I heard such a bizarre comment once and it’s never left my
head. I was playing a gig and casually
chatting to a fellow musician who was also playing the same night and he said
to me, “I don't need to cover other people’s songs, I write my own music”. This sounded like a foreign language to me. I LOVE covering other people’s songs. To take something I already like, crafted by
someone else and trying to make it my own.
Putting in your own emotion, your own story, your own twist into it.
I remember listening to La Isla Bonita when I was as young
as 5 years old on the radio and thinking how different it sounded to the other
songs I was used to hearing. I loved the
soft voices in the background, the Spanish sounding guitar and interesting
rhythms. I’ve tried take the idea of
those elements I originally loved, and apply them in my own way with this
cover; keeping an emphasis on the vocals and the rhythms too by adding a modern
day Hispanic style reggaetón influenced beat.
La Isla Bonita was written by Madonna Ciccone, Bruce Gaitsch and Patrick Leonard. Copywrite Wb Music Corp. O/B/O Edge Of Fluke Music, Wb Music Corp and EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
This version is performed, recorded and produced by Web Sheldon. Mastered by Dave at Dragonfly Studios, Bristol.
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