Who am I? A face, hair, and new member.
Jun 24, 2017 22:46:41 GMT
JoaoR, SoWeirdBoy, and 2 more like this
Post by Questions on Jun 24, 2017 22:46:41 GMT
Hi!
My name is Sacha, and this post is possibly a bit strange and is partly self-promotion (ew), but please bear with. A while back, a YouTube video of me singing "Questions" was shared around here, and I want to thank everyone for the kind words. That performance was so strange, partly I was asked to perform so out of the blue and so last minute, and had to scramble to get musicians together. (I've spent years as a session singer and music educator, so I didn't have a band - but I had many colleagues, thankfully!) All things considered, I don't think it went too badly!
[Molly monologue]"I've been on the road as a solo for about a year now..." [/Molly monologue]
Anyway, I'm writing this, as my covering the song was such a niche thing to do, and I feel only you guys, and maybe some rogue Firefly fans would care. I've only performed sporadically in the past few years, mostly trying to get my solo record finished between all the work, and also clear the rights to my own recording of "Questions". (Doing so involves purchasing a licence through the Harry Fox agency, although the songs aren't listed individually. Merely as "So Weird score" with Annmarie and Jon listed as writers. So I purchased that, knock on wood.)
My record comes out on July 15th, and was mostly co-produced with an experimental rock musician named Todd Rittmann, but for "Questions", I was approached by a producer in France named James Sanger. He's worked on a lot of things, including an underrated record by former Sugababe Siobhán Donaghy. If anyone is interested, you can preview a few things here: sachamullin.bandcamp.com/album/duplex
We ended up doing like a trip-hop/pop version of the track back in 2014, so it's a bit of a relief to know it can be "out there". I based the backing vocal arrangement partly on the original, but messed with it a bit more. Those were sung by my former voice teacher Judi Donaghy-Vinar, mentor Emily Bindiger, and amazingly enough, Annmarie "Montade" herself! The combination of their voices floors me, and I'm so happy with how it came out. (And thankfully, so is Annmarie!)
All this said! When I listened to the "Siren" podcast, I was surprised to learn that the original song isn't that popular amongst you folks! "Questions" was the song that actually hooked me on So Weird! I remember being quite happy to find out that 'Catalina' from Space Cases (Jewel Staite) hadn't "died" in a spaceship explosion, but had instead just moved to Disney. I was also quite curious about the song in general, what with all those overdubbed voices, and how it, like "New Math", seemed at the time incomplete. (Since we had no real way of knowing otherwise!) I also thought it was quite clever that whenever the camera focused on the men, 'Callie''s multiple layers and the synth were present. Whereas when the camera focused on the women, they just had one voice and a plain guitar track (coming out of a fake laouto? haha). That attention to detail in the sound mixing made me really appreciate the show when I was younger. I already grew up watching things like Twin Peaks, so I appreciated the slower pacing, facial expressions, lore, and even the sometimes-too-closely-mic'd dialogue. (Actually, I sampled the "they ain't payin' to hear you talk" bit from "Medium" on another track...)
Also, I must confess that I was the one that made all of those rudimentary-looking Phillips-Kane Band graphics floating around, including the Another World recreation. I think I made them on some early 2000s Microsoft knock-off of Photoshop, painfully tracing the letters from screenshots, looking for same or similar images either seen or implied. I hadn't even thought of those in so long, so it's kind of a trip that someone saved them, and that there's even an "Another World" board theme! Amazing. (And yes, that image of the Earth is the same one, and I distinctly recall trawling for two hours on the internet trying to find the exact NASA image!)
Thanks for indulging me on this long post. I hope to engage in some of the threads here. This is all very nostalgic for me!
My name is Sacha, and this post is possibly a bit strange and is partly self-promotion (ew), but please bear with. A while back, a YouTube video of me singing "Questions" was shared around here, and I want to thank everyone for the kind words. That performance was so strange, partly I was asked to perform so out of the blue and so last minute, and had to scramble to get musicians together. (I've spent years as a session singer and music educator, so I didn't have a band - but I had many colleagues, thankfully!) All things considered, I don't think it went too badly!
[Molly monologue]"I've been on the road as a solo for about a year now..." [/Molly monologue]
Anyway, I'm writing this, as my covering the song was such a niche thing to do, and I feel only you guys, and maybe some rogue Firefly fans would care. I've only performed sporadically in the past few years, mostly trying to get my solo record finished between all the work, and also clear the rights to my own recording of "Questions". (Doing so involves purchasing a licence through the Harry Fox agency, although the songs aren't listed individually. Merely as "So Weird score" with Annmarie and Jon listed as writers. So I purchased that, knock on wood.)
My record comes out on July 15th, and was mostly co-produced with an experimental rock musician named Todd Rittmann, but for "Questions", I was approached by a producer in France named James Sanger. He's worked on a lot of things, including an underrated record by former Sugababe Siobhán Donaghy. If anyone is interested, you can preview a few things here: sachamullin.bandcamp.com/album/duplex
We ended up doing like a trip-hop/pop version of the track back in 2014, so it's a bit of a relief to know it can be "out there". I based the backing vocal arrangement partly on the original, but messed with it a bit more. Those were sung by my former voice teacher Judi Donaghy-Vinar, mentor Emily Bindiger, and amazingly enough, Annmarie "Montade" herself! The combination of their voices floors me, and I'm so happy with how it came out. (And thankfully, so is Annmarie!)
All this said! When I listened to the "Siren" podcast, I was surprised to learn that the original song isn't that popular amongst you folks! "Questions" was the song that actually hooked me on So Weird! I remember being quite happy to find out that 'Catalina' from Space Cases (Jewel Staite) hadn't "died" in a spaceship explosion, but had instead just moved to Disney. I was also quite curious about the song in general, what with all those overdubbed voices, and how it, like "New Math", seemed at the time incomplete. (Since we had no real way of knowing otherwise!) I also thought it was quite clever that whenever the camera focused on the men, 'Callie''s multiple layers and the synth were present. Whereas when the camera focused on the women, they just had one voice and a plain guitar track (coming out of a fake laouto? haha). That attention to detail in the sound mixing made me really appreciate the show when I was younger. I already grew up watching things like Twin Peaks, so I appreciated the slower pacing, facial expressions, lore, and even the sometimes-too-closely-mic'd dialogue. (Actually, I sampled the "they ain't payin' to hear you talk" bit from "Medium" on another track...)
Also, I must confess that I was the one that made all of those rudimentary-looking Phillips-Kane Band graphics floating around, including the Another World recreation. I think I made them on some early 2000s Microsoft knock-off of Photoshop, painfully tracing the letters from screenshots, looking for same or similar images either seen or implied. I hadn't even thought of those in so long, so it's kind of a trip that someone saved them, and that there's even an "Another World" board theme! Amazing. (And yes, that image of the Earth is the same one, and I distinctly recall trawling for two hours on the internet trying to find the exact NASA image!)
Thanks for indulging me on this long post. I hope to engage in some of the threads here. This is all very nostalgic for me!