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Download the song, and just sit outside and look up. Take a break. you deserve it.
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To read more about the song and the recording process, visit my BLOG.
Get more of the story with this great featured article and interview in the magazine Jump Philly.
and now for the Philadelphia Phase of recording my new single, Sky Blue Sky
Heeeeeeeere’s Danny!
Daniel Harris Levine – musician, illustrator, facial hair and buffalo chicken aficionado – has arrived to help me record some vocals for my new song in my kitchen in sweet ol’ Philadelphia.
We found the best place to record the melodica…
This is what The Kids would call: a Pop-Up Studio. Otherwise known as: My Living Room.
3am Snapshot: putting the finishing touches on Sky Blue Sky with Daniel Harris Levine and some Fender Rhodes electric piano in my kitchen. One of us is wide awake.
Sky Blue Sky has been recorded! Musical success.
And now to put all the tracks together, across land and sea, from Philadelphia to Rio de Janeiro. Sending it back over to producer Bruno Migliari.
Brazil, the ball is back in your court.
Daniel Harris Levine, thank you for your technical expertise and excellent ears, and converting my apartment into a recording studio. How much do you love Philadelphia?
Go inside Bruno Migliari’s 8VB Studios in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
as we assemble a talented band of renown Brazilian musicians
to record parts for my new bossa-influenced single Sky Blue Sky.
Starting in Brazil, and continuing in Berklee College of Music in Boston, Bernardo has worked with some of the biggest names in Rio’s jazz and pop scenes: Nico Assumpção, Leila Pinheiro, Simone, Paulinho Moska. He is currently a member of popular Brazilian groups Pagode Jazz Sardinhas Club (TIM award winner) and the band PARAPHERNALIA BRASIL.
Here he is recording guitar and cavaquinho for Sky Blue Sky.
Meet Marco Lobo!
Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, now based in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Lobo has performed with the biggest names in Brazilian music like Marisa Monte, Gilberto Gil, & Caetano Veloso. He regularly tours Europe, Asia, USA and South America, with 3 CDs under his own name. “The musicality of Marco Lobo is very special and unique in every way.”
Check out this crazy awesome video of Marco performing on pretty much every type of percussion in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Meet Bruno Migliari!
Migliari is a bassist, composer and arranger active on the Jazz, World Music and Pop/Rock scenes in Rio. He has toured internationally with artists such as Milton Nascimento, Maria Gadú, Marcos Valle, and is currently a band member for popular Brazilian performers Frejat and Simone. He also leads his own Bruno Migliari Trio. Bruno has written music for short films, acted as musical director on the TV show “Claro Q É Rock”, and was the bassist for The Voice Brasil during the show’s first season on 2012.
Because cats are helpful.
The Brazilian side is done! Here is bassist/producer Bruno Migliari, and assistant producer Ornella, working on the first mixes of my new song Sky Blue Sky at Bruno’s 8VB Studio in Rio de Janeiro.
I’m not sure how technology works, but we were able to somehow bend the time-space continuum to have a little Philly-to-Rio jam session. Facetiming some chill Brazilian rhythms at Bruno Migliari’s 8VB studios.
I met Bruno Migliari back in 2011, when I performed several shows with the magical Denise Reis in venues all over Rio de Janeiro. Here we are all performing together at Teatro Café Pequeno in Brazil. I am very excited to have him producing this new song, as well as performing on it. He is all about that bass.
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