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Current mood:  creative Category: Music
In the summer of 2006 I had this crazy idea that I could complete a full length album, press, and duplicate it in two months. At the time my experience with composition merely consisted of writing for a quartet (two guitars, bass, & drums). I then made a swift transition to arranging tunes for a three-piece horn section, two guitars, keyboards, and violin. Being the knowledge-hungry woman I am, my project got pushed back to ensure that I could arrange the music to best of my ability. To conserve paper I utilized the eraser and continued making modifications.
To confirm any confusion on my recent bulletin posts, Zen Recording is the THIRD studio I've been in for this project. First, Dan O'Brien with Hurricane Pass Recording guided me with pre-production stuff. We worked well together in improving the rhythm guitar parts and talking about "all the little things" that make a top of the line track. Dan is certainly one of my musical mentors. Next, I recorded all of the rhythm guitar tracks, some vocals and drums in a fantastic studio, Atomic Audio Recording, which was much closer to my house and therefore more accessible. Mark is an amazing engineer and musician and I had full intention of completing the project at his studio (Atomic Audio). However, I was searching for enough gigs to buy studio time and pay the musicians. In a drought of financial instability, opportunity rained on me!
I am pleased to have signed this month of October, 2006 to Rising Jupiter, a talent agency, management and promotion company created by Ted Freed. Ted is an incredibly inspiring man with passion for music and an intense drive to bring success to talented and dedicated musicians. As he continues to shower me with opportunity, advice, inspiration, and life, I feel blessed to have met him and we continue on our path to discovery. Since Ted is connected to many wonderful musicians, engineers, and producers in the music industry, he happens to know one man who is all three in one: Steve Connley with Zen Recording Studios. We are now working on getting all of the best musicians possible to lay down the remaining tracks to finally finish this album so I can get on the road, experience different cultures, be inspired, and share my music with the world!
While in the process of recording this album I've composed enough songs for another full length CD...not to mention all of the older ones that were only recorded on my four-track for copyright purposes. One disc at a time!!! Hang tight... I'm just as anxious as you are to get the music in my head onto a CD as a full picture, glazed and framed. I shall take nothing less than my best :)
In the meantime, feel free to check out live tracks and tunes from the last album, "Peace Is" on the websites listed below. I encourage you to burn my CDs for friends but please remind them that, like Ani DiFranco of Righteous Babe Records states, "Unauthorized duplication, though sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing." I love you all!
Peace, Love, Music
Christie Lenee
www.christielenee.com
www.myspace.com/christieleneemusic
www.myspace.com/orenda
6:02 PM
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