Scenes From The Dating Tree

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Scenes From The Dating Tree

There might be a true story behind this album or it might be pure fiction, who`s to know?

What is true is that there`s a hill in a small village in Switzerland overlooking Lake Zurich. On the top of the hill there is a single tree under which someone once placed a bench. Locals refer to the spot as the Dating Tree.

Some stories may have started there, some may have ended and some could have been but never were.

But sitting on that bench on many summer evenings and watching people walk by, I couldn`t help wondering what if…

The tracks on this album are not only the soundtrack to these thoughts but are also - for the most part - tracks I listened to sitting on that bench after the initial recording sessions. The notes I made on what changes I wanted to make to the tracks led to the creation of this album. In that sense none of the tracks are new but I did re-record all the keyboard parts, changed some of the arrangements and generally tried to make the tracks sound better than before.

Most on these re-recorded, remixed and remastered tracks won`t be available as new branches of the original Wikiloops song trees, as the “bad old” versions are already there. At the end of the day, it`s just my vanity that led to these new versions.

Extra mention must go to KellsBells who kindly let me do some weird rearranging and mixing of her vocals on “Love Grown Cold” with the background sound of her broken heater included as a special effect. I did some unspeakable things to her vocal track but you may rest assured that a) she signed off on the vocal multilation and b) her voice sounds lovely in real life.

Thanks also to rootshell and TeeGee for words of encouragement during the mixing process, to Shamika and Aito for distracting me with all things finnish (up to and including thoughts on saunas) and of course to Richard for making it all possible in the first place.

The Dating Tree has since (metaphorically) been burned to the ground and people have moved on. Some stories are meant to be archived and then forgotten. What remains is the joy of listening to the music these fabulous musicians have created.


Dare To Dream
Based on “Never forget”, #308485
PJE (dr), niodoj (gt), MySounds (kb, bs)

The Flame Keeps You Higher (ft Shi)
Based on “The Fire!”, #201073
Sami (gt, perc, bs), Shi (voc), PJE (dr, perc), MySounds (kb, arr)

Alone Under The Tree
Based on “Frankie`s 66 GTO”, #306217
FrankieJ (gt), Ernie440 (bs), MySounds (kb)

Island Of Dreams
Based on “I Dream Of An Island”, #272999
SlonMusic (gt, bs, dr), ROBJOL (voc, gt), MySounds (kb)

Second Movement
Based On “Sonhos Musicais No04”, #84739
MarceloD (kb), Fishinmissio (sax, taken from #138221), MySounds (kb)

Ghosts Whisper In Your Ear
Based on “Long Seagulls”, #307298
Andri (gt), MySounds (kb)

It Will Never Last
Based on “Down, Too”, #242783
DanDiplo (gt), FrankieJ (gt), MySounds (kb)

Love Grown Cold (ft. KellsBells)
Based on “The Abandoned Factory Of Dreams”, #307628
KellsBells (voc), MySounds (kb)

Burn The Tree Down
Based on “Take It Or Leave It”, #274185
Ign1742934059 (gt), MySounds (kb)

Moving On
Based on “Cosimorock And Fatras”, #29634
COSIMOROCK (gt), Shumdrummer (dr), fatras (bs), MySounds (kb)

Re-Recorded, mixed and mastered between January and April 2025
créé par MySounds on 26 avr. 2025

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