A few years back Michele and I released a CD entitled "Fade." The songs were good - really good, in most cases - and her vocal performance was absolutely brilliant. But the truth is that the album was not well promoted, much less heard by many, and more importantly, as the producer, I really did her a terrible disservice. The material was great and the vocal performances fantastic, but the arrangements and the production were, at best, flawed; and it has bothered me for quite some time.
I don't say any of that lightly. The fact is that over time, it became very tough for me to be able to listen to the disc because of what I felt were all the unnecessary flaws in the production. I always thought I should go back and rework the material - if only to satisfy the "itch," but by the time I was ready to do so, it appeared that all the original session data had been lost due to a bad hard drive. And so for a very long time I had to simply live with it as it was.
And then, in the Summer of 2010, something very unexpected happened: on a bit of a fluke - and with a lot of dumb luck - I was able to revive the hard drive long enough to transfer the data to a new drive. This meant I could now go in and do what should have been done in the first place, and make the album right.
Beyond some minimal piano and percussion, nothing has been re-tracked. And while a few of the songs from the original "Fade" simply did not make the cut, for any number of reasons, the overall end result is something wonderful, I feel. Something that is worth the time of the listener. I'm hopeful you'll agree and pass along the link to your friends so that they can hear the music as well.
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