Artist Statement:
We wanted to highlight our separate strengths; Miles’s piano, Leilani’s vocals, and Sophie’s vocals, bass, and guitar. We all play more than one instrument, so we had multiple layers of us playing different instruments. Sophie also added a bassline and vocal harmonies. Our biggest challenge was trying to put together a complete song with all the instruments when we couldn’t all play and sing in a room together. Every single instrument had to be recorded separately, and even though this is something some of us were semi-used to, it was not normal practice for us. When trying to finalize our recordings, almost every single vocal track had some sort of noise bleed in the background (the echo of some other instrument). So all the way to the end of the process was re-recording all the messed-up tracks and having to fix the errors that arose when we tried to use Soundtrap. One of our main challenges was with only being in person once a week. We could practice at home, but we did most of our recording at school, so we didn’t have much time. We were also sharing the space with other groups so we had to take turns recording, and there was often a lot of background noise.
Credits:
Femme Fetale was originally composed by The Velvet Underground
Sophie (vocals, guitars, bass)
Miles (keyboards)
Leilani (vocals)
Jack T & Charlton St. Studio (engineering & production)
