[Hear a new remix in .wav here https://kat330.bandcamp.com/album/if-6-was-3 or in .mp3 here
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kathleen_Martin/If_6_Was_3 ]
July 1, 2014: For my husband and my best friend, JT Lindroos. Happy Birthday, hunaJuha!)
Brian Wilson's "God Only Knows" and "Natural Woman" by King & Goffin are two favorite songs of mine from any era and any genre. Well aware I'm unworthy of covering either on its own, I thought I could at least make a wholly new song and sound from mixing up my performance bits of both together, much as I did in "From C to Sharpened C." I think this experimix is more successful than that one though, at least I personally like to listen to it more than last month's mash-up, and hope you do, too.
This track was completed weeks ago (June 9th) before the news about Gerry Goffin (R.I.P.), and the first instrument part I recorded was the Finnish harp (kantele). Over the vocals and harp came bongos, and later I added the synth keyboard lines of piano, celesta, music box, cello, flute and French horn to fill out the arrangement. I've returned to the song structure of "Resolution #9" in using its "power of 3's" scheme here by repeating a section twice again before the bridge bits. In total there are three to start followed by a bridge, then three more sections followed by a second bridge and then winding down with a final group of three. The sections differ slightly within any triad by either adding or subtracting instrument lines within them.
Among the films, CDs and books on JT's birthday wish list was this line item: "song." Well, hunaja, this is your one unwrappable surprise and wish fulfilled! You so make me feel like a natural woman and, truly, God only knows what I'd be without you! ♥♥♥ [please ck. out his other b'day ditty at http://soundcloud.com/kat330/birthday-song-to-be and Philo's own wild SC sounds at http://soundcloud.com/philo-gristle ]
Arranged, performed, recorded and produced by Kathleen Martin
