Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Petra Haden - Acappella 3: The Beautiful Ones (2017)

Here's the third of my four albums made from Petra Haden's YouTube videos. Never heard of Petra Haden? Don't worry about it. In short, she's got an excellent voice and she multitracks like crazy to make herself a one-person Beach Boys, performing entirely acappella versions of an interesting variety of songs.

On this album, about half of the songs are famous songs with lyrics, such as "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden, "Maniac" from Flashdance, and "Going to California" by Led Zeppelin. The other half are originally instrumental songs that sound great done with nothing but voices, such as the theme to the Taxi TV show.

If you haven't checked out any of the albums in this series, what are you waiting for?

01 Rebel without a Cause [Main Title] (Petra Haden)
02 Going to California (Petra Haden)
03 Law and Order Theme (Petra Haden)
04 Angela [Theme from Taxi] (Petra Haden)
05 Sometimes It Snows in April (Petra Haden)
06 Whatever Was Arranged (Petra Haden)
07 Maniac (Petra Haden)
08 Every Breath You Take (Petra Haden)
09 I Burn for You (Petra Haden)
10 The Beautiful Ones (Petra Haden)
11 Black Hole Sun (Petra Haden)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15634867/PetraH_2017_Acapella3TheBeautiflOnes_atse.zip.html

I made the cover art using a screenshot from an image Haden put in one of her YouTube videos. I have no idea where the image comes from, but I think it's a fun way to illustrate acappella music.

6 comments:

  1. Many thanks for all the fine music from Petra Haden, daughter of the late great jazz bassist Charlie Haden (and sister-in-law of actor/musician Jack Black!). Check out the videos of performances she did with guitar whiz Bill Frisell, e.g. the concert from Lincoln Center in NYC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifr8IowlQIM

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  2. its been a few months since volume 3 , is volume 4 due soon?

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    1. Shoot! I never released volume 4? I thought I did. I'll get on that right away. Thanks for the reminder.

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  3. Thanks for this - would love reuploads of the other Petra Hayden links though, they're all dead.

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    1. How did all those dead links happen? Thanks for pointing that out. I just fixed them.

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