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The Current State of Music S3 EP3 - Amanda Whiting
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I think it was DJ Format, or jean Claude of If Music (both previous guests) who put me onto Amandas music, and I'm sure Rebecca Vasmant had a part in that too...
I certainly picked up After Dark from If Music, it came out on Jazzman records which is a great label doing good things and its quite an etherial album and got a lot of play on my radio shows at the time. The Sunflower EP came after and I'm a sucker for an interesting cover version so my senses got spiked by her cover of Kylie Minogues "I Can't Get You Out Of My Head'
When Lost In Abstraction was incoming, I think I messaged Amanda to say I'd give it some airplay and she sent me a digital copy and I loved it, there was a couple fo tracks on there I thought were ripe for a remix and I knew Rebecca had put a remix on After Dark, so I thought she might be open to me kncking one of her tunes about.
It was Where Would We Be that really caught me and last year I went about making it into something with a more hip hop vibe to it, and I had an idea to invite a spoken word artist to contribute to it. I couldn't get anything to work out quite how I wanted and it fell to the backburner for a while.
After this interview she asked me what was happening to it and suggested getting it finished one way or another, and as we talked about, I said 'Yes'! Fate intervened and a young singer who had been using my studio agreed to add vocals and absolutely smahed it and a poet called Matt was recommended and he delivered, Amanda loved it and asked me to produce her new record.
So this episode is a bit special for me, and really its the power of connections, positivity (which isn't always easy to muster) and saying 'yes' when an opportunity presents itself, which in turn means overcoming your fears, and maybe getting yourself out of the way and seeing yourself as others do, not as you do, something I struggle with, but am learning to tame...
Enjoy!
If you want to know more about Amanda, you can check her out here: https://www.amandawhiting.com/
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