February, 2021 | VOLUME 6 | ISSUE 2
SOMETIMES JULIE
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? u o Y e r Where A Recording and releasing a new album can be a difficult proposition at the best of times, but the past year has seen even more challenges for musicians. Indie rockers Sometimes Julie, have just released their fourth album, Where Are You? with a video due soon for key track, “Own Kind of Savior,” but as with much of the world at the moment, it’s anything but business as usual.
“We are planning to get all of Sometimes Julie back together to rehearse as soon as we all feel safe, probably once we’ve all been vaccinated,” said singer Monica Sorenson. “The whole band hasn’t been together since March 2020, and I really miss my band family.” She notes the group, which features Sorenson (vocals) and songwriting partner Rick Walker (guitar) with Bruce Paul Allen (bassist), Anthony Sarain (keyboards, sax, flute), Alberto Moreno (lead guitar), and Dave Fuller (drums), has kept in touch with venues “so that we are ready to hit the ground running as soon as things open up again for live band performances,” she said. “Not being able to perform live has certainly been hard on us mentally and emotionally, but it is a small problem for us in comparison to what many other people are going through during the pandemic.” The band has used recent downtime to
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work on Where Are You?, with a bit of luck early in the project. “We laid the foundation for the album in the months right before the first stay-at-home order,” Sorenson said. Sessions were held at Pacific Beat Recording Studio with Grammy winning producer Alan Sanderson (Rolling Stones / Fleetwood Mac) engineering. “We are very fortunate to have been able to lay down the initial tracks then, because we have not been in the same room with everyone in the band since then,” she said. Completing the remaining overdubs, such as percussion, guitar solos, saxophone, etc., was accomplished with social distancing and isolation, or recorded remotely at band members’ home studios. The mixing and mastering process was also affected by social distancing. “Andy Machin of Bigrock Studios did both remotely, with input from Rick and me on video conference calls. The process was unique, to say the least, but we couldn’t be happier with the results. The passion, and overall quality, really shines through,” Sorenson said. Where Are You? is not named for a song, instead its title is taken from the second tune on the album, “Knew it All Along”, with lyrics written by Sorenson and Allen. “This song, like so many of our songs, is a conversation,” she said. “In the moment
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