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March 2016

March Madness:-)

Well, not really madness, but…

A great week was had working with some fine artists and writers… I got to spend two days working with longtime friend and songwriter Noel Cohen this week. We tracked 2 new songs he’s been working on with a few other of our favorite writers. The latter track is a really fun latin track sung as a duet in Spanish by the multi talented Andres Quintero and a new singer I just met named Daiana Segovia. Daiana just lent her wonderful voice to the Netflix show Marco Polo and Andres can been seen on Law and Order from time to time as an actor:-) Speaking of acting, you must check out Noel’s son Emory Cohen in the film Brooklyn. He has an amazing lead role and completely delivers! Watch his career as I believe it’s about to go mental:-)

I completed the 5th and final track for miss Laine who will be visiting the studio in a week to do vocals and finish the mixes. I’m looking forward to digging in for a few days with her and making something wonderful.

I met up with the talented young Haley Warner yesterday once again. We had a great day in the studio and were able to record and shoot a bit of live video of her performance in the vocal booth for youtube which turned out looking and sounding quite nice:-) Always fun to work with her. I look forward to more projects and digging into deeper production with her in the future.

This week also was the long awaited release of the first single of my good friend and long term client artist Monica Sharma. I’m so happy and proud of Monica for all the work she’s been putting in. I’m delighted to see her fanbase growing at such a fast pace and her artistic career really beginning with full force!

Lastly, I head into the studio tomorrow for a meeting with a very young new artist who sounds absolutely amazing. She has an amazing full voice with a surprising low range for her age. Her writing is wise beyond her years as well and she has what I believe is a fantastic support team in place. She comes to me by one of my favorite people and musicians on the planet Mr. JJ Appleton (check out JJ on the Jewel tour now). We will meet to discuss the overall production and best ways to move forward and make some inspired new music together!

Stay young. Stay real…

–
M

Weekly Recap

Good afternoon!
Wrapping up another week in paradise:-) It’s been a fun and productive batch of days…

This week produced another track for young artist Laine coming to visit me in NYC from across the Atlantic. So far I’ve finished 3 tracks and have at least one or two more to go for this month’s collaboration.

I had the good fortune of mixing a track featuring a wonderfully talented singer and new country artist named Jenny Tolman from Nashville. She is truly gifted and really worth a good listen. Great things are set in motion to happen for this artist.

A fresh new inspired gem was written this week with team Odiseas featuring myself, Kathy Sommer, Michael Guerrero and Odiseas himself of course:-) We’re really proud of this one and are looking very forward to start production next week! The guys are off to LA later in the month to wrap up some paperwork and get this amazing team moving beautifully forward…

Music for the virtual reality branding campaign is being presented to the client this afternoon. The agency loved the demo so I hope to move the project ahead and start tracking brass in the coming weeks!

I got a little “out of studio” time in last night (rare. very rare:-). I had the joy of catching Melissa Otero live at the Cutting Room featuring young Adiel Torres. They both sounded amazing. Melissa’s voice is a true thing of beauty and power. Few can do it the way she does right now, and at 12 years old Adiel looked and sounded like he’s been doing it forever. He’s a natural entertainer and a pleasure to hear and see. It was a great night. I’m looking forward to having them both back in the studio in the coming months for some amazing music.

Time now to prep for a fun photo shoot tomorrow morning at Brooklyn Bowl! Kathy Sommer and I are going to be taking photos for the new website for our production team ALCHEMY. You will likely be seeing some pics as early as next week from the shoot. We may even get 10 frames in!
All fun. All the time…

Living the dream-
Matt