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The Wilderness Downtown

This morning I woke and flicked on Twitter and found a message from someone called Janice who I did not know.  She was pointing me to a project she is doing.  I am a The Smiths fan and so is she.  Well, all I can say is it is one of the best Twitter links I have EVER followed.  Quite simply Janice is working through the entire catalogue of songs by The Smiths, recording them all just with voice.  She uses her voice in a variety of ways to cover all aspects of the the instrumentation of the songs.  Most impressively, she is not trying to build direct covers, she is actually effectively remixing the songs as well.  What she is building is a marvelous collection of lushly layered and multitracked covers of these beautiful songs.  What she is, quite obviously, is bloody brilliant and clever!  I am listening to some of the tracks as I write this, each one new to my ears.  The problem I am having is everyone becomes my favourite after listening to it, they are all seriously good arrangements.  Well done Janice and thank you for the link to your lovely work.

Here is one of her tracks, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side…..

07 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side by blackpiano

Check the rest of her work out at http://thesmithsproject.blogspot.com