Posts Tagged ‘Dani Rosenoer’

My mom doesn’t think that punk or hip-hop is where I should be heading. After all, I am a piano player.
But I’m thinking, the more genres I get into – the better.

In this track I’m using what essentially is the drums track from “Fight!”, an instrumental off the soundtrack of the new movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. The score was produced by Nigel Godrich, the mastermind behind a lot of Radiohead’s sounds. This is not exactly a remix; more like a whole new song written on a bed of drums. Had to stay awake until morning to submit this in time before my flight to Mexico that same night.

VOTE for me so I win. You know you want to.

The making of this next track involves 5 different artists. The original beat, called ‘In Heat’, is a remix produced by Javelin of a track by HEALTH, off the remix album ‘Health: Disco 2′. This new version, ‘City In Heat’ includes me singing the chorus and playing a synth solo, and my friends Truezt and Special from the eTEAM spitting the verses.

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Here’s a free download link by the way, to get your summer hotter while it’s still here –
http://www.mediafire.com/?gob3tabak1ci310

Some unique images in this video for Rise.
Rise is the first track from my debut solo LP: You Are Only Here Once.

Also check out the new videos page for more viewing pleasure.

Just got a new Roland sound card, so finally I can properly record music again.
I don’t recommend ever using M-Audio by the way; my Fast Track Pro was causing way too many issues.
Been recording lots of vocals lately and while trying to go through the whole recording process properly, I came up with the following ‘vocal rules’ that I think are essential to follow for the best results.
Thought I’d post that up, in case some of you awesomusicians might find use in it.

Top 10 Vocal Recording Guidelines

1. Always demo a temporary vocal track first, so you can listen back to it, hear all the imperfections, mistakes and unclear parts, and then re-record your vocals again from scratch with that in mind.
2. While recording, remember to sing equally and control your volume by changing your distance from the mic, according to how much you’re projecting. Use a pop filter.
3. Never use default pre-amps. Use Avalon or Universal Audio pre-amps if you can. Tube mics are better than condensers.
4. After recording, compress the recorded vocals manually, as much as you can. That just means turning down vocals that sound too sharp or loud, and turning up unclear quieter parts.
5. Try to sing as in tune as humanly possible. When you do, the clarity of your tone will also improve, because the precision of your singing intensity will improve. Yes I know, with today’s music industry it seems like you don’t have to know how to really sing. Trust me, that’s crap. You MUST know how to sing.
6. Autotune, but just enough to fix harmonies or some slightly off-key notes. NEVER do the T-Pain robot bullshit.
7. Make sure other listeners understand at least 60% of the lyrics you’re singing. If it’s a pop song, go for 80%.
8. Choose a method to make your vocals sound more interesting. Doubling, harmonies, an interesting reverb or an effect could all work.
9. Compress and reverb the final vocal, but not too much. Also EQ the vocals with respect to the rest of the track and use a De-esser.
10. Don’t Suck

It’s over here!
Let me know what you think.

This one took 15 hours or so. I shortened it, and changed the structure of the song. Used some original samples, but mostly re-played the others and added new parts.
If you’re an STS9 fan, you’ll recognize another song in the middle of this one.
Would be nice to win this competition. These remix websites are just awesome. Acidplanet, and Indaba are both great hang-out places for musicians. Highly recommended.

Oh and if you want to download the track, just click THIS

TONS of thanks to Coldplay for featuring my piano video for ‘Lifelong’.
I wrote and composed the piece, and Evan filmed and edited the video.
The result is featured at The Exhibition Room on Coldplay’s site, among many other talent-filled art pieces.

The track will soon be available on my new “Punching Keys E.P.”, for the lovely price of ‘Pay What You Want’ on www.everyonestalking.net

For now, you can also enjoy the album ‘Dragonflies‘ by my band Everyone’s Talking, also for any amount of dollars you want, even $0!

Working on a shitload of new music and videos at the moment. Stay tuned and tune-in stoned.

Check out the new A R T page.

Boys and girls

Check out my new ‘Piano-Rock Remix’ of the Matisyahu single ‘ONE DAY’ here
This is an awesome competition on this great new website – IndabaMusic.com and winning would definitely rule.
Cheers!

New Everyone’s Talking YouTube video: Composed/performed by me and filmed by Evan.
And it’s called ‘Lifelong’.

Hey everyone,

My solo album “You Are Only Here Once” is now on sale in it’s entirety on iTunes for 5.99$.
If you’d like a physical copy of the CD, I’ve got it on sale at my eBay store over here.
Also, if you haven’t got “Chapter 2″, my band’s latest E.P. you can pick that up on iTunes as well for 3.96$.

And I’d like to thank all those of you who supported those releases in the last few months. You know who you are!

And here‘s a new online-magazine post about Everyone’s Talking that my friend Daria wrote. It’s quite… different. What do you think?

Dani

Hey everyone,

A magazine in Mexico called ‘Look At Me’ recently posted an interview with my band, Everyone’s Talking. I’m very excited to post this, it’s our first official press release. Below is the picture of the article (which is in Spanish of course) and after that is a short English version of some of the questions in the interview that Evan answered.

How did the band start?

Dani and I met a few years ago and start the band together, writing and recording songs in our basements. I knew very quickly that we had a sound that was special and our influences matched as well as our vision of a band.

Where did you get the idea for the band name?

The band was named after a lyric we have in the chorus of our song “Adventure.”

How difficult is it to write your music?

We have full creative control, which is very important to us as artists. As independent artists what we do has lots of ups and downs but being in front of our fans at show is always pleasurable. Writing the music is not the difficult part. We know every part of what we want musically. The hardest part is operating the band as a business and becoming self-sustainable.

What makes this project magical?

The magic in this project is the collaboration between Dani and myself. We both came from very different musical and cultural backgrounds which has helped us find our own unique sound.

What are your expectations for the release of the next disc?

When we release new music we hope it connects with and continues to expand our fan base.

What cities are you planning to visit?

We are promoting “Everyone’s Talking” in Canada, USA, and Mexico. We’re really looking forward to playing for and visiting our fans in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara. Later on we’d love to play anywhere in the world. Dani wants to visit Russia, where he was born and play in Israel too, where he grew up.

Where do you get the inspiration from to write your songs?

Every song is different, whatever is the flavor of the moment. Lately I’ve been noticing a trend of inspiration when traveling. There’s something about being out of my comfort zone which helps the creative process.

What are your short term plans?

We’re getting ready to record some new tracks in the next few weeks and get ready to release a new E.P. and then we’re spending the time after that touring.

Anything else you would like to add?

Thank you for helping us spread our music. If you’d like to hear some of it, please visit our band myspace.