My friend just came over from Tokyo to work on his demo. This batch of songs is getting ready to be presented to the labels, we'll see how it goes. He wrote the melody and charts and I sort of "cleaned up" and did the arranging / chorus arranging.
With this song, I tried to withstand the temptation of making it an all out 4 on the floor disco tune. His charts are very vanilla, if not sounding a little dated.. but yet not in a classic way, but in a sort of very "ordinary" way. So I struggled to figure out how to put some character into the arrangement. There really isn't much. it's kept to a bare minimum, with the strings being the highlight throughout.
Strings: free vsl stuff from k2
drums: proteus free
piano / rhodes: pianoteq
bass: Live's Analogue
song download here:
http://kensuguro.com.music.s3.amazonaws ... norfix.mp3