Sunday, March 14, 2010

Viva La Vida

Today was NUS Open House and Raffli sang Viva la Vida, and one other song that also sounded quite nice but I forgot the name. I loved the in-house performance in Raffles Hall, it was awesome! :) String instruments always sound extra nice in a band I think. There was Raffli on the drums (so cool, never seen him play drums; but he wasn't actually drumming, just keeping the beat and once in a while clanging a cymbal), Shawn on cello, Jing Horng on violin, and the very 'pro' Issac on acoustic guitar.

I was more impressed by this performance more than the actual one on Youtube by Coldplay, honestly speaking. Maybe it's just nice to hear things (especially strings) live. And with the alternate music arrangement - it sounded a bit different. Loved the drums effect. And this is without e-guitars for once haha. Maybe I have lower affinity towards e-guitars.

This is Tirza's favorite version on Youtube - Viva la Vida fused with Love story by Taylor Swift. Music only - this is an instrumental :)



Actual version by Coldplay, with singing:


I performed for Open House too, two in-house performances in Raffles Hall, and one of those performed in the Multi-Purpose Sports Hall.

For CME I fused Starry Starry Night, Wind Beneath My Wings, and You Raise Me Up; recycling Phoenix Fest's item.

1) Starry Starry Night - didn't exactly reproduce this, what we did was more 'sentimental' version of this. This is orginal singing is more detached, I feel. You should read the lyrics if you want. The message is a bit depressing - but they are all based on Vincent van Gogh's paintings.



2) Wind Beneath my Wings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrvodSr3JmA

Embedding disabled so here's the link. I can embed other versions, but this Celine Dion's is my favorite so far out of the limited number in Youtube. Song is nice -but not much of a peak - hence my idea of fusing it with You Raise Me Up (Starry Starry night suggested to be added by JH later on).

Most people don't know this song (surprisingly) so I added the Youtube link here. I like it's lyrics quite a lot :)

With He Li and Yifan's duet I did 一个像 夏天, 一个像秋天 by Fan WeiQi, and Zhao Wei's 好想好想 that Jon is currently still addicted with after listening to our practices.

一个像 夏天, 一个像秋天



Actually I'm not that much in love with this song, but the lyrics are pretty cute.

好想好想 (I put this here before, but anyway, just for a record).