This is how the tape sounds with no mastering or restoration plugins applied. Any request for uncompressed / lossless / whatever file must be addressed to Edde Edman, the real producer and owner of Feels Like a Wish. I am just the guy who kept a copy of the tape stored for 30 years.
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This is the lost tape of Fond My Mind and this is my version of the whole story:
About two weeks ago, some people started contacting me through social media, asking for information about a mysterious and unidentified song. I'm not sure how it got to me, but the story is that this song was performed on a radio in the early 90s. Someone recorded this radio broadcast at the time it was happening and years later published it on the internet.
From then on, a growing group of people, organized on forums such as Discord and Reddit, began to review the internet in search of information about this song. They say the search has been going on for over ten years, and the song could be over 30 years old.
All these people had was the recording of the radio broadcast, where the song appears with the beginning cut off by a transition sound effect. This broadcast was posted on KZfaq and the song was called "Fonf My Mind", as no one knew its real title.
By mere coincidence, I had contacted the author of this song back in the late 80s or early 90s, as we are both keyboardists and music producers in the same city. I even went to his studio once, and I remember seeing there a 4-track k7 tape recorder, a Yamaha SY77 synthesizer and another Technics synthesizer, perhaps. And through a mutual friend I got a copy of this mysterious song, which spent 30 years stored in a drawer in my studio until these people started looking for me and asking about it.
The real name of the song is Feels Like a Wish, from a project called Station K. The project was formed by producer Edde Edman, who at the time used the name Edde Walcan (or Valcan, I don't know for sure) and the singer of this song was a guy called André Nóbrega. I don't know if another tape exists with the entire song, uncut, so this might really be the only recording we'll ever see of it.
My name is William Paiva, I have nothing to do with the production of this song, I have no rights to it, but apparently I am the only one who has a complete recording of the song. The decision to release Feels Like a Wish officially rests solely with its author/producer: Edde Edman.
Technical notes:
The tape found is a Sony EF60 K7. The tape deck used was a Tascam Portastudio 424. The tape was digitized through the preamps of a MOTU UltraLite MK5 interface, at 24 bits and 48khz.
No audio processing was added so this video sounds as close as possible to the K7 tape.
The original audio tape is preserved.
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