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Atlantic by Joanna Palazzolo is it any wonder? by Radioplay
To me there has always been a haunting element to the lyrics in Atlantic. Whilst Like many fans, I first heard Is It Any Wonder? when it received its U.K. radio pre- thinking about which song I wanted to cover for UTIS I could hear my own ver- miere on Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show in April 2006. To say I was astonished was an sion of Atlantic going around in my head. I wanted to slow things down and create understatement - I loved the song itself, but was particularly blown away by the sonic effects that they'd managed to achieve using pianos and synths - some an atmosphere with the lyrics. When I hear this song I think of being up in an particularly "guitar-like" sounds, most notably the piano riff with its heavy wah aeroplane flying back and forth from my home in England to New York to visit my and distortion. then boyfriend now husband, which is why I ended the song with a jet plane. The lyrics speak of my thoughts and fears on those journeys whilst crossing the At- I decided to attempt to cover the track for two main reasons - firstly, its just a lantic. I wanted to give the song a different feel as if I was in a place where lo- great song and its good to hear Keane doing something so full-on. My second (and perhaps greater) motivation was to satisfy my own music-geek desires in nely angels sing me to my sleep. All of the sounds I chose on the song were to an attempt to replicate some of the extreme crazy sounds that Tim managed to give a sense of being up on plane in my own cocoon with the wind and other- get out of his piano - however, there's even some guitar in there! My original worldly sounds. I used the sound of a heartbeat which I felt went with the mood intention was to have a guest vocalist on this track but lack of time meant I didn't and captures a bit of Ultravox's Vienna, one of my favou- have time to properly pull this together (sorry Kerry!) - rite songs. I recorded the song in the early hours of my so, this version has my own vocals on it. freezing cold New York apartment on my Roland Fantom The track was recorded at home using Adobe Audition X8 which I bought a week before this recording. It was my on a Mac Pro, using a variety of sounds, guitars, virtual first time performing, recording and mixing a song on a synths and external effects. keyboard and I was chuffed to make a Keane song my first.
Name: Martin McDonald Forum name: for a moment Forum Name: Mart Name: Joanna Palazzolo Web: http://www.radioplay-online.net Email: [email protected] http://www.myspace.com/radioplaymusic UTIS Booklet final.qxd:Layout 1 02.04.2007 19:44 Uhr Seite 6
nothing in my way Leaving so soon? by Twilidyne by Artemis
We decided to make a cover of Nothing In My Way because it was one of our fa- It all began on a fateful Saturday... Heather set down a boogie at the pianoforte, vorite songs on the album. We both have a friend who we think this song applies while Jessica ate her mac and cheese. In-between the chastising of little sisters, too. He had been going through a tough time in his life and it was obvious that Jessica swooned the red-hot mic with her sultry vocals, then passed it on to He- something was wrong, but he tried his very hardest to cover it up. ather. Pausing to purge the inner lining of her lungs through extreme coughing fits, Heather managed to lay down her vocals with her lungs still in tact. Teacher We recorded this song using a few diffrent digital piano. We decided to go with said the bubonic plague would never hit ya, but she also told us Pluto was the the original introduction because we wanted it to be a bit diffrent than the album version. We were able to create the distorted piano sounds by using actual dis- ninth planet from the sun. When Heather is not enduring the deterioration of her tortion pedals for electric guitars and some of the effects on the music studio lungs, you can find her speaking Chinese and Russian to hobos at Arizona State program we used to record the song. After the instrumental part of the song was University. And when Jessica is not eating mac and cheese, you can find her ea- done we recorded our vocals ting pie at ASU while engrossed in a book detailing the and finished the song. engineering of chemicals. The two joined forces under the alias "Artemis" 4 years ago, but the band is (or as you say Bandmembers: over the pond, "the band are") more of an occasional ren- Derek Jevens, Deni Robnolt dezvous revived now and then to remember that what- Web: www.myspace.com/twilidyne soever our soul is destined to inhale, we shall exhale all (Derek Jevens: Piano, Bass, Synths, through music. Drums, Vocals (in Broken Toy) and backing vocals in Nothing In My Way Bandmembers: Jessica Bender, Heather Nyhart Deni Robnolt: Vocals in Nothing In My Forum Name: artemisartemis Way, backing vocals of Broken Toy.) UTIS Booklet final.qxd:Layout 1 02.04.2007 19:44 Uhr Seite 8
a bad dream by Adrien & Lojay Hamburg song by Lojay
Here are Adrien « Polar » Bolko (19) and Laurence « Lo » JAY (35) from France. Hi! My name is Laurence “Lo” Jay (35) from Bordeaux/France, where I studied Adrien from Champagne, where he studies multimedia, and Lo from Bordeaux international trade and foreign languages. I now develop my own network mar- where she’s doing network marketing, met in Paris at a Keane’s gig. Their keting business along with playing jazz and pop music as a real passionate! encounter was a revelation ! I’ve developed a true love for Keane’s magical sound in which I recognize myself We recorded A Bad Dream in one shot at a Lo’s friend’s home studio in Bordeaux and this similar particular feeling I get when I write my own songs, which I have and created our own intimist and spontaneous sound with Lo on her Martin & Co done for twenty years now. I also love singing and playing guitar and banjo. guitar and Adrien on keyboard. It was a real challenge to experience this crazy I chose Hamburg Song which could’ve been part of my own recent life and love adventure for we didn’t know each other and had no idea what would come out! story and I wanted to try to give as much as emotion as Tom does on this tune in Besides it was the very first my own way by creating a different but still intimate recording session for Adrien sound based on acoustic guitar. I used my old Martin & ! Thanks Antoine for being a Co and did the recording session in Bordeaux at a good great helpful sound engi- friend’s of mine called Antoine Muel. neer. We had a blast !
