Beautiful In The Morning

I am pleased to announce that my song Beautiful In The Morning has been released. To listen to the song free of charge or purchase in MP3 and FLAC formats, please go to My Music page.

The song is from my forthcoming album Essence, where it occupies the forth track position. It is a song of deep love as the singer watches his partner wake up early one morning. A male lead sings the verses and chorus with a brief female backing vocal. I know music genres are somewhat subjective but I like to think of this track as loosely falling into the Quiet Storm / Lovers Rock / Smooth Jazz categories.

The song was entirely created in the digital domain using VSTi instruments, including acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, flute and drum kit. I mostly write gentle, late-night mid tempo songs that don't get in the way of the lyrics too much.

The vocals were created using VSTi voice software, something that is not as straight forward as it might seem. Although, sadly, I don't possess an adequate enough voice to sing lyrics onto my songs, I've none-the-less studied singing techniques so that I can give the VSTi voice an appropriate vocal quality, taking into account expression, dynamics and voice colour. It amuses me that while I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to bring the voice software to sound like something approaching a human voice, there are major artists out there that spend just as much time heavily processing their singing voices until they sound robotic! Perhaps we'll all meet in the middle someday.

The lyrics to Beautiful In The Morning were inspired by my memories of a particularly tender moment in an early love affair that I will never forget. They are written in the first person present tense which I believe has helped me strengthen the personal nature of the emotions in the song. I hope you enjoy it.

If you would like to read the lyrics, please go to My Music page and activate the Note and Script symbol on the track player.

I like to encourage my listeners to give constructive critique on my songs and lyrics. Please do use the comments box to let me know your views or rate the song as appropriate.