I met Bobby Sharp in 2003 when we had the same landlord, who hired me to paint Bobby's apartment. We became friends and he gave me a song to record that he wrote in 1947 and never released: Nat King Cole was interested in it, but fell ill, and Perry Como showed interest , but lost the deal with his label. Here we are on the first day of recording. Fantasy Studios' Director Jeffrey Wood, Engineer / Mixer extraordinaire Adam Muñoz, and Bobby Sharp and I:
Bobby played the piano track. The beautiful song, "Hand In Hand", appears on my soon to be released CD. I sing it solo, and as a duet with Bobby.
Here are a few measures of what Bobby played that day:
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In 2007 I met poster artist Wendy Wright at a poster show held by The Rock Poster Society in San Francisco. She won that year's young artist contest. I love her work, which is both modern and with a 60's style. And decided I'd like to hire her to design the artwork for my new CD.
We met again in 2008. My single is called "This Is Happiness". I decided lying in a hammock was a good image for that. And remembered my dad took a picture of me in a hammock when I was 3. Amazingly Wendy owned a similar hammock. First we recreated my dad's pic and Wendy's husband Dan Doerner took pictures of me in the hammock on the roof of their Haight Ashbury apartment.
Then I gave Wendy pictures of the French village in "La Creuse" where "This Is Happiness" was born and the lyrics to my song.
And asked her, for the cover of the CD, to mix the picture with illustrations of the village and the themes in the song. Off to the races we were! Wendy had no idea how much work she was signing [...]
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Last year I had an audition for a feature film named "Contagion", with a huge cast: Kate Winslett, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Elliott Gould, Laurence Fisburne. Directed by Steve Soderbergh.
I booked the job. For months I looked forward to February 11th! Two days before the shoot my scene was cut. I had speaking lines! The next day I worked on a t.v. series called "Alcatraz" and had lunch with a cameraman from "Contagion". He confirmed "my" scene was with Laurence Fishburne.
Recently I watched French actress Marion Cotillard on Jimmy Fallon's Late Night show saying SHE had not met any of the stars on Contagion! It put things in perspective. Obviously I would've loved to play a scene with Mr Fishburne. My agent said this means something better is on the way, I told him it's going to be reeaally good! Cause this was pretty great :)
http://www.eurweb.com/2011/09/the-film-strip-laurence-fishburne-and-matt-damon-are-on-point-in-contagion/
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We had another fun and exciting month here at Fantasy!
Clara Bellino was in recording for her latest album which is being produced by Lincoln Adler and Greg Sankovich. Her style is inspired by her French upbringing and a life saturated in Jazz. The Dave Miller Trio finished their final mix on the album that has been made here from start to finish.
Featured again in July:
Congratulations are also in order for Clara Bellino, who finished mixing her forthcoming album with producers Greg Sankovich and Lincoln Adler! Greg and Lincoln are in multiple groups together in the bay area, including Times 4 and the Kurt Ribak Quartet.
Clara Bellino
