“Songs by Liz Jones” Album Released
Broken Windows debut album “Songs by Liz Jones” has been released, played on BBC Radio, and is receiving a great response from both fans and critics. It’s a wonderful achievement by Liz and the band, and is available on CD and download from Liz’s website.
Here’s what Liz had to say about my part as the album producer;
I took a half finished set of tracks to Jen, with an admission that I wasn’t confident we had enough to complete the album to the quality I’d been hoping for, a bit despondent, feeling I had rushed the whole project. After a couple of days Jen came back to me with a wonderful optimism, a plan, and a very reasonable quote, to complete the project, instantly giving me back enthusiasm and confidence in my own work. It’s fair to say, I was thrilled, and continued to be so for the next few weeks.
It’s right to acknowledge that Jen has a super natural ear, hearing things I couldn’t, finding the fog and mess deep within complex tracks and in just the first mix she created an astonishing improvement. Her natural ear, combined with a kind but direct set of suggestions and a command of her software and equipment that was brilliant to watch, led to us sorting out all the issues methodically and at a pace. We did extra recording, several renditions of mixes, each an improvement on the last and in its final state, this album sounds better than I could have hoped for.
What a complete find Jen was. She really transformed my project. I’ve received countless positive feedback on its production, which is all credit to her.
I love this album as both producer and listener, and wish Liz and the band all the success they deserve.
Listening to ‘Strum’ I could hear several acid jazz influences, whether that was just my ears or not but the Brand New Heavies, Incognito and jamiroquai all appeared in the swinging beat and JazzFM might indeed might give it a listen 🙂 Oh I loved it by the way…..
Thank you YaggiBoom 🙂 I hadn’t thought of these as influences but you are right enough. Great bands. There are a variety of sounds on the album, I’d be really interested to hear what you thought about the other songs too. Cheers! Jennifer