Scenes From The Dating Tree
About this album
Scenes From The Dating Tree
There might be a true story behind this album or it might be pure fiction, who`s to know?
What is true is that there`s a hill in a small village in Switzerland overlooking Lake Zurich. On the top of the hill there is a single tree under which someone once placed a bench. Locals refer to the spot as the Dating Tree.
Some stories may have started there, some may have ended and some could have been but never were.
But sitting on that bench on many summer evenings and watching people walk by, I couldn`t help wondering what if…
The tracks on this album are not only the soundtrack to these thoughts but are also - for the most part - tracks I listened to sitting on that bench after the initial recording sessions. The notes I made on what changes I wanted to make to the tracks led to the creation of this album. In that sense none of the tracks are new but I did re-record all the keyboard parts, changed some of the arrangements and generally tried to make the tracks sound better than before.
Most on these re-recorded, remixed and remastered tracks won`t be available as new branches of the original Wikiloops song trees, as the “bad old” versions are already there. At the end of the day, it`s just my vanity that led to these new versions.
Extra mention must go to KellsBells who kindly let me do some weird rearranging and mixing of her vocals on “Love Grown Cold” with the background sound of her broken heater included as a special effect. I did some unspeakable things to her vocal track but you may rest assured that a) she signed off on the vocal multilation and b) her voice sounds lovely in real life.
Thanks also to rootshell and TeeGee for words of encouragement during the mixing process, to Shamika and Aito for distracting me with all things finnish (up to and including thoughts on saunas) and of course to Richard for making it all possible in the first place.
The Dating Tree has since (metaphorically) been burned to the ground and people have moved on. Some stories are meant to be archived and then forgotten. What remains is the joy of listening to the music these fabulous musicians have created.
Dare To Dream
Based on “Never forget”, #308485
PJE (dr), niodoj (gt), MySounds (kb, bs)
The Flame Keeps You Higher (ft Shi)
Based on “The Fire!”, #201073
Sami (gt, perc, bs), Shi (voc), PJE (dr, perc), MySounds (kb, arr)
Alone Under The Tree
Based on “Frankie`s 66 GTO”, #306217
FrankieJ (gt), Ernie440 (bs), MySounds (kb)
Island Of Dreams
Based on “I Dream Of An Island”, #272999
SlonMusic (gt, bs, dr), ROBJOL (voc, gt), MySounds (kb)
Second Movement
Based On “Sonhos Musicais No04”, #84739
MarceloD (kb), Fishinmissio (sax, taken from #138221), MySounds (kb)
Ghosts Whisper In Your Ear
Based on “Long Seagulls”, #307298
Andri (gt), MySounds (kb)
It Will Never Last
Based on “Down, Too”, #242783
DanDiplo (gt), FrankieJ (gt), MySounds (kb)
Love Grown Cold (ft. KellsBells)
Based on “The Abandoned Factory Of Dreams”, #307628
KellsBells (voc), MySounds (kb)
Burn The Tree Down
Based on “Take It Or Leave It”, #274185
Ign1742934059 (gt), MySounds (kb)
Moving On
Based on “Cosimorock And Fatras”, #29634
COSIMOROCK (gt), Shumdrummer (dr), fatras (bs), MySounds (kb)
Re-Recorded, mixed and mastered between January and April 2025
created by
MySounds
on Apr 26, 2025
Thumbs: 12
Listened: 199 times
Involved artists
Scenes From The Dating Tree
There might be a true story behind this album or it might be pure fiction, who`s to know?
What is true is that there`s a hill in a small village in Switzerland overlooking Lake Zurich. On the top of the hill there is a single tree under which someone once placed a bench. Locals refer to the spot as the Dating Tree.
Some stories may have started there, some may have ended and some could have been but never were.
But sitting on that bench on many summer evenings and watching people walk by, I couldn`t help wondering what if…
The tracks on this album are not only the soundtrack to these thoughts but are also - for the most part - tracks I listened to sitting on that bench after the initial recording sessions. The notes I made on what changes I wanted to make to the tracks led to the creation of this album. In that sense none of the tracks are new but I did re-record all the keyboard parts, changed some of the arrangements and generally tried to make the tracks sound better than before.
Most on these re-recorded, remixed and remastered tracks won`t be available as new branches of the original Wikiloops song trees, as the “bad old” versions are already there. At the end of the day, it`s just my vanity that led to these new versions.
Extra mention must go to KellsBells who kindly let me do some weird rearranging and mixing of her vocals on “Love Grown Cold” with the background sound of her broken heater included as a special effect. I did some unspeakable things to her vocal track but you may rest assured that a) she signed off on the vocal multilation and b) her voice sounds lovely in real life.
Thanks also to rootshell and TeeGee for words of encouragement during the mixing process, to Shamika and Aito for distracting me with all things finnish (up to and including thoughts on saunas) and of course to Richard for making it all possible in the first place.
The Dating Tree has since (metaphorically) been burned to the ground and people have moved on. Some stories are meant to be archived and then forgotten. What remains is the joy of listening to the music these fabulous musicians have created.