Bandmembers: Adrien “Polar” Bolko and Laurence “Lo” Jay Name: Laurence “Lo” Jay Web: http://www.lojay.net Web: http://www.lojay.net UTIS Booklet final.qxd:Layout 1 02.04.2007 19:44 Uhr Seite 10
put it behind you by Amy Keller the iron sea by Radioplay
I originally chose Hamburg Song because the guitar chords were fairly basic, but When I first watched the Strangers DVD, the section that interested me about it the song has come to have a special meaning for me. The words express perfectly the most was watching Tim alone in Helioscentric, experimenting with new my feelings about a difficult situation I faced in the past few weeks with a person sounds - the most exciting of which was watching him bash out an overdriven I care about. Learning to play Hamburg Song gave me an outlet for my emotions. melody at the CP-70, heavily drenched in tape echo. I was delighted to discover Here’s my version of Hamburg Song with me singing and playing guitar. that original melody morphed into what we now know as The Iron Sea. This epic instrumental is the cornerstone of the album, simultaneously deeply mournful I decided to cover Put It Behind You one day before the final due date for this pro- and uplifting, evoking the turmoil and pressure the band were going through. ject since no one had submitted a cover for this song. Four hours and some very tired, bruised, and numb fingers later, I had learned the chords and recorded My aim was to concentrate on taking the epic nature of the track and twisting this version. And, I love this song - it has good advice from Tim R-O! So here’s it into something even more evocative and filmic. The dis- my version of Put It Behind You with me singing and play- torted piano that is the bedrock of the original is still pre- ing guitar. sent, but is now layered deep within a darker, orchestral backing. I attempted to make this the soundtrack to an Special thanks to Mo Rice-Oxley for his generous help in mixing the songs and to Caitlin (Frog_Princess) for her imaginary movie, expanding the intensity of the original to input and general encouragement in the process. an even larger canvas.
Name: Martin McDonald Name: Amy Keller Forum Name: Mart Forum Name: aimmeister Web: http://www.radioplay-online.net Web: www.myspace.com/amykkeller http://www.myspace.com/radioplaymusic UTIS Booklet final.qxd:Layout 1 02.04.2007 19:44 Uhr Seite 12
crystal ball by Carmen & Simon try again by Adrien
My name's Adrien “Polar” Bolko and I'm French. I'm just 19 and I'm a student in New technologies...Keane is one of my favorite lads and I love the way they sound. The track was recorded over a 2 week period, after Carmen first approached Simon with an idea for covering Crystal Ball. The song was chosen after hearing And, it's at the Keane's gig in Paris that I met Lojay who offered me the possibi- a beautiful acoustic version of the track and becoming enthralled by it... so we lity of recording some songs with her in a studio. And I thank her very much. tried to rip it off (whether that was a good idea or not, remains to be seen!). Simon first recorded the piano, then sent to Carmen who sang main vocals over I chose Try Again because I really love that song. I discovered it in the Strangers the top, and then sent back to Simon for final producing, editing and mastering, DVD and I fell in love with this song, which means a lot to me. I wanted to record as well as recording 2 sets of backing vocals. it in order to discover how recording a song too... And it was wonderful to do it.
I played keyboard and I wanted to hear an organ on this song, so I tried to put it as best as I could and I hope you enjoy listening it. It was the first recording session in my life and I'm very, very glad to have done it.
