As a composer and producer working in a recording studio my work brings about situations where I connect with incredible and diverse people
Most recently I worked with Goodluck Music and Blackmotion Music on a colab they were involved in so I thought I'd share a little insight into the process.
Black Motion
Goodluck
After their recent signing to Ultra Music
Certain groups like to work with people like me who work behind the scenes in helping make the music happen. Well what are "People like me"?
I play a variety of musical instruments as well as run run recording studios, which means I have access to an array of instruments, synths, microphones etc.
This helps when trying to form the essence of the song or production, as sometimes, an idea of a track won't work without a real bass guitar or a real acoustic guitar, or even a trombone! Using virtual instruments can be amazing and works a lot of the time, but oftentimes a song really needs the inherent imperfections that come with having a human being play a real instrument.
Here are some pics of me playing bass and writing lyrics with singer, Juliet, from Goodluck.
Recently a colab between Goodluck and DJ Ganyani, which I was fortunate enough to work on, sat in the top 10 and top 20 on national radio in South Africa for several months. The track, titled "Fading", was a perfect storm of Pop melodies and Afrohouse rhythms and for me, was one of the stronger local tracks of 2017. I love the people that I'm working with at Goodluck. Its humbling to work with people that are authentic, driven, and are all about the hard work. As they say themselves:
"The harder I work, the luckier I get".
I love being one of the silent members on songs like this, and enjoying the rush of having people love your music without the stress of having to promote it, shoot music videos etc. Oh, speaking of music videos....Enjoy!
