Monthly Archive for November, 2006

So it’s been a while and for the past few weeks, I’ve been con­cen­trat­ing some­thing fierce for my final exams; still one to go and a then I’ll be off for three months!

There’s four new songs in the pipeline but they’re tak­ing an unusu­ally long time to mix so I’m guess­ing there will be an influx of new songs pretty much soon.

More recently I’ve hit the record­ing stu­dios to record back­ing vocals for a Malaysian artist called Clif­ford, who was record­ing one of my songs for his album. Boy-o-boy did that give me a vocal work­out. Not only did they lower the key for the song, they wanted me to do the back­ing vocals in a chest voice right up there for the har­monies. Put a high required range plus approx­i­mately 600 takes means you’ll have a very tired voice after­wards. I ended up hav­ing to wait between loops to record the next track.

Con­sid­er­ing this is my first song sourced to an artist, I’m pretty excited and hang­ing for hav­ing a lis­ten to how things turn out! It’s inter­est­ing lis­ten­ing to how another per­son sings the song and how they inter­pret some­thing that you write.

By the way, if you’re won­der­ing who the guy in the photo is, that’s Cliff. He jumped in there to record some back­ing vocals too for the fun of it. I walked into the stu­dio think­ing the back­ing vocals wouldn’t take that long to record, we ended going from 7 o’clock to midnight.

So what next? Well I’m going to fin­ish up with these exams, then I’ll get back into fin­ish­ing off my album. We’ll need to orga­nize some photo shoots for the album and then I’m told they want me to start per­form­ing live gigs. We’ll see eh!

Speak­ing of which, I’ll need to give them a call to see how things are going. Have a good day everyone!