Remixes of the track 'Celebrate' by NOTOPIA, featuring Peter Hammill.
In 2017 NOTOPIA released their excellent "Celebrating Life" album. You can find the original album here:
music.mennigmann.com/album/celebrating-life
During the following summer, Marc Mennigmann of NOTOPIA announced a competition for people to remix the track "Celebrate" (featuring Peter Hammill on vocals) here:
music.mennigmann.com/album/celebrate-remix-contest
In fact, the competiton didn't reach fruition, and no winners were announced, so it sat, abandoned, for over a year. Then, it became apparent that contributors were keen to share their mixes and Mikayel Abazyan had the good sense to approach Marc with the request that we could release our labours. Marc kindly agreed, with the proviso that the remixers would make their versions free and that due credit would be made to NOTOPIA, which is entirely reasonable. A large tip of the hat to Mikayel for asking, and to Marc for allowing these mixes to be heard.
I should also guide you to Mikayel's own page where there's another excellent remix available. 'The Levon Hakhverdyan Mix' can be found here:
mikayelabazyan.bandcamp.com/track/celebrate-the-levon-hakhverdyan-mix
Lastly, I am aware of two more remixes, available on Soundcloud, both by Jon Michael Rauch, that you can find on his page here:
soundcloud.com/jon-michael-rauch
Celebrate - Lyrics by Peter Hammill
And what you had
and what you lacked:
the background noise,
the slow attack,
the echo chamber in reverse,
the repercussions of your voice...
oh lay down all your care and strife
in celebration of the life.
Now run into deceleration,
all due acclaim's an ebbing tide.
Acknowledging the celebration
in due course,
here's your goodbye.
NOTOPIA are:
Peter Alexius (guitar)
Marc Mennigmann (keys)
Sven Kosakowski (drums)
Mike Keneally (guitar)
Jaan Wessman (bass)
featuring Peter Hammill (vocals)
released February 1, 2020
Remixed by Prawnshocker