Tokio Myers – Price Studios Live Room

Tokio Myers, Guy Farley and Cragie Dodds – Price Studios

Charlotte has had the great opportunity to be working with the very talented pianist and artist, Tokio Myers. He has released several singles and EP’s over the last couple of years.

Tokio is currently in the process of creating his new album after being signed by Syco Sony which is due to be released sometime later this year.

As the runner for the sessions, Charlotte has been on hand assisting within the studio for Tokio, the producers, Guy Farley and Craigie Dodds, as well as engineer, Hugh Fothergill. She has also recorded cello and sung backing vocals for several tracks on the album.

Concert overture in the scoring stages – From DAW to Sibelius 7

Over the last year, Charlotte has been working on her biggest piece of work to date. Earlier in 2016, She was commissioned by the young, upcoming conductor, James Thomas to write a concert overture for 60 players for the Eroica orchestra.

The piece will be performed in concert later this year, alongside other well-known concert repertoire.

The piece has now reached the scoring stages of preparation, with small tweaks and alterations being made before being sent off to the printers.

Charlotte has recently joined the 80’s band, Johnny Hates Jazz with original band members, Clark Datchler and Mike Nocito. She will be playing gigs across the country as well abroad. She will be joining them for her first gigs throughout the summer festival season in the UK.

Charlotte has made it into this quarterly edition of PRS for Music’s ‘M Magazine’. She is featured in the ‘Just Joined’ section on page 4.

‘M Magazine’ is distributed to over 120,000 composers, songwriters and music publisher members, contains PRS news and features on the creative community within the music industry.

Here is the online link below to the article found in the magazine:

http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/genres/classical/just-joined-spring-2017/

Charlotte had another fantastic trip with the Tom Bailey team, this time out on an 80’s Cruise ship, dotting around the Caribbean. The cruise stopped at Cozumel, Mexico, The Cayman Islands finally finishing in Jamaica.

She spent a week out with the team, performing two gigs on the first night of the cruise. The full set list was played for both gigs, receiving a warm reception from an almost sold out crowd of 900 strong. The gigs were played in the front of the boat in the ‘Celebrity Theatre’.

Above is a video of the last set list song, ‘Hold Me Now’. Charlotte can been seen on Tom’s right hand side of the stage.

The Hall, AIR Studios

The Hall, AIR Studios

The Hall, AIR Studios

The Hall, AIR Studios

Control Room in the Hall, AIR Studios

Charlotte had another amazing opportunity, again at AIR Studios in Hampstead, in Studio 1 and the Hall, assisting on the recording session of ‘That Good Night’. This was John Hurt’s last film before his passing, seeing Charles Dance acting alongside him.

The session was spread across two days, of which the first day saw the recording of the Portuguese ensemble in Studio 1. This was a mix of Spanish guitars, mandolin, the accordion and an upright bass. There were also some separate piano cues recorded. The second day saw the recording of the full orchestra, this time in the Hall with strings and woodwind.

Charlotte oversaw organising the days, putting together a rigorous schedule of cues that needed to be recorded on the first day with the Portuguese band and the orchestra as a whole, and more separate piano cues on the second day. With 44 cues and 43 minutes of music to get recorded, there was a lot of pressure on the day to get things right. She also oversaw the distribution of parts and help with both the band and orchestra across the two days.

Here are two cues recorded from the second day with the full orchestra. These two cues were two of the final cues from the film being rehearsed before being put down as final takes:

Charlotte had another amazing opportunity to be involved in a recording session, this time at AIR Studios in the hall.

The BBC’s very own BBC Concert Orchestra were brought in to record Guy Farley’s arrangement of John Lennon’s, “Happy Christmas (War is Over)” for a new BBC ident that is to air over the 2016 Christmas period, titled as “BBC Oneness”.

Charlotte oversaw the distribution of parts for all the players as well as following the recording session with the original Logic file, taking note of any ‘on the floor’ changes that needed to be made.

The second half of the day was spent in the control room, again working with the renowned Geoff Foster, who mixed and engineered the session.

Here is a brief clip of one of the takes of the piece, this particular take being in G major:

Charlotte had another great opportunity to be involved on a session, in this year’s Christmas advert for the supermarket chain, Morrisons. The session was held in Abbey Road Studios, in the iconic Studio 2.

With a 60-piece orchestra at hand, the first half of the day consisted of a full recording of the televised version and the radio version edits. The second half of the day was spent in the control room, mixing and mastering the piece, ready to be aired.

On this session, Charlotte oversaw score distribution as well as following through on the Logic files, watching for any mistakes made from project to score.

Here is a short video of one of the takes that was made of the piece:

And here is the final televised version that was aired across the country:

Charlotte had another brilliant trip with Tom Bailey and the team for a gig at the Hard Rock Cafe, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

With five days across the Atlantic, she managed to have a couple of days off exploring the capital city as well as the beautiful beaches. The gig took place on the Saturday evening which went down a huge success, with the venue reaching up to 500 guests. Being Tom’s first gig in the Dominican Republic, there was a real buzz in the air.

Photos taken by LD.

Charlotte’s most recent session was at Abbey Road Studios, back in the iconic Studio 1, recording music for Bear Grylls’ Live Tour – Endeavour.

Working again with Guy Farley and the team, she was involved from the lead up to the recording, helping prepare scores as well as orchestrating small parts for the players, right up to the last stages of the mixing process, which was done back at AIR Studios in Studio 2.

It was a full day, with recording starting at 10am with the full orchestra in the morning. In the latter half of the day, the ethnic instruments, vocal and piano parts were recorded with mix preparation in the evening.

All the music that was recorded at Abbey Road Studios will be accompanying Bear on stage as the action takes place. The tour begins this October, and Bear will be touring across the UK, right up until the end of the year.

Here is a short video of one of the cues that was recorded on the day: