Ella

Here is my last song, inspired from the poem "I love you" from Ella Wheeler Wilcox (from November 5, 1850 to October 30, 1919).

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet, born on a farm in Wisconsin, which is north-west of Chicago. Her best-known lines are probably these, from her poem Solitude: 'Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone'. But here is Ella being sweet telling about her love in erotic terms.

It is not clear if the song was written for a man or a woman...
I loved that poem, and while playing on my keyboard randomly found an interesting theme. That reminded me of the Depeche Mode atmosphere of the 80', and after a year of iteration, pauses, and personal experiences, I came to mature the song to what it is today. It took actually some time to find the right break with bridge and chorus, in good balance with the main theme, and add the extra instrument to make it complete. As a back ground to the theme , we can hear a progressive arpeggio-type melody, that I often like to fuse-in with other of my musics. Some friends find these to have an Asian touch. Let me know what you thing.

I never thought adding some bass and drums to the song because the theme has some sub-rhythm and is stereophonic, but also goes from low to high frequencies, giving a good span on the spectrum but also on the rhythmic space. But after my friend Olivier check the song within a car sound system, it was clear it was lacking good bass. I had to go back to work, finding the right addition to this and finally make this final version ready for release.

I find it funny to bring this almost forgotten poem from 19th century to now, jumping from the old traditional farmer background of Ella Wheeler Wilcox to an modern dancing club, somewhere on this earth, mixing the 20th century electronic music revolution, to the latest music technologies of the 21th century.

There is a video clip made in cooperation with the great English Marc Hamill bringing to visual reality the sensual, hot feeling but also sharing the dancing and exciting feeling, for both genders and all people. I'm thankful for he's very professional and reliable work. The clip can be seen here: https://youtu.be/f5K9Gqkm9io

Enjoy ! And let me know your feedback !