Chapter 238
Volume 7 / Chapter 238
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Isleidir
Colin and Kyung Min Ho waited for Jun Hyuk in the studio while focusing on practicing. Alvin Lee worked until late last night, finishing the recording for all 12 songs.
Alvin Lee’s lyrics started with his suddenly rising as a star while not being able to adjust to the change in his surroundings, and continued into an unstable time. With making more money than he could handle as the background.
The time he spent in the madness of alcohol, sex, and drugs as well as his time in rehabilitation with pain and ruin. Then his return as a normal person. The 12 songs were made with his true thoughts as a musician.
The music needed to be light rather than flashy to truthfully deliver the lyrics’ contents, so the result was blues, folk, and alternative rock.
For the 2 performers who long for the flashiness however, Jun Hyuk created 3 bonus tracks. Drums, bass, and guitar. The music placed each instrument at the front.
"Min Ho. You’re ready, right?"
Kyung Min Ho, alone in the recording booth, had headphones on and held up his drumsticks to signal okay.
"Then the music is going out. We’re starting now."
As it is said that recording each instrument separately to mix later is not true band music, they recorded the 12 songs all at once.
But to preserve each person’s individuality for the instrumentals, Jun Hyuk did not even create scores for the bass and drum parts and left it entirely up to the two of them. Today’s recording was for them to play as they want to, and they were pouring out all of their workmanship to their liking.
If they just finish today’s recording and the mixing, Jun Hyuk and Alvin Lee’s album will be revealed to the world. President Stern and the record label need to spend their days busily from now on.
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The new director from England, Louis O’Connell, had swept up all of the major film festivals with an experimental independent film. He listened to a CD with written on it, on repeat all day.
He had been opposed when he first received the proposition to produce the music video. He wanted to dedicate his attention to the Hollywood masterpiece he was currently in the last shooting of.
However, he could not refuse the record label when they even came directly to his house to ask if he would at least listen to the music. When he heard the CD in the car on his way to the filming location, he was so shocked that he could not focus on driving.
He had a gut feeling that the record would occupy Billboard charts through the first half of the next year and would take over the global market. Not a single song had been inserted for assortment, and they were all so good that each could be promoted as the title song. On top of that, the honest lyrics tugged at his heartstrings so much that he had the desire to make them into a movie.
He spent the entire day lost in Jun Hyuk’s music, and called the record label.
"Did Alvin Lee make the songs for this album himself?"
"No. Alvin only wrote the lyrics. The composer is Jun… Do you by chance know who he is?"
"Jun? The person who conducted the New York Philharmonic… the Korean kid who wrote Inferno? No, Maestro?"
"Yes. He’s the composer and took over the producing as well. Would you believe it if I told you he made the album’s 15 songs in just 3 days? He played the guitar himself as well."
It is not rare for people to find sudden inspiration and write amazing songs within 1 or 2 hours. But he has never heard of someone making an entire album in 3 days, and finds it hard to believe.
"Wasn’t that Jun in classical music? Oh right. He released a jazz album too, didn’t he?"
"Yes. He’s the only maestro who isn’t tied down by genres."
"I heard he’s one of the geniuses who may or may not appear every 100 years… I guess it was true."
Louis O’Connell recalled how he felt when he first heard the CD for Inferno. He had not been able to get past the 1st part due to his fear or the unknown rather than pain.