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Style and Inspiration

This Month's release is a song called À Deux. It is a folk-rock french song that Patrice wrote for his brother's wedding four years ago. It's a great song that discusses love and relationships. It was inspired by his life and his brother's life. Throughout the song, the style of music changes to accentuate the lyrics.

Anecdotes

This song didn't take me long to write. It was my gift to my brother and his wife for their wedding, as I couldn't be present for the occasion, because I live five thousand kilometres away from them. So, when I started writing the song I remember I had a hard time at first, my mind wasn't going in the right direction. Then, I sat at Burrard Skytrain station in Vancouver during a lunch hour when I was still working a full time job in finances. It was the cherry blossom. For those that have never seen the cherry blossom in the Lower Mainland, you are in for a treat, because it is so gorgeous; it inspired me a lot. I believe it only took me one lunch hour to write this song. It was very easy for me, as french is my first language and rhyming in french was like breathing. So, when I came home that night, I tried to work on this song with my guitar. I can tell you honestly that the first version of this song is very different than the newest version. Not only in the arrangement, but the melody. That is quite normal for a song. It usually takes me several times of singing a new song to lock in the melody. 

When I felt I was happy with it. I recorded it with what I had, which wasn't much at the time. I used a loop pedal to record each instrument individually. The only thing with that type of pedal is that you have to listen to the whole song every time you want to record any part of the song. It is very tedious and the day that I was supposed to send it to my brother, my pedal lagged and erased most of my work. So, I had to rerecord the whole thing, which was a pain in my butt. I also remember using a rubbermaid bin, on which I was sitting, I had put a microphone behind it, with a compressor and a distortion pedal, to make my hitting on the bin sound like a bass drum.

When Pete and I recorded the song, it was very easy and it took no time at all. The hardest thing was to mix the drums to make them feel the way we wanted.

Patrice S.

We hope you like this song as much as we do. Don't hesitate to give us some feedback and donate generously.

Credits

Written and composed by Patrice S.

Arrangement by Patrice S. and Peter C.

Guitars, bass guitar, vocals and percussions by Patrice S.

Back vocals by Alison A.

Drums, percussions and programming by Peter C.

Mixing and mastering by Peter C.