Mixing Room

Friday, May 13, 2005

We actually finished the Singles album a few weeks ago ... but since we've been busy doing the Search for a Star in a million album , i was pleasantly surprised that they were doing an album launch at Dish. Thanks again to my wonderfull friend Jamie for the invites.
The album was produced by Civ Fontanilla for Star Records and features four artists in one album similar to the concept of the Solo Album series which featured new upcoming male singers in one album... this time it's the girls turn. We were hoping that it wouldn't end up being called Sola... the female version of Solo... now does that make sense?
Finally they've decided to call it Singles which features ... Maoui David, Marinel Santos, Karell Marquez and Aliya Parcs with four songs each for a total of 16 cuts on the Album.
I arranged one song for Karell and played guitars on a couple of songs as well.... besides mixing for the whole album itself.
Maoui had the fun and youth oriented songs... as Marinel had the ballads... Karell, did the alternative or Band sounding songs... and Aliya of course had the Acoustic element in her choice of songs.
In working with an album concept like this ... i had to treat each artist as individual as their musical styles suggested... kinda like working on four short albums compiled into one. I ended up mixing songs by the same artist first rather that doing one song after the other... since we had to keep one artist songs sounding different from the next. It would be interesting to see which one among them would actually be the first to come up with a solo album. :-) but that would be a different story.

--MXRR at 3:31 AM
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