A very young, shy and very well mannered girl came in, introduced herself, sat down at the piano and proceeded to sparkle aural fairy dust. A haunting and majestic voice came out of this 17-year-old that I never heard before. Lizbet Sempa’s voice is young yet mature, wise, graceful and experienced. How can anyone so young sound so old?

Throughout the one-day session, we recorded each song twice – once live at the piano for the video cameras, and once for the album release. Many times I found myself forgetting my duties as an engineer, loosing myself completely in Lizbet’s enchanting voice, playing and lyrics which are way too deep and insightful for her age!

I cannot tell you how proud I am to be able to say that I had worked with this extraordinary artist. Lizbet Sempa will no doubtably shoot to stardom. She has already conquered SoundCloud with 255,000 followers and nearly 60,000 plays with hundreds of comments from other who fell under Lizbet’s spell.

The recording was for Lizbet’s upcoming EP release Indirect Thoughts which is scheduled for later this year. Here is one of the live videos that was shot that day for a song called On These Hills:

And here’s is Mistakes from Lizbet’s SoundCloud:

If you’ve listened to the above songs, I know you feel the same way I do. Follow and support Lizbet on:

SoundCloud — Facebook — Zap Records

Camden Town was composed by Denise Jahnigen who not only wrote the music and lyrics, but also wrote and orchestrated all the string parts which were recorded in New Orleans with a proper New-Orleans-style rhythm section. The album is full of gorgeous melodies and jazzy, yet poppy, chord progressions. Denise has a great ability of taking complex chord progressions from the world of jazz and making them very accessible and natural to even an untrained ear.

I had the great fortune of being able to play electric guitar on two tracks – Amy and Crazy Magnolia – which I recorded in my studio, and also engineered/recorded various elements like drums, piano, bass, French horn, percussion and BVs in Snap Studios and Alice’s Loft Music (see below). More importantly for me, was the chance to mix 7 tracks which I am very proud of. The album was skilfully mastered by the great Ray Staff of Air Studios and is now available on CD and Vinyl (my first vinyl release!).

“…Adam Crowe for his incredible patience, support, and advice throughout this entire project…”

Credits

This album has been in the works for a long time and I know how hard Denise worked on it, and I believe the result reflects that. I’m very proud and honoured to take part in it. I encourage everybody to have a listen to the album below and moreover, buy a copy!

Buy Album

• Click here to buy the album on iTunes
• Click here to buy the album on CD Baby
• Buy the album from Denise’s website!