The Overture (China 1981) - Jean Michel Jarre replica cover

[locken55willi]

Gegen das Original kommt keiner an !!!

[chrisbern75]

@locken55willi Bla, bla, das ist ja was neues :)

[DupczacyBawol]

Make your own music!

[chrisbern75]

@DupczacyBawol Thanks, I make it, but nobody hear ot. Look on my Chanel for "The Cat On Her Lap", "Crying Earth" "The Tears Of a Nation" "The pictures of Melancholic"ory my first Degu video. It is a good music but it is difficult to be popular with own electronic music.

[DupczacyBawol]

FAKE!

[TheRachelNaomi]

Really you did a great job!!!!!!!!!!!!

[trentinodoc]

wow! almost I didn't understand this was a cover piece! great great performance

Grussen aus Italien :)

[fschmidt]

-=GREAT=- Job !!

[grolum]

i think you are ready to make your own music now... go for it.

[chrisbern75]

@grolum You have propably right my friend. I make my own music since 15 Years :D.

Here on YT You will find not much of them (videos: "Last Night", "My Degus", "Picture of Melancholy", "Tears of a nation", "Cha Cha banana"), but nobody here is watching it. No chance on YouTube for own music :/. Cheers :)

[neil73]

@chrisbern75 Don't let that stop you. I am a keyboard player that put some tunes up on myspace - my music is a cross between electronica (Jarre) and classical realtime playing (Wakeman). I recorded 2 albums in a weekend in December 2008, without preparation, sequencing or pre-thoughtout ideas, and therefore there are a few mistakes in timing, bum notes etc. But I think it is a great hobby to have. Keep up!

[chrisbern75]

@grolum And of cours my electronicas suite in two video parts "Crying Earth" composed als Tribute to 30 aniversary Oxygene :). Great music, video with message and ... nobody (almost) is watching it :D

[ProbTron]

Nice ! But the strings are not Eminent. The rest is amazing.

[chrisbern75]

@ProbTron Thank You :). Do You mean the strings by me are not Eminent or in original? Anyway I used no Eminent strings. I made this strings on synth (PWM)

[ultracox]

This was really a very good replica! Wonderful to hear. Good job!

[Martinofredwall100]

I rememeber The Overture was used on Danish TV for years ago.

[JetztdieWahrheit]

Chris it just wonderful !

Wunderbar ! Fantastik, ich liebe deine cover Arbeite !

Kongratulation !

[progress2007]

ich frag mich immernoch ob das im Konzert damals nicht einfach "Magnetic Fields" langsamer abgespielt war als Playback überlagert mit ein paar live-drums. Ich fand das damals einen ziemlich billigen Trick! Aber es hat definitiv seine eigenen Qualitäten so langsam...

Sehr gut nachempfunden übrigens!! Klingt besser als das Original.

Was hast Du eigentich als Drum verwendet?

Klingt nach handgespielt, das gefällt mir.

[chrisbern75]

Ich wusste natürlich, dass die beiden Stücke musikalisch das gleiche sind, aber durch Deinen Kommentar habe ich Magnetic Fields 1 um eine Oktave gesenkt und es kam tatsächlich Overture. Auch die Overture habe ich um eine Oktave erhöht und es klang wie Magnetic Fields 1. Vermutlich hast Du also Recht.

[chrisbern75]

Als Drum habe ich mehrere Synthesizer als einzelne Simmons Module verwendet. Das gibt mir ohne Simmons -Samples ziemlich gute Simmons-Souns nachzuahmen (auch in meinem Orient Express und Souvenir of China zu hören). Grüße! Ja ich habe alles per Hand gespielt (Bass wurde natürlich sequenziert und quantiesiert)

[Equinoxious]

so nice now listen to me!!!

[OentOent]

What is the tile of this song? I know there is also a faster version...

[chrisbern75]

That's right. Overture (this is the title here) is a "slow motion" version of Magnetic Fields 1 :)

[BlueLightning1]

I think this was written to act as an introduction to Jarre's shows in China. In the "documentary" video Jarre slowly walks out on stage during the final moments of the track. I guess he wanted something simple that fitted with the theme of the concert (which was mostly based around Magnetic Fields album that was released the same year). Still if you search Youtube you can find he also played MF1 at at least one of the concerts as well, although it (sadly) does not appear on the album.

[Posthuman2003]

superb

[saschaziller]

Beste Album von Jeare..........verdammt gut. Mein kommpliment.......WOW an alle

[chrisbern75]

Ganz meiner Meinung. Der beste Album mit den besten Versionen seiner bisherigen Stücke. Und danke für den Kompliment :)

[Diese67]

very good cover !!

[NADNERBNAC]

very good mate but you should still use a vocoder and get in "5", "4", 6...."

[chrisbern75]

Today I made this "5", "4", 6...." and "slapback echo" on snare to. You can hear it - see this blue link in the Song Info (up-right-side).

PS. Their is no vocoder. It's normal male voice with distortion or overdrive.

[NADNERBNAC]

I can totally tell it's yours because the second snare hit has'nt enough slapback echo and is a little dry on the reverb on it. What keys are you using?

[chrisbern75]

All my Simmons sounds I createt with virtual analog synthesizer Subtractor in Reason. For this "slapback echo" I had no idea, how could I make it.Maybe with a bit of delay?...

[Kilrathi333]

It's not an echo, neither the reverb. It's just that the human drummer, is playing that snare bit twice almost simultaneously. Sometime with two stick, sometime with one. If it's played using a single hand it's called tremolo or something. Listen closely to the original, and I'm sure you'll notice that.

[NADNERBNAC]

fantastic.

this was the first album I ever bought.