Maressey Project Blog

A Ponified Tribute to the Music of The Smiths

[mlpmaressey]

Being Pinkie's older sister, she saw her abandoned into her dreary world, brighten it, but then begged her to eventually leave. In the end it was the best decision for Pinkie but it also left a lonely emptiness in Maude's life that she feels still. This track is part of a 2 part Pinkie Pie / Maude arc in theTwiluna Album!  

MaudeVocal by Fritzybeat https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCybhzNv4lLfKc1gQ09Cqx6g

Freewave the Music https://www.youtube.com/user/thefreewave

Art by tsuyukomiharu   https://www.deviantart.com/tsuyukomiharu/art/maud-pie-441602257

Thanks to everyone for completing this beautiful track! Well done! https://maressey.bandcamp.com/

This and ALL FOUR  Maressey albums are FREE (pay if you want). Any proceeds we make will pay for continued free credits for others.

[mlpmaressey]

[mlpmaressey]

[mlpmaressey]

Ok at some point I needed to think about what the Maressey album would look like and would it be just ONE? While the themes often change each week on the new release I was hoping we’d get to the character arcs where songs start telling stories of several ships, with each song telling a different chapter of that storyline over its course. The best place for this to happen is with the album releases so each album has a theme. Therefore I’ve proposed collecting the songs in 4 themed albums, with one for Rarijack, Flutterdash, Twiluna, and one a general bronies topics theme. Four just works for the amount of character themes involved and the progress so far on each. . The number indicates song progress. 5 is a completed song, 4 has an instrumental and a vocal with it in the mixing stage. 3’s often have a far along instrumental but are needing a vocal or further instrument work. 2’s or lower are very much a wip instrumental draft or perhaps have nothing yet if lower. Any song that is crossed out could have been part of the album if someone took charge and made the song but is otherwise not likely going to be attempted to make it just due to time constraints. They are non essential to album completion so we are likely skipping them. Can’t make every Maressey song into a reality.

This Charming Mare (Rarity’s Song) 5 Morte Mcadaver

Braeburn It Was Really Nothing (the Braemac song) 4.7 Jeff Burgess

Pretty Mares Make Graves (CheeriMac) 3.5 (checked out by Luna Jax)

The Mare With The Thorn In Her Side (The Rarijack Song) 4.7 Jeff Burgess

Colt Afraid (SweetieMash song) 3.5 (need m-f duet vocal, checked out by Simul and Bloo)

Panic (Hang the Dubstep Dj) 5 Andante Skie

Manehattan (Rarity’s Song) 3.5 (checked out by Jokeblue)

Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now (Coco Pommel’s Song) * 5 Zatslol

I Won’t Share You (Spike’s Song) 3.5 (checked out by Simul)

I Know It’s Over (Rarity’s Song) 4.5 Warbalist and Wife

Second Album (Flutterdash includes Scootaloo + Discord) 9 songs

Ask (The Flutterdash song) 5 Evdog and Starbreeis

Last Night I Dreamt That Somepony Loved Me (Scootaloo’s Song) 4.6 Evdog

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before (Dash’s Song) 4.6 Bloo

Still Ill (Dash’s Song) 3.5 (need vocal, checked out to Fallen Skies)

The Headmaster Ritual (The Flutter Abuse Song) * 4.6 Starbreeis

What Difference Does It Make? (Fluttercord) 3.5 (need f vocal, checked out by Starbreeis)

Chaos Lovers of the World (Discord’s Song) 3(checked out by Zatslol)

These Things Take Time (Scootadash) 3.5 (checked out to Kat Vwj)

Half a Pegasus (The Scootaloo Song) * 3.5 (need vocal, checked out by BlindSkyWatcher?)

Third Album (Twiluna Theme, Includes small Pinkie Pie arc, Celestia, and Trixie) 9 songs. Twiluna arc is needing the most attention but could be rescued quickly with vocalist help on Luna and Twi’s parts.

