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[zapiekanki]

The song is featured in the first Dark Mountain Project compilation called From the Mourning of the World, and it´s currently streaming on soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.c...adman/georgia-1

Here below some comments by the singer on her collaboration with Mills:

"Your track is a duet with REM’s Mike Mills – how did that come about?"
"I was working as a sound trainee at The Hospital Studio in Covent Garden in 2007, where REM mixed their penultimate album, which brings us back to the fairytales of our lives…  MM’s vocals on the recording are so clever because they are both the memorising swamp I am lost in and the weighty anchor that holds me safe. And the latter quite literally in terms of the actual musical recording since I’d tried to capture the song as soon as it was conceived, resulting in times when it is barely vincible… Pianist Jools Scott is also exquisite in his piano accompaniment so I am able to wander with the in-discrepant footsteps of a child.  And Harvey Brown, violist and violinist, glistens as the last sight of winter slips away".

See: http://dark-mountain...agic-and-music/

[RSeabra]

I'm really sorry if I only have this to say, but... what an extremely boring song. At least three minutes too long, false endings, some overinterpretation, Mills barely there at all...

At least the singer's voice is solid (maybe it's great in some other song; I'd never heard of her before) and the piano work is very well-done.

Again, too bad if it's not the best of inputs, but this is me trying to participate more in Murmurs again.

[Lori]

I thought it was going to be another song called Georgia that I really love, but after listening, it's not, completely different song!  This Georgia is kind of melodramatic.   I've never heard of Bethia Beadman either,  I listened to some of the other songs of hers on sound cloud.   I enjoyed the listen.  Thanks.

[zapiekanki]

RSeabra, on 03 May 2013 - 09:05 PM, said:

I'm really sorry if I only have this to say, but... what an extremely boring song. At least three minutes too long, false endings, some overinterpretation, Mills barely there at all...

At least the singer's voice is solid (maybe it's great in some other song; I'd never heard of her before) and the piano work is very well-done.

Again, too bad if it's not the best of inputs, but this is me trying to participate more in Murmurs again.

It's oll korrect, RSeabra, thank you for taking the time to write this feedback.

Lori, on 04 May 2013 - 04:58 AM, said:

I thought it was going to be another song called Georgia that I really love, but after listening, it's not, completely different song!  This Georgia is kind of melodramatic.   I've never heard of Bethia Beadman either,  I listened to some of the other songs of hers on sound cloud.   I enjoyed the listen.  Thanks.

Thanks to you Lori, for the comment. Me neither, I had never heard of Ms. Beadman but Mills' collaborations have in the past opened my eyes (ears) to artists I didn't know such as Farmer Jason, Jill Hennessy,  and even Billy Bragg! I thank Mr. Mills for introducing me to those other musicians.

[Driver Nate]

"Farmer Jason" is actually Jason Ringenberg of Jason and the Scorchers, tour mates of R.E.M.'s dating back to their very early days.

[RSeabra]

And Jill Hennessy is quite an impressive woman, the lead actress in that now cancelled show Crossing Jordan. She acts, is beautiful, sings, plays, is quite tall, speaks in a low tone, has modeled... I mean, what more could you want from a girl?

[fanfan]

What a boring song, and I don't like the singer's voice, either. Horrible ending, too, everything is full of wrong pathos. Mike is the hightlight of this recording. I definitely won't listen to this song again.