{"id":646,"date":"2020-09-22T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterjblume.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2021-12-13T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T15:00:20","slug":"peter-writes-records-horns-onto-w2s-new-song-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterjblume.com\/peter-writes-records-horns-onto-w2s-new-song-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Writes &#038; Records Horns onto W2\u2019s new song &#038; VIDEO!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"646\" class=\"elementor elementor-646\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5919dc36 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5919dc36\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-28824005\" data-id=\"28824005\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ee4c434 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ee4c434\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 13-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>As you probably noticed an uncharacteristically lack of activity on the 2020 \u201cPerformance Schedule\u201d page of my website, the recent Covid-19 pandemic has seriously impacted my LIVE music gigs (as it has too for EVERY other musician). However, during this whole \u2018shelter in place\u2019 time period, I was fortunate to still have been kept very busy and musically active with plenty of studio session work (writing &amp; recording my horns onto other artists\u2019 music). <strong>To date, I\u2019ve worked on 9 tunes for 5 different artists\u2013already 3 of the tunes that I worked on THIS YEAR have been on the radio!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Writes &amp; Records Horns onto W2\u2019s new song &amp; VIDEO!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":218,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" class=\"wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterjblume.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/W2-Featuring-Peter-J-Blume-Social-Distance.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterjblume.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/W2-Featuring-Peter-J-Blume-Social-Distance.png 600w, https:\/\/www.peterjblume.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/W2-Featuring-Peter-J-Blume-Social-Distance-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figcaption><strong>Screenshot from the W2 band\u2019s video for the song \u2018Social Distance\u2019<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago my good friend\u00a0<strong>Joe Walden<\/strong>\u00a0approached me about possibly writing &amp; recording some horns onto a few original tunes that he &amp; his \u2018<strong>Signal to Noise<\/strong>\u2019 (<strong>S2N<\/strong>) bandmate\u00a0<strong>Phil Went<\/strong>\u00a0had co-written.\u00a0<strong>Phil Went<\/strong>\u00a0is the guitarist (who typically comes up with the basic instrumental music tracks &amp; groove first, and who also engineers the band\u2019s sound mix, and produces any &amp; all use of visual incorporated multimedia), while\u00a0<strong>Joe Walden<\/strong>\u00a0is the lead singer (who then imagines the song\u2019s overall concept, comes up with the lyrics, and then designs all the production &amp; promotional graphics).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>So far I\u2019ve added my horns onto 2 of their tunes\u2014the 1st of which just got released on September 11th, 2020! The song is fittingly called \u2018<strong>Social Distance<\/strong>\u2019 (of course it is!), but was actually released under a different band name of \u2018<strong>W2<\/strong>\u2019 (for Walden &amp; Went). To me, it\u2019s sounds like a very cool\u00a0<strong>Phil Collins<\/strong>-meets-<strong>U2<\/strong>\u00a0kinda song\u2014with maybe a\u00a0<strong>38 Special<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018<em>Caught Up in You<\/em>\u2019 or \u2018<em>Hold on Loosely<\/em>\u2019 amazing guitar solo in the middle\u2026so if you like any of those (&amp; who doesn\u2019t?!\u2014lol), you will definitely like this! Besides,\u00a0<strong>lyrically it has an overall up-beat vibe-message of \u2018hope\u2019; maybe bringing a bright spot of some much-needed positivity, while being immersed in a time of almost complete negativity.<\/strong>\u00a0Sound familiar??<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so they brought me in to do the horns;\u00a0<em><strong>Phil Collins<\/strong>\u00a0had often used the\u00a0<strong>EW&amp;F<\/strong>\u00a0horn section called \u2018<strong>the Phenix Horns<\/strong>\u2018, so of course that was the sound-motif I\u00a0went for:\u00a0using\u00a0very rhythmic lines &amp; mostly stacked harmonically in unison-octaves.<\/em>\u00a0For the part\u00a0I came up with,\u00a0I overdubbed 7 tracks\u00a0consisting of 3 trumpets, 2 trombones &amp; 2 flugelhorns). Outside musician\u00a0<strong>Brian Doherty<\/strong>\u00a0was also brought in\u2014to do the drums (Brian is probably most noted for having enjoyed commercial success back in the 90\u2019s with a band called \u2018<strong>They Might Be Giants<\/strong>\u2019).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Anyway on an early Sunday morning in late August,\u00a0<strong>W2 shot a music video in White Plains\u00a0<\/strong>to support the song, and they invite us (Brian &amp; myself) to also be a part of it. It was a lot of fun to do and I think it\u2019s probably the best way to really enjoy the song, so I thought I\u2019d share it with you! Here is the link:<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:embed {\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sahrLycSjbE\",\"type\":\"video\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"youtube\",\"responsive\":true,\"className\":\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"} --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:embed --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb4bebd elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"fb4bebd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/sahrLycSjbE&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 13-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-video .elementor-widget-container{overflow:hidden;transform:translateZ(0)}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper{aspect-ratio:var(--video-aspect-ratio)}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper iframe,.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper video{height:100%;width:100%;display:flex;border:none;background-color:#000}@supports not (aspect-ratio:1\/1){.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper{position:relative;overflow:hidden;height:0;padding-bottom:calc(100% \/ var(--video-aspect-ratio))}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper iframe,.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper video{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0}}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-open-inline .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;background-size:cover;background-position:50%}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay{cursor:pointer;text-align:center}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay:hover .elementor-custom-embed-play i{opacity:1}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay img{display:block;width:100%;aspect-ratio:var(--video-aspect-ratio);-o-object-fit:cover;object-fit:cover;-o-object-position:center center;object-position:center center}@supports not (aspect-ratio:1\/1){.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay{position:relative;overflow:hidden;height:0;padding-bottom:calc(100% \/ var(--video-aspect-ratio))}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay img{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0}}.elementor-widget-video .e-hosted-video .elementor-video{-o-object-fit:cover;object-fit:cover}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-video,.e-con>.elementor-widget-video{width:var(--container-widget-width);--flex-grow:var(--container-widget-flex-grow)}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a30fbe0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a30fbe0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The song is also available EVERYWHERE: Amazon, I-Tunes, CD Baby, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, BandCamp, YouTube, etc\u2026and through their social media pages:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/w2musicny\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/w2music\/<\/p>\n<p>And for a slightly different perspective on the same song\u2014check out the sample of the track with my DEMO horns that I had initially submitted back to them.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the \u201cMusic\u201d\u2013&gt;\u201dSound Clips\u201d header of my website.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening and Congrats to W2 (Joe Walden &amp; Phil Went) on their timely \u2018Social Distance\u2019 song\u2014both audio &amp; video release!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably noticed an uncharacteristically lack of activity on the 2020 \u201cPerformance Schedule\u201d page of my website, the recent Covid-19 pandemic has seriously impacted my LIVE music gigs (as it has too for EVERY other musician). 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