{"id":274,"date":"2018-06-08T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:15:17","slug":"acoufunkture-ep-momentum-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/2018\/06\/08\/acoufunkture-ep-momentum-release\/","title":{"rendered":"AcouFunkture EP &#8220;Momentum&#8221; Release!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Momentum-art.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Momentum-art.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Momentum-art-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Momentum-art-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Momentum-art-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Momentum-art-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Momentum-art-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong based band AcouFunkture is pleased to release its second EP of original music <strong>&#8220;Momentum&#8221;<\/strong>! Featuring 4 songs written by AcouFunkture frontman Richard Kimber and produced by Farley Sangels at Lamma Studios, &#8220;Momentum&#8221; was quite fun to make! For more on this band please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acoufunkture.com\/\">https:\/\/www.acoufunkture.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RoJxpLNK01k\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>People have been asking about the creative process, so maybe I can take a moment to describe how we did it. Rich wrote these songs a over the past six months or so and we played them a few times live at open mics and at our performance at the Lamma Sunday Afternoon Concert Series. That was enough for us to work out a general idea of the arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Richard and Natalie came over for dinner on February 7 and we spent 3 or 4 hours recording Rich&#8217;s vocals and guitar loops, with a break for organic homegrown food from Lamma Studios&#8217; garden. Then Rich and Natalie went off on an epic 6 month trip to South America and I set to work on the tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recording everything at Lamma Studios (with the exception of 1 trip to the Hong Kong Cultural Center to record superstar bass clarinetist Lorenzo Iosco and one trip to Studio B to record conga maestro Chris Polanco), we filled out the rest of the songs. Pop songs are pretty labor intensive! For example Rich spent about 45 minutes recording vocals and ukulele loops for &#8220;Another Day&#8221; and then I spent 15 more hours adding 37 more tracks, recording other musicians, mixing, adding effects and synths and mastering. I kept track of my work hours and each song took 13-15 hours of studio work to be finished. This was a good speed improvement over the recent High Hopes release, which took me about 20 hours per song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/486KsUV2rKPTGhY5FeOqid\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/486KsUV2rKPTGhY5FeOqid<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used Ableton Live to record and mix and Logic Pro X to master. My audio interface was an Alesis i26 (now obsolete) and I used my 2013 Macbook Air which is still performing beautifully as a video editing studio for my assistant Nessie. The main mic I used was a Rode NT-1A mic, which is a great economical workhorse that can record just about any instrument well. I also used a smaller Rode condenser pair for overhead drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/momentum-ep\/1396818443\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/momentum-ep\/1396818443<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This release represents works 46-49 and instruments 48-53 (cajon, piano, D trumpet, claves, guiro, suspended cymbal) in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/joshuamaccluer.com\/the-50-50-challenge-my-2017-orginal-music-and-multi-instrumental-project\/\">50-50 Challenge<\/a>. Just one more work remains and is coming soon, and it&#8217;s a big one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so grateful to all of my terrific friends and colleagues here in Hong Kong (and a few elsewhere) who have helped make this 50-50 project such a great success at a total cost of $0 for 49 original works. This release involved the contributions of 15 people and I am very grateful to these great friends for their contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AcouFunkture: \u201cMomentum\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Songs by Richard Kimber<br>Produced by Farley Sangels at Lamma Studios<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cLooking For Her Smile\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Kimber: lead vocals, acoustic guitar<br>Lorenzo Iosco: bass clarinet<br>Farley Sangels: Ubass, cajon, trumpet, piano, electric piano<br>Driek Storms: shaman drum, shakers<br>Geoff King Luk: electric piano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cAnother Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Kimber: lead vocals, ukulele<br>Valeriy Frolov: hang drum, electric guitar<br>Chris Polanco: congas, cabasa<br>Farley Sangels: drum set, cajon, backing vocals, piano, organ, trumpet, trombone<br>Geoff King Luk: electric bass, synth bass, synth guitar, synths<br>Minnie Chan: backing vocals<br>Bonnie: backing vocals<br>Felix Tham, backing vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ll Be There for You\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Kimber: lead vocals, acoustic guitar<br>Farley Sangels: Ubass, drum set, gongs, Tibetan bells, D trumpet, backing vocals, shakers, synths<br>Valeriy Frolov: mini djembe, backing vocals<br>Geoff King Luk, acoustic guitar, synths<br>Bloomsbuy: backing vocals<br>Minnie Chan: backing vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWhy Oh Why\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Kimber: lead vocals, acoustic guitar<br>Felix Tham: violin, backing vocals<br>Farley Sangels: Ubass, backing vocals, cajon, claves, guiro, shaker, suspended cymbal<br>Seraphim: backing vocals<br>Andromeda: backing vocals<br>Davide Pasquallini: brushes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong based band AcouFunkture is pleased to release its second EP of original music &#8220;Momentum&#8221;! Featuring 4 songs written by AcouFunkture frontman Richard Kimber and produced by Farley Sangels at Lamma Studios, &#8220;Momentum&#8221; was quite fun to make! For more on this band please visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.acoufunkture.com\/ People have been asking about the creative process, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/2018\/06\/08\/acoufunkture-ep-momentum-release\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AcouFunkture EP &#8220;Momentum&#8221; Release!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49,6],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamma-studios-releases","tag-acoufunkture","tag-lamma-studios"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lammastudios.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}