First Insights

To make things clearer about what to expect of the project so far, here is a quick summary of what has been made yet.

... people i dared to ask (but i didn't give up yet) ...

• Morgan Agren
  
• Bill Brovold
• Percy Howard
  

... people who might be interested ...

• Dominique Lawalrée
• Rival
  
• Guy Segers
• Philippe Wauquaire
  

... people whith whom future recordings are planned ...

• Mourning Dawn
• Constantin Papageorgiadis
• Path Through The Mist
  
• Sex Circus
• Ximeng
  
• Pierre-Michel Zaleski
  

... people who already work on something ...

• Exo7

We let the music flow and we improvised something on last sunday 5th february at Goddess Studio. I sat on the drums, giving my kit new sound perspectives with the addition of african percussions (djembé, tama, and so on). Then i added bass and Exo7 played the didgeridoo part.
In two hours, it was done ! More overdubs could have been made (more percussions, some guitar, even voice), but it is only a sketch, a basis.

Well. If it sounds promising, that's not what i thought at first as a fairly balanced collaboration, Exo7's part being very symbolic on this one. So, we keep it, but we are already thinking of doing other recordings, starting of with one of his poem we'll have to musicaly illustrate.

• Daniel Palomo Vinuesa

Daniel was the first to positively respond to my request and showed a real enthusiasm to take part to this project. Somehow, i feel that our respective musical universe quite match with each other. So as he requested that i give him something to begin with, i've decided to work on a simple melody line that would have undoubtly my personal imprint. I took my toy xylophone, doubled the lines with a richer harmony and send it to him right away.

Now, i'm just curious to hear what kind of bad treatment Daniel will inflict to this first draft...

• Rhinestone Lives

Marja seemed to be delighted to share a song with me. She had already written two songs (Give Me Something, I Can't Breathe), showed me the lyrics but i'll wait to hear the melody prior to record it in a real Rhinestone Lives fashion way !

• François Vanvinckenroy

To tell you the truth, since the end of the Carpigstroke Band, François never gave up the idea of a real collaboration between us two. Somehow, the MULTIPLY project could be used on this peculiar occasion like some sort of springboard for what will come next...
I just received a first sketch of a song generated by his computer after he encoded the actual score. The song is called I Built Myself a Bridge.