Here we are!

 

A great and productive session ended with three of our artists dropping by and we couldn't miss the photo op!



L-R: Aimée Mutambo, Chris Taylor, Tommy Eye, Sanjay Rajo, Ebonie G

 

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What's going on?

Well it's time for a little update.

First up, did anyone miss that we did this...

Everyone still on board?!

OK, and more recently, since mid-August we've been working hard on new singles for Byron Gold and Enrico Delves, as well as recording new tunes for Aimée and Ebonie G. Tommy's album has been moving forward as well - we've been finishing up mixes as well as recording some of the remaining collabs, which are well exciting.

Phew! Essentially everyone we work with has been through the doors in the last month and this has certainly been one of the most busy and productive times yet for us.

Here's me looking stressed and frantically busy.

And Looking ahead, we've got worship projects coming up with Alun Leppitt and NauJavan in Oct/Nov and more new writing to get done as well.

Sweet times!

Chris

 

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Updating you all

So, dear reader(s), time for a little update. As I sit writing this, Enrico and Byron are currently improvising ideas for and wrangling over an ad lib bridge line for Enrico's forthcoming single, with Sanj patiently wading through the ideas to capture the best moments. It's great to see too great singers pushing each other to be better. Occasionally, I volunteer a "yeah" or a "no", but times like this, you mostly just get out of the way and let the magic happen around you. That is of course, providing they don't eat each other, or something...

Last week, we spent the whole week recording with Aimée Mutambo, and two great songs are now well under way with her. The vibe is poppy but with a strong live undercurrent so there's plenty of real stuff going on whilst trying to keep things sounding tight for radio. We've been enjoying layering up acoustic kit with programmed stuff and getting some excellent blends. More work to commence hopefully week after next and then you may well find sneak previews over on her blog.

Also making a welcome return to Purple Squares on Friday is Ebonie G, word! Can't wait to write some more awesome tunes with her, gonna be great!

Til next time...

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Happy new year everyone!

Happy new year and all that to you, avid Hi-Sonorous reader(s). Hope you had a good one. So, what does the new year look like for you? Same old, same old, or major changes in store? Or is it the middle one...inevitable change, but the who, what and when - total mysteries?

 

2012 is shaping up to be a make or break year for Sanj and I. We've got a bunch of really amazing things happening in the next few months - the release of Tommy Eye's single and later on, the album, plus some really cool collabs with Byron, Ebonie, Aimée and others tbc! It all adds up to some really cool music that really could go places.... or it could not.

 

And that's the pinch. After four years casting our net wide and making things work by having loads of different fingers in loads of different pies, now we're kinda simplifying things - whittling it all down to a handful of projects that we really believe in and want to see go places.It's a different attitude for us, to be sure. Perhaps in many ways, it's a much more classic approach - write loads, work hard, and just keep doing what you do, until you get a break.

 

It's certainly scary ground for control freaks like us to leave so much to chance (or fate, God, luck, whatever term you're most comfortable with).But the nice thing is that I think we both feel much freer as a result. Freer to write what we want, and freer to make choices for artistic reasons rather than financial ones. And there's a weird confidence you get from letting go of the reigns a little bit.

 

So, who knows what this will all look like in another year's time? Not the same, that's for certain. But beyond that, we'll just have to wait and see!

 

Chris