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Twi’s) 5 Zatslol

Luna in a Coma (Celestia’s Song) 5 Faux Synder

Bigmouth Strikes Again (Trixie’s Song) 5 SylverLining

Well I Wonder (TwiLuna Song) 3.5 (checked out by Nyx the Shield)

Stretch Out and Wait (Twiluna Song) * 0 (need vocal and musician)

Reel Around the Fountain (Twiluna) 3.5 Checked out to CorieJames)

Asleep (TwiLuna Song) ** 3.5 (checked out by Nyx The Shield)

Back to the Old House (Pinkie’s Song) 5 Zatslol

This Night Has Opened My Eyes (Maud’s Song) 3 (need f vocal)

Fourth Album (The Brony Album). This one is mainly about the fandom and from our pov. Likely may include some pony songs dealing with background characters that don’t fit well in the other 3 mane 6 album concepts. 10 songs

How Soon is Now? (tale of a shy brony) 5 Zatslol

Is It Really so Strange? (Bronycon Summer) 5 Morte Mcadaver

I Want The One I Can’t Have (The R34 Song) 3.5 (need m vocal)

Frankly Mr. Shankley (Becoming Popular) 3 (need m vocal)

You Just Haven’t Earned it Yet, Brony 2 (checked out Andante Skie)

Hand in Glove (The Cosplay Song) 3 (checked out to Bloo)

There is a Light That Never Goes Out (The End) 4.6 AdamThe3Walker

Some Mares are Bigger than Others (Plus Size) 4 Faux Synder

Bon Bon Take a Bow (LyraBon) 4.5 Sylverlining

The Death of a Drunken Dancer (Berry Punch’s Song) 2 (need vocal and guitarist)

Stuff that at this point will likely not be made: Unloveable (Derpy’s Song) 1 Meat is Murder (The Vegan Song) 1 That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore (Flutterpie Song) * 1 You’ve Got Everything Now (Trixie’s Song) * 1 You Handsome Devil (Cloudkicker’s Song) * 1 Unhappy Birthday (Golden Tiara & Applebloom) 0 Ponyville Ruffians (The Last Night of the Fair) 0 Big Mac Changeling Arc (prob won’t be able to complete sadly although initially planned as a trilogy) Queen (Chrysalis) is Dead Nowhere Fast (Pete the Morbid Changeling'sTrack) A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours (Pete the Changeling)

As always looking for musicians and definitely vocalists who want to take part and make these plans a reality. Contact Freewave if you’re interested.

[mlpmaressey]

Come see the missing songs if you want to hear what the songs NOT made for the album would have sounded like (originally) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN5JlX4G_Ps

[mlpmaressey]

What do you say? Should we finish that fourth Maressey album finally? Maybe by December we'll have the Twiluna album done....we'll see but want it to happen.  Sorry for the wait.

Adding an initial pun on the Pony Life with this track. Did we really end this long running series so we could do a Teen Titans wacky spinoff? Yikes.

This track has vocals by the amazing Faux Synder. Rest of the music by Freewave. The lyrics may be a bit old as we recorded it during the third season. Waddyoudo!? Based on the music by The Smiths of course.

Fauxsynder https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0vN91iUaRln5zF7UGMwttw Freewave https://www.youtube.com/user/thefreewave

Art by Tsaoshin and viwrastupr https://www.deviantart.com/tsaoshin/art/Collab-Faithful-Teacher-462701539 Thanks for permission long ago.

[mlpmaressey]

Might get this out by December. Been sitting at 90% completed for a long time. I think its time to get it done. All things come to an end.

[mlpmaressey]

Berry Punch's death by the bottle shows that even places like Ponyville often have neighbor avoiding neighbor. Are humans and ponies really that different?

From Maressey - The Brony Album https://maressey.bandcamp.com/album/the-brony-album Francis Vace vocals, Zatslol (intro + outro guitars), and Freewave (remainder of the music + the mixing)(and of course thanks to the original track by The Smiths).

Art by Raedrob (no longer on D.A.)

[mlpmaressey]

The humbling position of having to submit your work to an anonymous panel who is flooded with a multitude of submissions is a difficult thing. While we often blame the judges for our problems, we so rarely ask, have we as creators done enough to really merit any eventual success we ask for?

