoshikawa's singing is superb! You certainly have a fine collection of musicians in your circle of musical friends!

I really, REALLY enjoyed this.

All the best,
Noel
Wow, animarorecords - this blew me away! An excellent display of exactly what Band-in-a-Box can be capable of. This is a first class production, and I actually don't think anything could be done to make it better. Easy to listen to and get lost it - it's truly captivating.

Excellent, excellent work smile Keep 'em coming!
Hello, Noel

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very very kind words and your continuous supports.
Your comments are always very welcome.
Yes, Natsuki is a very good vocalist. I always appreciate her very much.
And I also appreciate my music circle friends.
Thanks to learning music with them I can still continue music now.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
Hello, Deryk

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very very kind words.
Yes, Band-in-a-Box is a really wonderful application.
MIDI styles or RealTracks, I always get a lot of inspiration from them.
I would like to continue to post my songs to this forum.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
I so love this track. What a beautiful voice. I'd love to hear an English version of these songs. Fabulous. Added to my Soundcloud listening.
Hello, lambada

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your positive feedback.
I am very glad you like this tune and Natsuki's vocal.
I would like to produce my songs in English someday, but it is too hard to write English lyrics for Japanese.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
I could listen to the vocals all day. it's such a beautiful song! I love when lyrics are written in such a way that anyone can relate, and you have done this beautifully. I could have easily believed this song was written about me! I guess that just proves how talented you guys are.
Hello, Ember

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your positive feedback.
And many thanks for your comment to the lyrics.
The lyrics were written by Chisato, a female lyricist belonging to the amateur lyricist group named "Escargot" with deep interaction with our music circle.
We are constantly making a lot of works jointly.
This song is one of them.
I am very glad you like this tune and Natsuki's vocal.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
This is absolutely one beautiful song! My type of song, nice and smooth. Everything blend perfectly.

This is a keeper.
Shigeki, smooth and lovely!! the vocal on this is wonderful!! Thanks, Torrey
Hello, Mario and Torrey

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your positive feedback.
I am very glad both of you like this tune.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi
Dear Shigeki...

I "fell in love" with Bossa Nova at such a young age that I can hardly remember which of the most famous tunes in that genre I heard first, but I'm reasonably sure it was Antonio Carlos Jobim's album on the Verve label titled, "Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Composer of Desafinado, Plays."

Listening to your compositions has convinced me that you are a musical "chameleon" who absorbs everything you've heard, and then, you take what you've listened to and make something very and distinctly your own with it.

Your Bossa Nova composition, "Precious", is just another example of the fruitful results of what I described above. Your instrumental arrangement is a coolly rhythmic and perhaps even danceable piece of Bossa Nova elegance.

Forum member "VideoTrack" made an amazingly insightful comment about Ms. Yoshikawa's singing that I wish I had thought of first: "She holds a conversation with the vocals in this song". Nothing could be more true, Shigeki. Her voice is as clear, as expressive, and as playful as a young girl's, yet at the same time delightfully sensuous. It's the waves above the undercurrent of your luxurious music.

I don't know where her own piano playing began and ended in your track, but wherever it came in, it only added to the jazzy "Brazilian-ness" of your song. Each stanza of the lyrics are like some new kind of musical "haiku."

The late jazz music "critic" Barry Ulanov described the title track of a Dave Brubeck album, "Time In', as "a fine thing, a sweet thing, a twilight thing." Those are deliciously descriptive and evocative words to communicate the essence of the feel of a piece of music, but I couldn't stop them from rising out of my memory as I listened to "Precious." I hope he won't mind that I borrowed them and offered them to you and Ms. Yoshikawa.

Sincerely,

"bluage" (a.k.a. Loren)
Dear Loren,

Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very kind words.
I am very happy you like this tune.
And many thanks for your nice comments to the vocal, piano and lyrics.
Tom Jobim is one of my favorite composers.
I have studied his music continuously.
In the meantime I gradually became aware of something like Bossa Nova's trick.
I would like to challenge various genres of music from now on.

Sincerely,

Shigeki Adachi
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