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Mel Vondrau

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Mel is a powerful and sensitive performer, her voice is distinctive and her songs are written and delivered straight from the heart. real editor best profile tools real editor best profile tools
Songs For Maybelle
Available Now at Itunes .
About The Album
Songs for Maybelle was recorded in two days! Nine of the songs were all done on the 4th March 2009, little Maybelle was born the same day! Maybelle is the grandaughter of my partner and I saw it fitting to name the album of songs in honour of her special day she chose to join us.
All the songs are cover versions of songs which I was watching the videos of on our BTVision Player the week before we recorded. I liked them but felt that I wanted to record the songs purely as vocal and piano versions. I also wanted to record them in "one take" from start to finish. Paul Higgs is a pianist/producer who was the only person I felt would understand what I wanted to achieve with this recording. We worked well together and within our two week remit (one day per week) of recording, the job was complete!
I do hope you enjoy listening to these songs, we certainly enjoyed recording them and hope to work on more projects of this nature in the future.
Track Listing:
1. Life in Technicolor
2. Chasing Cars
3. Use Somebody
4. Stop and Stare
5. Rule the World
6. Greatest Day
7. You're Beautiful
8. If You're Not the One
9. Every Breath You Take
10. The Fear
Songs For Maybelle is available to buy now from
Albums
:: Infinity ::
:: Bittersweet And Blue ::
:: Show Me How ::
:: Nights Alone ::

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Member Since: 12/03/2006
Band Website: www.vondrau.com
Record Label: www.vondrau.com

My Blog

Listening to Nerina Pallot’s Sofia

Just wondering how surreal life can be.  You seem to feel comfortable in one place and then - Whoom! - you're in another and everything has changed. A few months ago I thought I'd live happily by...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:49:00 GMT

The Fat Controllers House

Hannah-Jane and I are moving to a gorgeous little bungalow which was once the Station Master's Office - we call it the "Fat Controller's House" (he of Thomas the Tank Engine).  It's absolutely cu...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:46:00 GMT

Modelling Maternity Wear for Charles and Patricia Lester Couture

www.charles-patricia-lester.co.uk/summer-sale.html Did a shoot up at the Lesters' in Wales two weeks ago - Steve Peake took the wonderful pics and it looks like they'll not only be used on the Lester ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:23:00 GMT

Mavista Luxury Images Magazine

Have a double page spread in the second edition of Mavista Images Magazine.  Here's the link:  now online at www.mavista.co.uk It wasn't an article about music but a piece on what it was l...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:31:00 GMT

Wagamama Salad Dressing

My partner, Mike, isn't keen on eating at Wagamama's but I am addicted to their salads (and it's purely because of the salad dressing!).  So, I asked my "Culinary Advisor (aka - Best Friend ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:15:00 GMT

Lost Mail finds its way to another Myspacer!

I received a message from a young lass on Myspace saying that she's received some CD's with photos of me and she's not sure why!  Mystery?  Well, the plot thickens!  A few weeks back I...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:15:00 GMT

"Finger Trouble" Deleting all 770 emails in my inbox whilst using Mail2Web.com - Ouch

Well, today, I was working through my emails as I hadn't checked my inbox for four weeks at best - scandalous and so unlike me - ahem!  (970 of them and mostly spam) when i t...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:29:00 GMT