Not only vocals but all the instruments on this track were by Andante Skie https://www.youtube.com/user/AndanteSkie

Mixing by Maressey project leader Freewave https://www.youtube.com/user/thefreewave

And you can get this track off the newest album. It's free https://maressey.bandcamp.com/album/the-brony-album

Enjoy!

[mlpmaressey]

Equestria Daily: "A new track from Maressey, I Want The One I Can't Have features vocals from Zatslol and a strong instrumental from Johnny Mare. Whilst this kind of thing is always a bit of a touchy subject, I feel like this track approaches the subject matter pretty tastefully and with great production value, Zatslol's vocals especially shine strongly in this track. Make sure to check it out"

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/01/music-maressey-i-want-one-i-cant-have.html

[mlpmaressey]

"One of the coolest fandom music projects is back! Maressey is an ambitious project that aims to produce high quality pony-focused tributes to The Smiths. They've just released their 4th album, The Brony Album, which focuses on a lot of fandom related things, such as EQD, Bronycon, Rule 34 and Cosplay. This track, featuring amazing vocals from AdamTh3Walker, a strong instrumental from Johnny Mare and mixing from project-head Freewave, deals with the after effects of the eventual ending on the show, whenever it may be. Make sure to check it out below for a really strongly produced track about a poignant topic of conversation."~Equestria Daily

[mlpmaressey]

“I hope you enjoy the third of hopefully 4 Maressey albums. As you should know Maressey is a Ponified Tribute to the Music of The Smiths. Without them creating the original tracks this tribute or the music contained would not be possible. Their exploration of loneliness, sex, gender, love, and loss I felt could be translated into our own fimfiction of these characters and comment on ourselves. This album deals less with our inspirations (ponies) and more with all the aspects of the brony fandom itself and the weird and wonderful stories we have to tell. I have to thank quite a few people who have made an idea 3+ years ago into a realized 20+ person group project. Thanks to the wonderful people below who have helped throughout this project. They are all such incredibly talented and wonderful musicians and they have made this project all possible. I hope that people continue to support this project and those many musicians and artists involved.”~Freewave

https://maressey.bandcamp.com/album/the-brony-album

[mlpmaressey]

Once upon a time there was this nifty little project named Maressey.  It got out 2 underground cool indie rock pony inspired tribute albums but promised one or two more. After a few weeks of listening to old wip tracks and with a promise of some summer free time and a breath of self confidence I'd love to see if we could complete the Twilogy. Technically there’s enough tracks for the initial thought of 4 albums but best to aim for a large third album if we can’t get to all of them!

A lot of tracks are done that need to be a part of this and those that aren't have mostly completed instrumentals.  But it would be a shame to have 70-80% of a third album done and just not complete it or release it. So rather then keep in retirement, I'd like to get ‘er DONE this summer! Calling out to all Maressey alumni and anyone else vocally interested and capable. Maressey Project Assemble!

=============================== Vocalists needed for the instrumental tracks below: ===============================

I Want the One I Can’t Have (the clop song) Hand in Glove (the cosplay song) Frankly Mr Shankley (the brony musician song) =============================== Two Twiluna tracks possibly taken by Warbalist and his wife. But vocals are definitely needed for these instrumentals if interested. =============================== Well I Wonder Reel Around the Fountain

=============================== Currently In Progress =============================== Andante Skie doing You Just Haven’t Earned It Fritzy Beat doing vocal for This Night Has Opened My Eyes NyxtheShield remastering Asleep.wav (and otherwise complete) ....and a few small bits of remastering

If interested in helping on vocal duty please hit up Freewave on Skype! Cheers!!

~Freewave~

[mlpmaressey]

Rainbow Dash leaves for Cloudsdale to finally join the Wonderbolts, abandoning Fluttershy, Scootaloo, and her friends to pursue her lifelong dream. Scootaloo in desperation chases after her, but eventually finds herself lost and housed in a charity hostel in Cloudsdale. She is now a very long way from where she ever intended to be.

