The Making Of "All Beacause She's Gone"

Taking it back to October 2006 Here's the story behind one of my favorite tracks "all because she's gone". I participated in the 2006 Red Bull Music Academy which was held in Melbourne, Australia this time. While at the academy I met 30 of the most amazing people from around the world who became family and the music I produced there reflects that. Phonte Coleman of "Little Brother" was also there, when he arrived we almost went to work immediately. We did three full songs in one night, the ideas were flowing with nothing to stop them. One of the tracks we worked on was "all because she's gone". This track started off early in the morning. Participants would start arriving between 10 and 11am, I would get there allot earlier than that and sometimes sleep there to use the studios in peace and quite. So on one of those early mornings I kept humming this guitar in my head, I laid down some drums but this guitar was stuck in my head. Pretty soon Daniel Jacobson (participant for Ireland) walked in and I said "Daniel, can you play what I'm humming?" he said "sure" and the hummed guitar was born. After our first lecture Carl Mcintosh (of Loose ends) went on a walk through the studio rooms. I stopped him and said "would you mind laying bass on this?" he said, "sure" and the bass was born. So now the track is coming to life and I'm feeling good about it. Without hesitation I took the track to the main studio room and laid it down. While in studio "A"David Wright (participant from New Zealand) walks in and I say "yo, can you play Rhodes on this?" he says "sure". (you see the pattern?) At this point Little brother MC Phonte Coleman walks in and says "O, what the hell is this?" I say "just something I'm putting together," he says "lets write to it and finish it." So now we've written and recorded to it. (Phonte got his singing on and he and both MC'd) Todd Simon (trumpet player for Madlib and Macy Grey) walks in and says "this is dope!" I say, "yo, Todd.. Throw some trumpet on that bitch!" I whistled a few Horn melodies to him and the rest was history. Phonte felt something was missing and pulled Tor and Andreya Triana (participants from the U.K.) in to do some additional vocals, perfect touch. Sequencing had already began and we were still adding elements. Richard Eigner(participant from Austria) added tambourines, Mark Pritchard (Harmonic 33) added additional synth and sound effex. That my friends was the making of "all because she's gone"(fact: "Delusional" from Little Brother's last mix-tape "And Justice for All," and "The Perch" produced by Flying Lotus were all made that same evening.)

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Meet the band
song, rhymes, drums, instrumental melodies- Oddisee

bass- Carl Mcintosh

rhymes & Sangin- Phonte Coleman

additional chorus vocals- Tor

horns- Todd Simon

FX & chorus synth- Mark Pritchard

tamborine- Richard Eigner

guitar-Daniel Jacobson

rhodes- David Wright

back ground vocals- Andreya Triana


Last but not least here are some never before heard tracks i made in Melbourne. Some finished and some just ideas that came from being around producers of other genres, enjoy.




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