Mike de Velta

Australian Blues, Folk and Roots Artist

Pretty White Lies

Dear friends,
Well when the spirit moves, it moves and I’m so happy to introduce yet another song this week. This one I have called, Pretty White Lies, a powerful and emotional ballad.
In fact I actually got all mushy producing this one and cried tears of joy in having felt I had really succeeded in producing something deep and real. This will go down as one of my better works.

Please share it if you like it too :)

Thank you so much for you time.

Mike de Velta

Pretty White Lies
©2010 Mike de velta

Oh come on darling
come sit right down
come by my side I know you hunger
for the love we need
like the air we breath
let’s make a lil time for each other

but here comes that that pain again
I’m cryin and I don’t know when
but you stopped loving me
closed your eyes so you couldn’t see
with careful words you’ve bled to me
those pretty white lies

I didn’t let it show
but this hurt you gotta know
burns a fire deep inside me
This guy who’s come along
does he sing you another song
does he lie you down and hold your hand
smile like me, does he understand.

But here comes that that pain again
I’m cryin and I don’t know when
you stopped loving me
closed your eyes so you wouldn’t see
with careful words you bled to me
those pretty white lies

Here comes that that pain again
I’m cryin and I don’t know when
you stopped loving me
closed your eyes so you wouldn’t see
with careful words you bled to me
those pretty white…

Lies…
Lies,
pretty white lies (repeat)

To him who has Ears and the home recording revolution.

I recorded my first 2 releases in a “professional” studio with extortionate fees to match and was only ever really 70% satisfied with the results. Back then the idea of recording on your own gear was just out of reach of the average home consumer just through the sheer expense of it all. For the price of a professional analog to digital converter you could buy yourself a decent car! But how times have changed amidst our current technological revolution, home studios have now become a phenomenal success with many big studios now closing their doors.

It’s been about 3 years now since I bit the bullet, researched like hell and buried my head in every article, book or magazine I could find to go about my vision of creating a home studio. The outcome?
Complete autonomy and creative freedom! Every song snippet, idea, guitar rift, or some weird flurry of ad lib vocals at 2am in the morning is all captured here through these microphones. They are in a sense my “dream catchers”.
I now possess hundreds of burgeoning songs in various degrees of completion all residing on my hard drives just waiting for me to recall them in exactly the same fashion that I’d left them say eighteen months prior. Oh what joy! What a revelation! This is the degree of immediacy and recall that every artist deserves. Autonomy and freedom!

For me personally the idea of booking a studio now in the hope of pulling that EP off in say 3 or 4 days is absurd. My belief is a professional recording studio will only benefit you if you can really afford the the time. For example ,I am happy to spend several hours just mixing the drum kit, or meticulously editing vocal lines to the n’th degree, at $800 a day you are unlikely to pursue that path unless you are a very wealthy or supported by a large record label.

Sure, while I admit I was fraught with fear on this initial expedition into the unknown land of music production it is now paying dividends. Write, record, mix-master, upload, distribute, done! Next! The work flow is established.

My last album “Frontline” took me about 12 months to write and record and boy was that difficult, my first self produced project. Yes I admit at times it was stressful not achieving the results I wanted with L plates on my back but persistence paid off I do believe I am achieving some great results.
Do I have lots to learn? Yeh sure! But man, what a trip! This is the real deal.

Yes home recording is definitely a viable and worthwhile option.

To him who has ears let them hear.

Mike de Velta

All these words

I’ve probably spent a year on this track and it finally came together when I considered using a 12 string guitar to really tighten up the rhythm section. I think this one gelled pretty well. It was recorded in my home studio in a very small bedroom but using some pretty nice hardware.
Thanks to Dean Wuksta for his awesome drumming.



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Voted Best Blues Artist of 2011 by Global Thunda Network, Mike De Velta's intoxicating compositions 
and performances are constantly on the move. A rich showcase of modern delta, slide and piedmont 
blues expressed with a hint of the Eastern through the shimmering and delightful tones of lap slide, resonator and acoustic guitars.

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