Life in Sydney continues…the lack of any real need to have a website means updates (and indeed finishing the actual site) are pretty slow.
Anyway, some CV updates:
– Since “Come With Me” for Ricky Martin was released, I’ve worked with him twice more – for singles “Adrenalina”and his World Cup song “Vida”. Hopefully further Ricky sessions coming this year for his album.
– I got to record Alicia Keys twice, including for her duet with Pharrell on “I Know Who You Are”…which features on his G I R L album. And they remembered to credit me! which was nice.
– lots and lots of acoustic sessions with local Sony acts (including Samantha Jade, Taylor Henderson, Dami Im but also bands like Holy Holy and Tonight alive), and also international acts (Foxes, The 1975 amongst others). These sessions are initially for artist VEVO pages and also the Sony “Hargrave Lane” TV series currently being screened on GO! I believe, but have also been used as B-Sides on physical releases for Taylor, Dami, Nathaniel, and The Collective amongst others. Many of them are here on my Showreel playlist
– Talking of The Collective, I’ve recorded their current single “Burn the Bright Lights”, and I hope to be recording further songs with them. Other Sony Projects included recording Samantha Jade’s “Up” (official Socceroos World Cup song – that’s 2 World Cup songs this year!), and I also recorded and mixed the B-Side – a cover of INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart” with her live band.
– Outside of Sony, I’ve been working with a couple of very exciting independent bands. I recorded and mixed 2 singles for summery indie popsters High-tails, both of which got picked up by Triple J via their Unearthed website, and the 2nd of these, “Bending Over Backwards” got playlisted and was in the Top 20 most played tracks earlier this year. The EP is now finished, and will be released later this year. Have also been recording Edens March, a band from the Bloc Party/Coldplay template, and we’ve finished 2 songs with them (with a 3rd in the pipeline).
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– unsigned buzz band British band IYES asked me to mix a single for them – “Til Infiniti” ended up getting more than 100,000 plays (edit – make that nearly 400k!) on Soundcloud, featured on multiple blogs and even making it back over to Triple J in Australia! We’re slowly taking over…
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– lots of other exciting projects in the pipeline, partway along and still to be decided upon…
– oh, and I’ve now got a puppy. Find him on instagram – #sandybear.