For the past couple months, I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate on a recording project with some great musicians, called “I Won’t Hold My Breath.” Chris Rios played drums and was co-editor in video/audio editing, Romeo Palacios was on guitar, Chucky Kim played bass, I wrote the lyrics, melody and sang; David Castañeda wrote the music for the track and edited audio and the video.
After participating in a project like this, I will say that practicing the track ahead of time definitely would’ve helped in the recording process. The more you practice a song, the less you worry about lyrics and melody, and the more likely you are to try to step out (or in this case, sing out) and bring your own unique interpretation of the song to the recording. Plus, knowing the song makes the difference between two recording takes and, potentially ten takes.
I was extremely impressed with the amount of musicality, taste, and intuition that came from each musician that contributed to this project. When you have great people and musicians to work with, it creates a great, conducive working environment for creating, and it makes you want to create more.
Below is the link to the track on Sound Cloud. Please take a listen and feel free to leave any comments you might have.
Music video for “I Won’t Hold My Breath” should be released within the next couple weeks. For now, I hope you enjoy the track. Please listen and share.