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GIGS ***
2V1G @ NO BLACK TIE
Date: October 7 & 8, 2008
Venue: No Black Tie, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Time: 10pm
Tickets: RM30 per person
Contact: 03-21423737 (after 5pm) / 012-208-3790 (Leslie)
BEAR NECESSTIES FUND RAISING DINNER
for the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre
Date: November 14, 2008
Venue: Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
For tickets and enquiries, contract organiser Amir Yussof, amir@freestyleavenue.com
re:mix, guest starring ROGER WANG
Date: December 21, 2008
Venue: Esplanade, Singapore
Time: 3pm and 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 per person (on sale from Oct 21 onwards)
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pre-order limited *DOUBLE TAKE's X'MAS CD* today
Christmas
is just months away and we've got an excellent Christmas gift idea for
you to give away to your friends and loved ones!
Double Take's "One Voice, Six Strings and 12 Days of Christmas" album,
autographed and all wrapped up in the prettiest festive packaging, ready to be sent
right to their doorsteps. Click here for a preview of the album.
Place and confirm your order before December 1, 2008 and we'll send it
anywhere in the world for you. Email us for a quote and check one thing
off your Year-End To-Do List.
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JULY
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Double Take in Equatorial Hotel's Summer Jazz Series 2008
It
was all sunshine and smiles when Double Take returned to Equatorial
Hotel's Flo Lounge for its Summer Jazz Series IV. Roger and Mia
Palencia joined forces again to delight crowds of fans at the hotel
from July 30 to Aug 2, 2008.
Performing two sets every night, Roger and Mia did not disappoint fans
who have been waiting for months to watch the reunion of this
magnificent duo.
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Malaysia's first pop/audiophile album out now!
From email Roger sent out to his mailing list on July 3, 2008:
Sometimes the only way to discover new places is to let someone else
led the way. That's basically what happened with this new album.
Early last year I got a call from my friend Leslie Loh. Leslie is an
avid audiophile who owns a local Hi-Fi publication, AV Xpress, and a
very popular blog, Desirable Audio Boutique
(desirableaudio.blogspot.com). I have known Leslie for a number of
years. He has been a supporter of my music ever since my early gigs at
No Black Tie. He told me that he wanted to produce an audiophile
standard Chinese acoustic album featuring just the voice and an
acoustic guitar. It would be a minimalist approach to Chinese classic
love songs of the 80s and 90s with high resolution recording. If
successful it would be the first Chinese audiophile pop album produced
in Malaysia. He had me in mind for this project from the very beginning
and wanted to find out if I was interested. I liked the idea and told
him to count me in.
Leslie also recruited producer Chow Kam Leong as well as Winnie Ho and
Regine Tai on vocals. He named the project 2V1G which stood for 2 voice
1 guitar. It was suppose to be a temporary name, but since no one was
able to come up with something better, it eventually became the name of
the group and album.
Once the songs were selected, I began work on the arrangements which
turned out to be harder than expected. You see I have never taken much
interest in Chinese pop music, so all this was new to me. Ironically
this was one of the reasons that I has chosen for this project. Coming
for a different musical background, Leslie felt that I should be able
to look at these songs with a fresh perspective. Winnie and Regine on
the other hand come from a strong background in singing Chinese pop
songs. Winnie is the winner of Astro Talent Quest 2000 (an annual
Chinese singing competition in Malaysia organized by ASTRO Wah Lai
Toi). Regine, meanwhile, was already an established Chinese
recording artiste and actress.
This meant that I needed to bring my guitar arrangement closer to what
Winnie and Regine were used to and at the same time give it a fresh
interpretation!! ..... I had to rethink a lot of my approach to this
project. A lot of my usual playing style just didn't work in this
context. I had to bring myself out of my musical boundaries and get
closer to what would work better with the singers, the songs and the
vision of the producer.
The guitar recording took a total of 12 days that was split into 3
separate trips to KL. It was a bit of a struggle at the beginning, but
towards the end I began to get the hang of it. We managed to come up
with a nice selection of 12 songs. Besides the standard heartfelt
Chinese ballads, there are also a few songs that were arranged in a
style that was closer to home for me. There should be enough variety
without being too safe.
On the technical side, the recording was done in high-resolution
24bit/192Khz DSP using the legendary AKG C12VR tube microphone. The AKG
is famed for its warmth and beautiful timbre, especially for human
voice. Special high-end power conditioning system was also used to
power up all the recording equipment in the studio for cleaner and
purer power supply.
The recording and mixing was done in Kuala Lumpur by MusicToxin’s
(the label and production house) in-house engineer, Vong, while the
all-important mastering is done by Keith Yip, the audiophile guru from
Hong Kong, who owns the audiophile music label Rock In music, who is
also the former boss and recording engineer of Audiophile Diva Susan
Wong. The CD is pressed in Hong Kong by Sony DADC, one of the top CD
duplication factories in HK.
The album will be officially launched on July 18, 2008 and will also be
distributed in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and possibly
Thailand.
I just received the album a week ago and heard the final product for
the first time. I must say the whole production team did a great job.
Not many singers have the guts to expose themselves and sing with so
little musical instruments to hide behind. Winnie and Regine not only
managed to pull it off, but their vocal performance really stood out.
My guitar playing came out really different from anything that I have
done before. It felt refreshing, familiar and a bit foreign all at the
same time ... but in a good way.
All in all, I enjoyed the whole experience. I got to discover new
musical territories, tried things I normally will not do on my own,
worked with a wonderful team and gained a deeper understanding of
Chinese pop music as well as a few kilos from all the pork they feed
me!!
Thanks for listening.
For more info about 2V1G you can checkout the blog maintained by Leslie at http://2v1g.blogspot.com
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Double Take in Equatorial Hotel's Summer Jazz Series 2008