Music
Ehren Stowers ft. Emi Jarvi – Predator – Greek radio likes this one, too
Just got word that Greek radio station, Viva FM, has one of my upcoming tracks listed as number 9 on their ‘HOT SHOT – Trance anthems not to be missed’ chart. Always nice news to get!
It’s called ‘Ehren Stowers feat. Emi Jarvi – Predator’ and it’s due to be released on 11th of April 2011. I’ll post a link when it’s available if anyone wants to buy a copy – or you can hear a preview on the Alter Ego Records website.
WOOHOO!
Forgive & Forget feat. Emi – On the Romanian radio charts
Forgive and Forget feat. Emi has been making the rounds and it’s currently number 37 on Romanian Radio. Thanks to Galati Radio (and all the people in Galati, Romania) for the lurve :)
Forgive & Forget feat. Emi – Russian radio seems to like it, too
Russian radio station, KISS FM has Forgive & forget at number 29 in their top 40 charts. What a freakin’ excellent way to start the day!
http://www.kissfm.ua/v3/chart/2/
Forgive and Forget feat. Emi #29 on the top 40 Kiss FM charts
Forgive & Forget feat. Emi – Greek radio seems to like it :)
A trance track I helped write and record was released last week for digital download. Stuart Millar brought me in to write the lyrics and vocal melody - Forgive & Forget feat. Emi (by Stuart Millar).
A radio station picked it up in Greece and marked as one of their ‘Top 10 hot trance anthems to watch’ last week. This week it’s number 20 in their trance charts – huzzah!
It’s not exactly taking over the world, but it’s a little chunk of joy and I’ll take it!
The most productive day of all time. Now I’m hyper.
Yesterday was the most Productive. Day. Ever. I was in the studio and ready to go by just after 9. So began the sessions!
Session 1 – rock
I started with a epic-rock type track (that’ll wake you up). Usually people send across a scratch vocal track that I learn by ear, then I arrange the harmonies by ear, too. But I was provided with sheet music which was cool. I don’t have much cause to read music anymore – felt good to stretch the sight-reading muscles…
Session 2 – dance
Then on to the third of a three song dance project. I’m writing and singing the lyrics and melody for three singles due to be released in 2010. I’m really enjoying this project, actually – getting great feedback from the guy I’m working with. It’s always a pleasure to work with someone with good attention to detail. It usually results in a shiny finished product – bring it on!
Admin :)
Half way through the dance session, I knew I needed to warm up my chest voice to do the chorus justice. So I started warming up. And doing some admin.
While I was warming up I did some hunting for some alternate vocal takes that a Bristol-based song-writer emailed me about. We worked on a HUGE track a couple of weeks ago (vocal tracks everywhere! Double tracking! Scat solos! Harmonies! Computers struggle to cope! But it did cope…). He had asked for some alternate takes, so I did some hunting and found them.
Session 2 – resumed
Then back to the mic and back to the chorus. It’s not like the vocals are HUGE, y’know? They needed to be kind of flirty and come-hither. But it was just high enough in my chest voice that it sounded more heavy-lifting than come-hither, so I made sure to warm up to a major-third above the highest chorus note and it sorted it right out. Worked a treat…
Session 3 – pop
Pop-tastic! Session 3 was all about pop vocals and F.A.T. vocal harmonies (one of my true loves in this world). Another freakin’ FUN session because it was all about playing with different vocal textures and adding little riffs. Another wailing chorus, too – always feels good to rip it open.
Double tracking (triple tracking, actually), 6 layers of double-tracked harmony for the chorus, some ‘yeah’s in there somewhere. Good stuff…
Session 4 – charity project
By the end of these three session I felt completely on fire and I didn’t want to stop singing. So I opened up a project for the charity album I’m working on for Kids Uganda. It’s an improvised version of the song ‘Be Thou My Vision’ and it was cool to play around with such a traditional and well-know song.
I only did two takes before I sent it across to get feedback – this is one of those tracks that can’t be hammered or it will SOUND hammered. Au naturale, all the way.
I’m still fired up from yesterday’s insane productivity. I also heard back from two fellow vocalists that I’m outsourcing some work to – both of them are ridiculously talented, so I’m glad things are moving forward.
GOOD day… goodgoodgood.
Back into the studio – at last! Happiness!
Having a sore throat when session vocal work is lined up is bad news. But all cash-earning aside, it’s just down-right bad for morale. I’m lucky that I don’t get sore throats often, I’m more a sinus infection kind of girl (aren’t you glad you know that now?). But it makes it obvious that I sing or talk pretty much constantly (my poor poor man-friend…). Having a sore throat completely throws me and my usual steady stream of sound.
Anyway, I had my first night of singing (carefully) tonight and all seems well. This means that tomorrow I’m back in the studio and back in business!
And THAT means one thing – JOY :)
There’s 7 projects that need sorting out, starting with some killer dance tracks for a producer in San Francisco. I don’t know when they’re due for release other than sometime in 2010 – but I’m psyched about them so I’ll post updates here.
Holy crazy, I’m on a Ministry of Sound release
I tweeted about this awhile ago, but I thought I’d write a mini blog about the details. I don’t know HOW I missed this while it was happening, but I’m still pretty fired up about it…
One of the dance tracks I wrote and recorded the vocals for has landed a spot on a Minstry of Sound compilation. ’The Mash Up Mix (2009)‘ sports names like Groove Armada, Fat Boy Slim and… uh… me.
The excitement emanating from my face when I found out could have powered a small city for a week.
I want to say a big ‘thanks’ to Marcos for asking me to collaborate with him on this track.
Check it out if you’re into the dance scene :)