Dare To Dream
Based on “Never forget”, #308485
PJE (dr), niodoj (gt), MySounds (kb, bs)
The Flame Keeps You Higher (ft Shi)
Based on “The Fire!”, #201073
Sami (gt, perc, bs), Shi (voc), PJE (dr, perc), MySounds (kb, arr)
Alone Under The Tree
Based on “Frankie`s 66 GTO”, #306217
FrankieJ (gt), Ernie440 (bs), MySounds (kb)
Island Of Dreams
Based on “I Dream Of An Island”, #272999
SlonMusic (gt, bs, dr), ROBJOL (voc, gt), MySounds (kb)
Second Movement
Based On “Sonhos Musicais No04”, #84739
MarceloD (kb), Fishinmissio (sax, taken from #138221), MySounds (kb)
Ghosts Whisper In Your Ear
Based on “Long Seagulls”, #307298
Andri (gt), MySounds (kb)
It Will Never Last
Based on “Down, Too”, #242783
DanDiplo (gt), FrankieJ (gt), MySounds (kb)
Love Grown Cold (ft. KellsBells)
Based on “The Abandoned Factory Of Dreams”, #307628
KellsBells (voc), MySounds (kb)
Burn The Tree Down
Based on “Take It Or Leave It”, #274185
Ign1742934059 (gt), MySounds (kb)
Moving On
Based on “Cosimorock And Fatras”, #29634
COSIMOROCK (gt), Shumdrummer (dr), fatras (bs), MySounds (kb)
Re-Recorded, mixed and mastered between January and April 2025
created by
MySounds
on Apr 26, 2025
Thumbs: 12
Listened: 199 times
Involved artists
Great work :W
+2Review by rootshell on Apr 28, 2025
great sounding album Thomas, i really enjoyed the overall vibe, very enjoyable :W:Y recording and sound quality is perfect
Lovely Album
+1Review by Herring K on May 8, 2025
I am the resident Doomsfish, but I sometimes surface for announcing good things, and this is one of them: Go listen to this album, it is a great example how "normal" hobby musicians on a tiny website create wonderful music that in my fishy opinion can hold it's own against anything you hear on the radio these days. Keep on swimming My Sound ;)
A very very VERY good Wikiloops album
+1Review by TeeGee on May 8, 2025
I am really happy to listen to the finished album, having read your thread about it, and I am happy that my encouragement had maybe helped you when needed. I am a just a simple mechanic, not a musician really, but as with everything in life, when you put in the effort, it shows most of the time. If I sand a piece of steel with 240, then 600, 800, 1000, 1500 grit and then polish it it further on the polishing wheel, and then electro plate it, it will look great. It will look ok without polishing, and it will be ok without plating. But, when you want it to be as good as possible, you got to put in the elbow grease, take out those scratches and blemishes that only you see most of the time. And this is what you did with these tracks. You took some tracks that were more or less ok, and you sanded and polished them and finally gave them a glitter to finish them, to make them shine like a beautiful polished piece of art. You did a great job, I know how hard it is to do, well done. Hats off to you, Sir!!!
Awesome album
+1Review by Ernie440 on May 2, 2025
Really nice compilation my friend!! Great work here! :W
Absolutely dreamlike 'coolelection'
+1Review by GeoWaEng on Apr 27, 2025
A wonderful collection, awesome arrangements and a touching story behind this album, it's great!
Often I love sitting under a tree like this one and listening into the silence in the peaceful nature, next time, I will remember this story and I will enjoy this music...
Often I love sitting under a tree like this one and listening into the silence in the peaceful nature, next time, I will remember this story and I will enjoy this music...
So far, so...
+1Review by Benjab1208 on Apr 26, 2025
The first two tracks are full of atmosphere. Sprinkle in with them
some mild tinges of those familar old longing sentiments as well we are all too familiar with and then pair them up with some unsettlingly familiar dashes of forlorness, aching and need, and the carefully crafted mixes of both are complete. These first two tracks, I sicerely hope, are strogly hinting towards the overall general aura and direction that this demo will contimue to take. If my guess is correct, then it is already appearing as though we have a creation compiled that will prove to be an honest winner of sorts.
honest winner
some mild tinges of those familar old longing sentiments as well we are all too familiar with and then pair them up with some unsettlingly familiar dashes of forlorness, aching and need, and the carefully crafted mixes of both are complete. These first two tracks, I sicerely hope, are strogly hinting towards the overall general aura and direction that this demo will contimue to take. If my guess is correct, then it is already appearing as though we have a creation compiled that will prove to be an honest winner of sorts.
honest winner
It mates my day
+1Review by ROBJOL on Apr 26, 2025
I listende white talking my morning coffee. Relaxing.
Scenes From The Dating Tree.
+1Review by Lazyprune on Apr 26, 2025
This album is beautiful, a fine work. A sweet melancholy that flows in and out of us. Thank you for the gift My Sounds. 💖
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Great fun for all, a great way of learning to improvise. best musical web site I have come across, cannot put the guitar down now!
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