Cover art by S.Hansen
It was my birthday this weekend and I went out on a limb earlier in the week for a last minute HUGE favor from some close musician friends to do covers of some of my favorite songs or songs I thought the musician would do a cover of really well and surprisingly they agreed….20 of them! So here are the first 5:
Benoit Pioulard covers Hum: This is absolutely stunning, Benoit has a voice that i’d want to have if I could sing. I heard once that Benoit liked Hum so I asked him to cover a song by them and everyone should be more glad with this outcome.
Corbu covers Colder: This one was a touchy song since its probably one of my favorite songs of all time but I didn’t want an all electronic or post rock group to cover it so I asked Brooklyn’s experimental guitar duo to do it right and they did by taking it to a very unique and detailed level that i’m sure you’ll enjoy.
Alex Cornell covers Empire Of The Sun: You know him from his phenomenal work and posts on the blog and if you haven’t already seen him on youtube then here’s a very fine example of what he’s capable of creating musically.
A Setting Sun covers Tracy Chapman: A Setting Sun probably had the most challenging and off the radar cover to do but I thought a brighter doom metal approach might the only thing that would make this matchless pair up work and he killed it, especially check out how he gets to the end which is surprising after you hear the first few seconds.
Shigeto covers Boards Of Canada: This one is out there, as some of you may know Shigeto is a drummer that makes beats similar to Dabrye meets Caribou or something of that nature but loves to experiment so I thought why not see what he could do with a Boards Of Canada song since I know he’ll try to get crazy with it and not steer towards the guitar angle which I had to hear.
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I hope you enjoy and collect them all. 5 more coming up next week.
Thanks Jakub I’m looking forward to hearing the rest.
Holy crap!!!! That cover of Little Dipper IS AMAZING. Thanks for arranging it. And thanks to Pioulard for doing such an amazing homage to what is, perhaps, one of my favorite songs of all time. Nice.
Nice.
Thank you Jakub. Happy Belated Birthday. Thanks for sharing your present with the rest of us. Looking forward to the complete series.
Wow the cover of Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream is amazing!!! Thanks so much!!!!!
He ruined it for me… D: (Alex Cornell’s cover)
I’m really digging the Setting Sun and Shigeto covers!
Is it possible to get this in 320 kbps mp3 though?
Alex’ cover of Empire of the Sun is amazing! Not to say the rest aren’t!
Happy belated birthday Jakub.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKUB!
Alex, I think you stole the sun from the rest of these tracks. Very rad cover!
Glad people are liking them as much as I am, I can’t wait for you all to hear the rest of them.
Haha I have to agree with everyone else, great cover Alex! Where is the vid from that song?
Definitely agree with all the ‘amazings.’ great great covers.
seriously. That Tracy Chapman cover is bonkers. I cringe at the thought of that song being covered, but that track blew me away.
Happy b-day Jacub 🙂 This is simply amazing! I’m just starting to listen to Alex Cornell’s music. What a voice 😮 Skipped directly down to Empire which I’m litening to now, but I’ll jump to track 1 when it’s over hehe.
Awesome cover Alex!
Luvin it, thanks for sharing your Bday pressies with us 🙂
Would it be ok to use one or two of these on some online surf/sailing vids I’m going to be working on? Full credits and linkys of course. Wanting to use some different sounds to the rock and flash affairs they usually are!
OH MY.
Op –
These aren’t official covers just wanted to share them so i’d be careful but i’m sure if there for personal use and promotion use only then you should be good.
Scott I now see that the sailboat album cover design had intentionally skewed angles. I thought it was just a mess up when i commented on that cover, sorry! Here the lines are skewed enough to be obvious and intentional, showing the obvious design choice. This cover is great, reminiscent of old blues album covers. Great work as always!
Have you ever considered adding a repeat button?
great as ever!
Thanks for the tunes – I enjoy them greatly!
Cool, thanks for letting me know Jakub.
Happy Birthday Jakub, thanks for sharing your music with me this past year. I hope I can share with you one day as well.
Amazing covers! HB 🙂
Alex Cornell’s Walking on a Dream is… WOW! … wow!
Happy belated birthday Jakub!
What a fantastic idea. I love listening to the variety of covers and can’t wait to listen to the rest.
Hi Scott
Id like to know how u make that “line effects” we can see on the cover (i mean the effect applied to the circles). Is that made with an illustrator plugin ?
Please let me know
thanks a lot in advance