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March 10, 2010 @ 10:43 am
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Nashville/London…A Little Spring Update!
This spring seems to be all about travelling and writing with people from abroad. It started a couple of weeks ago I was in Nashville where I got to write with the great Keith Follese. We wrote a ballsy pop tune called “Bad Girls” that’s still stuck in my head! Then I got back to Toronto and had 2 marathon days of writing with the dynamic Thanh Bui who was in Canada visiting from Australia… turns out we had a lot in common and had a couple magical writing days that resulted in 2 anthemic pop tunes that really suit his new direction, as well as a collaboration between Thanh, myself, and Chad Doucette… giving us a song called “Half” that joins the growing list of songs I have collaborated on for Chad’s own upcoming recording this year. My travels continue next month, when I will be visiting my good friend James Bryan McCollum at his studio in London, England at the end of April and doing some writing sessions with the good folks over there.
Speaking of upcoming recordings, I’m looking ahead at this spring and am really excited that many of the people I’ve been writing with are now making their records… a few highlights: Julie C is in the studio with producer Ron Lopata at the helm, which is exciting because over the last year I’ve co-written 6 tunes with her towards this album (One of our songs called “Love Is Gone” -co-written with Julie C and Vince Degiorgio- has already been mixed and Julie has posted a sneak peek of it on Reverbnation).
| I also wrote a 3rd song with the talented young country/pop singer Leah Daniels, she’s heading into the studio to cut her record this spring. The song’s called “Uh Oh”… here’s a little midi demo that I made of it so you can hear it “in progress”. (Beware, midi does not really do justice to anything that falls into the country genre, but at least you get a pretty good idea of where the song could go!). There are midi demos of the other 2 tunes we wrote on my music page… it’s really fun stuff, so check them out! |
I’ve written 4 tunes with Matt McKenna and James Bloemendal for their new duo project called Ash & Bloom (check out their entertaining album-recording diary called The Ongoing Saga of Matt & James on Facebook), and jazz singer Shannon Butcher has just mixed and mastered her new album, which features a tune we wrote called “Simple Love”. Soon as I know the release date I’ll let you know!
I’m still doing my 20 Song Game days about once a month, which are proving both interesting and fruitful… for example, the starter “nugget” idea that became the “Bad Girls” song I referred to at the start of this update came out of one of those game days for me, and proceeded to turn into a cool song weeks later in Nashville! Another game day is coming up next week and I’m already anticipating it will be both fun and challenging… follow me on Twitter and I’ll let you know how it works out!
Happy Spring!
xo
K
ps: here’s a little pic of me and Emma-Lee finally getting together to watch/celebrate the episode of HBO Canada’s Bloodletting+Miraculous Cures that featured our song “Shot In The Dark”. Wine!
