Working With Singers: Cthulhu
4. Do not slack off attention When you’re the music producer, it’s up to you to have the bird’s eye view on the recording session. The singer’s job is to sing and emote and become one with the music. Now […]
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Working With Singers: Subduction
2. Work with what you’ve got and Adapt As Necessary I made Subduction while still in New York. A woman and a guy had won the green card lottery and thus arrived in the states with nowhere to stay. They stayed […]
Working With Singers: 17
So for the next couple days i’m going to talk a bit about working with singers and play you an example a day of how a particular track, method or relationship worked out. You’re a composer. You need vocals. How […]
The Chatterlaine Trilogy
Today we shall feature a little music. Moody and mellow for your melancholy Monday. Back when i lived in NY i was working on a project and ended up with an extra track that i was unable to use at […]
Agnus Dei
Here is another song i wrote a little while ago that exists in the same vein as the falsetto song will. I’m not saying the 2 will sound similar or that the new track will be in any way derived from this […]
The Little Mermaid: Waiting For The Sunrise
Today we are going to feature a story telling track from a very early album of mine, the 2nd one done under Mocha Lab. I wrote an album which tells the story of the original Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson because the […]
Cthulhu: The Funksical
Today we’re going to listen to an immensely fun album i did rather recently which tells a completely ridiculous story featuring some classic H.P. Lovecraft monsters. It pretty much speaks for itself. The story arch occurs over the first 8 […]
Subduction
Today we’re going to listen to some songs from a dreamy, downtempo album i made (as Mocha Lab of course) called Subduction. (this first one is My Dream Of You, but some awesome person i don’t know took the song […]
The Subculture Song
I’m actually done musically with Act 3 and now working on vocal melodies and lyrics. I, of course, am not actually signing any of the material, but i sing all the lines on the scratch tracks so the vocalists will […]
Mocha Lab: Stories in Music
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce19ewmzj8c] My first big record obsession was when i was a toddler. I had a series of “Show And Tell” records. You put them on a special little record player and they tell you stories which i listened to in […]