hey Chris Liepe here with new Queen rediscovered track face it alone originally recorded in 1988
I saw that this dropped Greece very recently and thought I I clicked on the video and I
was like I'm not gonna watch it I'm gonna watch it for the first time listen to it
for the first time on the channel and enjoy it with all of you guys so I haven't heard this
I'm really excited to hear this new to me and new to a lot of people track it's always great
to discover new Freddie Mercury that you know we haven't been able to be a part of in the past
I love Freddie Mercury's voice I've even done work with uh now A friend of mine Mark Martell who is
spreading Freddie Mercury's gospel all over the place with his amazing Freddie like voice
let's let's get into this let's watch this together
foreign
when something so near and dear to life explodes inside you feel your soul is set on fire
okay the first thing I have to say is it sounds absolutely incredible
it was mixed today using modern mixing techniques to hear Freddie's voice this
present and this up front to hear the full Fidelity of sound
is is chilling this is pretty amazing we have never heard Freddie Mercury in this
high quality of a sound at least I don't think I have listen to the sound quality when something so
deep and so far and wide falls down beside your cries can be can be so loud and clean
hear the the grit and passion in his voice
I've talked about this on lots of other Freddy songs lots of other Queen songs part of what
makes Freddie Mercury's voice so interesting is that he's changing his placement and his resonance
in ways that if if it were really anybody else or if you were just having a conversation with
someone would seem totally over the top the way he pronounces words the way he controls
Dynamics I mean you just heard on that last listen to that last section again
right there how he's your cries can be heard the trail of it's so extreme and so theatrical
it brings us into this emotional state because he is not a static performer
so many times as vocalists we we are in pursuit of our best tone or the best sound
or the the best way to approach a particular song Freddie's approach is approach it in all
ways with all emotions with all textures and that becomes his amazing tone so loud and clean
your life is your own you're in charge of yourself master of your home
you have to face it all along
there's a really good example of what I'm talking about face it all at all right it even sounds sort
of ridiculous when I'm doing it but that's okay if we can take inspiration from what Freddie
Mercury does even though we can't replicate his sound it will unlock all sorts of things in our
ability to communicate emotion with our own voices and then we can start making things our own I love
being inspired by his voice as a vocalist that's my favorite part about listening to Freddy foreign
I can't get over the Fidelity the the the full frequency just good sound of this recording
it's a testament to how the original tracks were recorded that they can sound this good
Harry you feel that rasp that placement is totally different than he did
at the end of that last section it is so Dynamic so diverse is burned alive
when something so deep and so far and wide this is a vowel thing so
he will take words that so and he'll actually add a syllable to this so so
so that vowel has been modified within this one word he's not doing that out of need
he's doing that out of extra expressiveness trademark Telltale Freddie Mercury technique
there's another one the clear clear like other great vocalists do this
too but he does it better than almost any other vocalist makes notes and words more
musical in the way he modifies his vowels alone you're in charge of
yourself a master of your home in the end in the end you have to face it all along
such incredible tone out of his voice
food has lost it's
lost it's closed foreign
I really like the production choices they had the the echoey voice in the
back his his main vocal is so upfront and present and dry and raw and I really like
that they did that they didn't cake it in Reverb and that left room for those those
more ancillary parts to have their own space in the mix really smart production Choice
it all
foreign
wow I'm gonna go listen to it again that was really incredible I'm super
excited for this box set when it comes out thanks for enjoying it with me thank you for
diving into some of the nuances once again in Freddie Mercury's amazing voice see for more