"GREATEST" video released!

UCV2 RELEASED ALONG WITH "GREATEST" SINGLE!!!

"UCV2" has been released with my latest single, "Greatest."

UCV2 Studio Update #5

Album is finished and ready for release.    The release has been moved up to May 25, 2012 at midnight (20 minutes from now).   I've recorded so many extra tracks that I realize that I am infact writing a new record.

UCV2 Studio Update #4

today was the last day in the recording studio.   recorded 2 new songs, "happy here" and "make out with me."   two very different songs.   over the next week i'll finish up the artwork and final tracklisting and which new songs make it in...

this has been a fun project to work on to reimagine and reinvent all of these songs and record a few new ones.

UCV2 Studio Update #3

all songs are completed for this project!    I'm going to take a couple days vacation from it and then re-visit and see if i need any more changes.    re-recorded 'greatest' today and i believe i have the final version.   i'll be working on the video in the next few weeks and the single artwork and a couple changes to the album artwork.   but for now the collection is complete.   a very experimental project and i'm in autotunes overdrive.   'greatest' does not have any autotune except the backing vocals which are very faint in the distance so that's kind of interesting.

UCV2 Studio Update #2

have all of the vocal tracks down for the collection.    the album artwork might need a bit of tweaking.   i am re-doing some of the music for the record but i do have a final tracklist to reveal!

1. great big world
2. watercolors
3. the one that won't go down
4. no more love
5. trains
6. holy water
7. hotel song (dance mix)
8. brooklyn cowboy
9. what a difference a year makes (2012)
10. alien love song
11. alijah
12. 3 wishes (extended version)
13. we come from light
14. flowers
15. beat (igb version)
16. greatest

a friend and i did a photoshoot together in downtown, sacramento and the back cover features one from that set.     anyway, that's enough for now.    i think it's interesting to see these new versions and a LOT more work than i had intended but i'm glad i'm doing it!

UCV2 Studio Update #1

This has turned into quite the project.   I already shared the version of "holy water" that will be on the record.    I am doing all new versions of songs since the last collection which dropped in 93.   firstly, tough to pick which songs make the cut and which don't.   secondly... redoing vocals and musical tracks on all of them has turned into a pretty serious undertaking.

relying pretty heavily on an autotunes prog for this project.   i admit, it's a little ridiculous but a pretty cool sound effect just the same.  i've got enough records without any vocal manipulation so what the hell, right?

there is (so far) one new song on the collection called... get this... (wait for it) "Greatest."   (get it?  greatest hits.. hehehe)   actually, it's a very pretty piano ballad and i'm pretty sure it will be the single from the record.

over some orange soda and vodka tonight i found an online collage maker and added the 9 album covers (2 excluded were 'remixxit' and 'vault pt 2').   it looks pretty decent.  i'm happy with it so far.   i guess that's all for now.   i need a serious break from the studio for a few days.   focus on work and school and come back fresh to this in a few days....

it's coming along pretty quick.   i expect an early june release.  no later than june 12.

STARS!

The latest release from the "Silence" record is "Stars."  It contains a poem written by my mom called "My Version."   A video may follow, but for now here it is in all it's acoustic campfire lullaby greatness. Haha.    

"Everything we lost in the fire, everything we tried to keep."

UPDATES...

finished the single artwork for 'stars' which will be the next single.   also, i did the video edit today which just cuts off the last 45 or so seconds of instrumental fade out of the song.   artwork for the single is by allison rodriguez and was taken at the coffee garden open mic night on May 3rd 2012 in sacramento.   A possible video is to come and maybe a remix.   The release date for the single SHOULD be may 11.

the song is pretty special to me and contains a poem called "my life" that was written by my mom.