Andante Skie did the great vocals for this track. Thanks for helping on this track and being such a great friend! https://www.youtube.com/user/AndanteSkie

Music is by me. Freewave :)   https://www.youtube.com/user/thefreewave

Check out our blog on tumblr at http://mlpmaressey.tumblr.com/

The Album with all 9 tracks of the Flutterdash storyline is out now for free. Please leave a comment on the blog or the youtube if you've enjoyed the Maressey Project. http://maressey.blogspot.com/

The Awesome Artwork is by Violyrehttp://violyre.deviantart.com/art/Upon-Wings-of-Wood-470956883

[mlpmaressey]

 Maressey - The Flutterdash Album

“I hope you enjoy the second of hopefully 4 Maressey albums. As you should know Maressey is a Ponified Tribute to the Music of The Smiths. Without them creating the original tracks this tribute or the music contained would not be possible.  Their exploration of loneliness, sex, gender, love, and loss I felt could be translated into our own fimfiction of these characters and comment on ourselves.  We did try to do something a bit different with this tribute and that is to find an MLP theme in each album (within this story of Rarijack and Flutterdash) and the next, with albums that tell an interwoven storyline in each.

I have to thank quite a few people who have made an idea 3+ years ago into a realized 20+ person group project. Thanks to the wonderful people below who have helped throughout this project. They are all such incredibly talented and wonderful musicians and they have made this project all possible. I hope that people continue to support this project and those many musicians and artists involved.”~Freewave

http://maressey.blogspot.com/

[mlpmaressey]

Scootaloo is infatuated with Rainbow Dash, wanting to spend every moment with her idol. Rainbow Dash is bored of her bland relationship with Fluttershy and appreciates the devout attention. The unbalanced and unhealthy relationship is a hardship for the young pegasus. It's clear she cares so much more about Dash, but is not old enough, or ready, for a companionship that she desperately wants (and is not getting). Andante Skie did the great vocals for this track. Thanks for helping on this track and being such a great friend! https://www.youtube.com/user/AndanteSkie Music is by me. Freewave :)   https://www.youtube.com/user/thefreewave Check out our blog on tumblr at http://mlpmaressey.tumblr.com/ The Album with all 9 tracks of the Flutterdash storyline is out now for free. Please leave a comment on the blog or the youtube if you've enjoyed the Maressey Project. http://maressey.blogspot.com/ The Awesome Artwork is by SharpieBoss. Thanks so much for all you do!  http://sharpieboss.deviantart.com/art...

[mlpmaressey]

Discord has been freed of his prison by neutralizing the elements of Harmony through Fluttershy's failure to befriend him. He vows to begin his reign of chaos anew and with the help of other villains he seeks out. However, this time he might not even need to lift a finger for things to fall into place. As always it's originally a classic track by The Smiths

A massive thanks to long time contributer Zatslol for taking on the vocals of this track. He's been one of the vocal highlights of the project and been one of the most supportive of it. https://www.youtube.com/user/zatslol

Music is by me. Freewave :)  Everything came together nicely on this one. https://www.youtube.com/user/thefreewave

Check out our blog on tumblr at http://mlpmaressey.tumblr.com/

The Awesome Artwork is by The_Orator. Thanks so much! http://the-orator.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Another-Plot-Foiled-326480901

[mlpmaressey]

Maressey - What Difference Does It Make                                      

Celestia aims to reform the newly freed Discord with the help of the patient Fluttershy. However, things do not turn out as well as she planned. He quickly takes advantage of their friendship, tricking her to do things she wouldn't normally do, and poisoning her relationship with the bearers of the Elements of Harmony. As always it's originally a classic track by The Smiths

A massive thanks to Starbreeis for taking on the vocals of this track. i thought she did a wonderful job on this track and several others. She's fabulous! https://www.youtube.com/user/starbreeis

Music (guitars, bass, and drums) by Johnny Mare. Johnny helped kickoff this project by doing new guitar takes and music for many of our songs. His channel of Smiths covers is here. https://www.youtube.com/user/johnnymare

Mixing is by me. Freewave :) https://www.youtube.com/user/thefreewave

Check out our blog on tumblr at http://mlpmaressey.tumblr.com/

The Awesome Artwork is by Secret Stabby. Thanks so much.   http://secretstabby.tumblr.com/post/39030473114/cant-sleep-heard-of-the-rumored-upcoming