This has happened to many people & I never understood till I found Sequin Velvet.
I first noticed a Marc Bolan cover & played video & was hooked as the camera just loves her, the expressions and how she interpretates each song.
We soon became friends & I started helping with promotional advice, made a few videos.
Thing is one track always from that first day always stood out with me 'Jewel'.
Hearing a few various videos on You Tube of same song all with those expressions and that blues feel to the song not only in guitar style but in vocal tones stuck with me.
NOW
Not much was said about it only she once recorded an MP3 for me as a thank you of 'Jewel' which sort of came more into play much later.
See Pete Waller AKA DeafboyOne and my co-PR for him Emilia Michalska we all started this project called 'DUETS' see the idea basical was part Emilia part mine of getting new fans from various fan bases to discovery other new artists by intoducing them in a duet form.
We brought Sequin into the project at an early stage and Pete had already had a track list of his possible tracks with who so Sequin opted for 'Life's A Gas' after the first choice for her was not really her (a Bowie cover later taken by Jude Faun).
It was a real cool move as the track sounded fantastic.
Just a day after it was loaded on various website players & aired on radio (LG73 & CRMK Radio) we were saying "hey! let's do it again sometime". Little did we know that sometime be almost same week.
It was left for Sequin to pick a song title but I was buzzing so high on this first track that MP3 I mentioned earlier came into play & I just sent it to Pete saying "hey doesn't this sound blues?" and added "wouldn't it be cool recorded in blues style?".
Pete loved it said "almost Delta Blues" and we got back to Sequin saying "how about 'Jewel' for next track?"
That day she had just started a week off leave on her regular work so jumped at recording straight away this time thou not just vocals. Pete had idea of using Sequin's own timing of her own acoustic guitar. So on this track you really get that Delta Blues feel with acoustic, electric and touch of slide.
This DUETS project is really turning into something cool.
More info on the full DUETS project coming soon.
To check out Sequin's duet with DeafboyOne where she sings the main lead go to his blue site on myspace link below -
http://www.myspace.com/deafboyblues
