As if that wasn’t enough. As if the final chapter had not concluded the story. As if the denouement was lacking. As if …
Brian was contacted from afar. Long time community member and collaborator extraordinaire Roman Shootov @RomanS messaged Brian asking if he could do a remix. Over the course of days and weeks, communications between Roman, Brian and Richard passed back and forward. Until one fine day … Ta-Dah! A new and sparkling version of the song came to light and dazzled us.
Over to Brian, who kindly introduced this next instalment.
What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, a funny thing happened on the forum last week. After the unexpected collaboration with Richard on the ‘circus’ project, and witnessing him play it at the OM on guitar, I thought it might be nice to surprise him with his splendid programmed music replaced by more traditional instruments. Enter our Russian resident mix-master, Roman, who has been keeping his head down lately. Although he’s been busy in his real life, he kindly agreed to have a listen and see what he could contribute. The cat had to be let out of the bag, as he needed the programmed parts from Richard, so the three musketeers set off on their merry way…
Well, not quite.
This turned out to be quite an odd ‘collaboration’, insofar as somebody ‘did a thing’ then somebody else picked up the baton and used that to put their own spin on it and passed it on to the next to reinterpret again. There was minimal discussion amongst us (that was listened to ;D) and the results once again demonstrate what a wonderful place this forum is, where people help and encourage others purely for the enjoyment of it.
I love both Richard’s and Roman’s versions. The good thing about music is you don’t have to choose. Thank you both - and I promise- no more jumping the shark
