Liverpool Session Orchestra with Erino Yumiki at Parr Street.
The single Lost by Japanese artist Erino Yumiki, currently heard on a Japanese TV series, is featuring the Liverpool Session Orchestra with Christian Badzura’s arrangement. You can listen to the track further down the article.
Erino Yumki is a songwriter and guitarist who loves the songs and the sounds of the Beatles. So it was not too far-fetched to turn to the services of the Liverpool Session Orchestra to create the mixture of beatlesque and modern string parts Erino aimed for.
The string arrangment on Erino’s track
“Sometimes it is a real challenge to add some heavy string arrangements to a song that is already very full, you do not want to kill a big sound by layering plenty of additional strings, yet still you are asked to make it even bigger and dramatic”, says Christian Badzura. The song’s production and musical style, a brief by EMI’s Tom Gora - and very importantly a translation of the Japanese lyrics – provided the direction for the arrangement.
Christian Badzura was asked to blend beatlesque string quartet arrangements with large unison string parts that work within a dense pop/rock ballad, that even includes a guitar solo performed by Erino herself. Very rare these days!
“It all needs to sit nice and tight in the mix. In certain parts of the song we asked the orchestra to play with damper in a very chamber music manner to get this tiny charming sound”, says Christian Hildebrand.
Delivering music via Internet
LiSO welcomes and embraces the opportunities spawned by the Internet. Using FTP technology and tools such as Skype clients from all over the world can easily tap into LiSO’s expertise. “It is wonderful to work over such a distance and yet there is no distance when communicating over the Internet and everyone seems happy in the end!” But at some point Hildebrand and Badzura will jump on the plane to Japan.
Listen to the track
Check out the Youtube Video of Erino’s song below…
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