Maybe you'll hear some mistakes in my voice and in my French pronunciation :-) but I really hope that you'll enjoy listening it as much as I enjoy doing it. Forum Names: ckmw (vocals), simoncooldude You can contact me anytime if you have any question via (piano, backing vocals) my mail address: [email protected] UTIS Booklet final.qxd:Layout 1 02.04.2007 19:44 Uhr Seite 14
the frog prince broken toy by Twilidyne by Larissa & Greenstick
I only wanted to do Is It Any Wonder? first but then I saw that Greenstick also did We chose to make a cover of Broken Toy because it has a really powerful mes- an instrumental of The Frog Prince I just had to do it as well. I like this song be- sage about friendship. Our friends probably mean more to us than anybody else cause it remembers me of a fairy tale or something like that. Nothing more to in the world besides our families. We both have had friends who betrayed our say, that was the reason I chose it. (Larissa) friendship and so covering this song feels like we are singing to thoes old friends who left us behind. The Frog Prince isn't a very complicated song (there's an repeating pattern that runs all the way out) so it didn't take very long to learn and record it. After posting Recording this song was kind of difficult at first because we had never played the track on the forum Larissa asked me if she could use the instrumental for the anything in 3/4 time before. After figuring out the drums to the song we were cover project and of course I gave my permission. Unfortunately she used an old able to record the song using a digital piano. We then used vocal effects to create version of the song wich contains some mistakes... Larissa told me that The Frog certian sounds that we could not make with a keyboard. For the piano distortion Prince is very difficult song to sing for her because she just can't sing as low as we just mic'd a piano up and Tom can. (Dirk-Jan) distorted the piano using the music software's effects Forum Name: plugins. Muukuuh (vocals) Email: [email protected] Web: www.myspace.com/la- rissagermany Forum name: Bandmembers: Greenstick (music) Derek Jevens, Deni Robnolt Name: Dirk-Jan Bartels Web: Email: www.myspace.com/twilidyne [email protected] UTIS Booklet final.qxd:Layout 1 02.04.2007 19:44 Uhr Seite 16
Is it any wonder? by Larissa & Greenstick
I chose Is it any Wonder? because I really like this song and because it's the rea- son why I became a Keane Fan. I love to sing it and it's one of my favorites. When I first read that there will be a competition, the first song that came to my mind was Is it any Wonder?. And then when Greenstick said that he wanted to do it with me I was really happy. That's why I chose to do it. (Larissa)
At first I didn't know where to start making IIAW but after some experimenting Bonus Tracks with the effects my piano started to sound like the 'guitar' intro. Just a few day's after that moment I posted the song on the forum (the drums, bass and effects were pretty easy to make), and many people seemed to like the song. When I received the version Larissa made, I was really impressed by her voice. Unfortu- nately we didn't win the competition. (Dirk-Jan)
Forum Name: Muukuuh (vocals) Email: [email protected] Web: www.myspace.com/la- rissagermany
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hamburg song by Nicht-Schöller the frog prince by Areal
We formed the band in September 2006 in Vienna (Austria) and have since been First of all thank's for this great oportunity! covering a number of rock and metal classics, but also working on some own The band was started in 1999 in Kyiv with three 12-years-old students of a se- material. We are all influenced by different genres: Bernhard is into medieval music condary school and one bassist. Right off the bat, the band began an endless pro- and a Beatles maniac, Karin is mainly influenced by indie and singer-songwriter cess of searching for their sound and style. First success came in 2003 when stuff, Mark is Mr. Manowar and Tom has a soft spot for alternative rock and AREAL took part in Chevrona Ruta and Podyh festivals and won some considera- Irish music. The common ground however is rock! ble prizes. Here upon the band began to play on various club parties and festivals in Kyiv and sometimes in other Ukrainian cities. Soon the first recordings began Karin has been a Keane fan since 2003 and is one of the hosts of the cover album to arise. Years 2004-2005 were spent by AREAL playing evergreens on bikers par- project. It was logical that she would convince the band to work on a cover song, and ties and in Kyiv pubs. In 2006 AREAL's songs began to appear on some Ukrainian we decided to go for Hamburg Song. The recording was a great learning experi- radio stations, and soon afterwards an official website was launched. ence for the whole band, since this was the first track we had ever recorded pro- Currently the band is preparing and recording songs for perly. We decided to speed up the song significantly and make our own, angrier (yet brighter) rock version of this melancholic piano ballad. The instruments (drums, their first album release. guitar, bass, and a tiny littly piano line at the very We decided to make a cover of The Frog Prince, because beginning of the song) and vocals were recorded this song is close to us and our feelings. It's so simple to track by track in our rehearsal room. The song was make Keane's cover if you love that music! then mixed using a standard recording software. It's all we feel and all we can put in 4:05 min :))) Band name: Nicht-Schöller We just love it... Band members: Bernhard (bass), Karin (vocals & keyboard), Mark (guitar), Tom (drums) Forum name: Karin Web: www.arealmusic.com Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] UTIS Booklet final.qxd:Layout 1 02.04.2007 19:44 Uhr Seite 20
on the project Karin, Girid and Markus (keane.at)
No Keane album without a fan cover compilation hosted by Keane.at! Two years after Soaps and Beers, the Hopes and Fears cover album, we decided to call on the Keane forum members again, asking for cover versions of tracks off Keane's sophomore and highly acclaimed album Under The Iron Sea. Keane's creative fans did not let us down, and we received a total of 27 covers by musicians from various countries.
All tracks were put up for online voting on the official Keane forum [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] at www.keanemusic.com for the community to decide on the selection to form part of Under The Ironed Sheets - Keane Fans Air Their Dirty Laundry, based on the number of votes received. Plus, there are three bonus tracks! Design
Two years later, after a new Keane record I´m back together If you would like to download the entire album, you can do so from this web- with the lads from keane.at and I´m very grateful to be in this site: ironedsheets.keane.at - if you do so, please donate an amount of your project again! Designing is my passion and fun especially choice to Warchild, an initiative Keane have been supporting themselves a lot. when it´s all about music and getting to know other people. You can find their Website at www.warchild.com. There are many talented fans here and I hope you like the second cover album. *mandy* Enjoy the second Keane cover album!
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