Track by Track, the songs from the next EP
Music Reports from JM Musique - Demo Talk Music Art No 2 - #demoTalkMusicArt
#demoTalkMusicArt (DTMA) is the name of a musical project that aims to launch a first EP available on the virtual market. The whole thing is operated by Jeff Maheux, the music composer.
Here Is the Second Report of the DTMA Project
Financially supporting a musical project isn’t easy. Equipment and technology are expensive and subject to renewal.
Also, if you aren’t the only person who composes, records, mixes and produces, you have to think about finding the talents, musicians and friends who will work with you, remembering they’re not always available when you are, and vice versa.
You have to find a lot of solutions before everything gets going and the whole team knows exactly what needs to be done and when.
Of course, whether you’re alone or in a group, all this has a cost, regardless of when each stage of the project is carried out.
In this report, I present the musical soundtracks that will be used to finance DTMA.
A production JM Musique.
Photo by Jeff Maheux, author and composer. The hashtag is #demoTalkMusicArt. The production company’s website is www.jmmusique.com.
Financing DTMA
In the form of instrumental frames of 15 seconds, thirty seconds and one minute serving as sound and musical tracks for publications, clips and videos, JM Musique tracks will be sold with the aim of financing the project.
You can already listen to new tracks, programmed regularly and announced on JM Musique’s social media sites. Visit the track gallery, the Pop Rock Tune, which will become an e-store this fall 2024.
Redirection to the link of the JM Musique partner site.
#demoTalkMusicArt, Tracks By Tracks
Track D – Desert
Words and music by Jeff Maheux. Arrangement JMaheux and Angelo Labbate. Guitars ALabbate. Productions ©JM2000-23.
Desert, a piece written on March 1, 2002, on the bus going to the studio to record the vocals of this musical composition that I had been dragging around for several months. The musical scores being completed. I had the chorus area in mind (… and I would never have to suffer) without being able to put words into words. I would then jokingly hum this line while waiting to find the words for the song. The final text was written in the last 10 minutes of the journey when the bus was deserted.
The instrumental version was first presented to the public during the launch campaign of the jeffmaheux.com site in March 2018. Later this year, DTMA will present the final piece with voice and harmony recordings and new orchestrations.
Nothing was touched once recorded. I thought, if Debbie Harry had laid down her extraordinary One Way to Another hidden in the bathroom at the last minute, my Desert would do the job for a demo.
Track T - I Think About You
Words and music by Jeff Maheux. Arrangement JMaheux and Angelo Labbate. Guitars ALabbate. Productions ©JM2001-24.
I Think About You, a fast paced and 50’s influenced play with a humorous text on a sexual alter ego. Just with this, you can guess who I’m talking about… The King! My father imitated him very well, by the way!
The music and lyrics evolved during the fall of 2001 and culminated in the recording and mixing of the music on November 22, 2001. The short tracks of the vocals and harmonies from the demo version were added a few years later to make the song part of the list of choice of the demo presentation service offering to artists and producers.
Thinking was a pleasure to record with Angelo. I remember coming back from the studio with a lot of enthusiasm as I reread my production diary. It’s a song that puts you in a good mood and was composed for the stage. It’s a great track to keep people standing and dancing!
This song offers a lot of interpretation possibilities. The intro has been used several times as music for announcements and advertisements of all kinds since 2018, the year the site launched jeffmaheux.com.
When my website was unveiled in 2018, I presented this demo, along with the Desert coin, which attracted a lot of requests and communications to be made. I must admit it made me panic a little bit and I wasn’t well prepared. I then took an artist-entrepreneur course which allowed me to learn about the administrative side of the profession of a self-employed songwriter and especially to spot scams of all kinds.
The vocal tracks in the sung version of the demo are rough tapes; Voices performed during studio work to indicate the peaks of the performance when recording the music, before recording the final vocals and harmonies. Over time, I started recording rough tape vocal tracks at the very beginning of the arrangement process demonstrating an idea of the melody and the moments to be highlighted in the song through effects or musical flights. I even keep them until mixing, because I don’t work on my music continuously, but one or two hours a week. I was able to limit my time in the studio, which was often expensive.
DTMA will introduce the final piece with recordings of vocals and harmonies. I really like the lyrics of this one. Over time, I sing it in a more assertive way and added a story to introduce it, about a date in a 1950s style Steak House, like in the movie Back To The Future.
Track M - Men
Words and music by Jeff Maheux. Arrangement JMaheux and Angelo Labbate. Guitars ALabbate. Productions ©JM1998-23.
A composition of April 11, 1998. Originally a children’s acoustic lullaby, arrangements and a drum + base composition were added later when I worked in the studio to produce an instrumental version of over 8 minutes to serve as a soundtrack in a student documentary in 2002. The classical guitar soundtrack was featured in commercials and was later used in 2005 as a soundtrack on a personal music video for Mother’s Day. DTMA will present the final piece later this year, with recordings of vocals and harmonies.
The melody of the chorus comes from my invented hum since I was a child. It’s a tune I’ve always hummed and always loops. It was one of the first compositions I made with a classical guitar when I learned to play after my CEGEP.
Track A- A Florinda
Words and music by Jeff Maheux. Arrangement JMaheux and Angelo Labbate. Guitars ALabbate. Productions ©JM2005-24.
This music was composed for an agent looking for different styles to present to his male artist, lyricist. The first version, smooth, is edited as a simple pop rock progression. The arrangements are simple, and it can be used perfectly in a 30-second radio format or muted in a 3-minute interview.
The pop version features a change of rhythm to the chorus and punchy pop arrangements. A brass section was added a few months later to be remixed, to provide more streaming options. DTMA will introduce the final piece with recordings of vocals and harmonies.
Conclusion
Thank you for your time reading and being part of the #demoTalkMusicArt adventure. The next report will feature D.
See you next time.
Jeff
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