David Longoria, trumpeter, music producer and songwriter releases The Journey,   
   his first contemporary instrumental album in three years with an EDM   
   (Electronic Dance Music) soundscape on Del Oro Music. Produced by Longoria and   
   Robert Eibach, the twelve    
   song collection follow the theme of a lifetime of milestones represented as a   
   journey. From a time before birth to the afterlife, the range covers a dozen   
   points common to most people.    
      
   Starting and ending with different versions of a theme called Angels, Longoria   
   presents a catchy improvised theme that brings to mind barouque trumpeting.   
   The opening version is a beat driven dance track that seamlessly blends the   
   classical trumpeting    
   with edgy progressive house production. The ending rendition is beatless and   
   relies more on ethereal arrangement incorporating both strings and   
   synthesizors, symbolizing the afterlife. Staying true to the theme, The   
   Journey illustrates the songs listing    
   as a map instead of the traditional titles list.    
      
   "I drew a map to show how each song relates to the others in the timeline of   
   one's life," Longoria explains, adding, "Every milestone represents an   
   important event  or point in a life".   
      
   Genesis is a musical representation of a single cell meeting another and   
   dividing over and over again. One note then two, four, eight, sixteen and so   
   forth until a melody forms. Finally a heartbeat emerges and the melody takes   
   shape as a unique song, or    
   being. Playground is a fun, dancey song that playfully bounces the trumpet's   
   catchy melody over the beat. Mermaids carries a nautical theme and is meant to   
   show the point where boys discover girls.    
      
   "Every little boy falls in love with mermaids and every little girl wants to   
   be one", says Longoria. He describes his own experience as "a curious time   
   when I found that girls were far prettier than we were and could be way more   
   dangerous".     
      
   Never Give Up, Dodging Arrows, The Good Life and Swagger are songs that bring   
   the theme into the formative years and into adulthood. International musicians   
   joined in to compliment the songs including Grammy winning South African   
   flautist Wouter    
   Kellerman with a solo and harmonized duet with Longoria's trumpet. Funky   
   bassist Duane "Smitty "Smith brought a memorable solo and foundation and   
   legendary guitarist Funky Gemi Taylor lent a hand for the proud Swagger.   
   Decadence shows that in one's life    
   often we take things to excess. This dance song features the vocals of   
   Longoria joined by Electro Pop duo Stiletto, made up of singers Katie Shorey   
   and Andie Sandoval, and young rock lead guitarist Ariel. Stiletto's seductive   
   vocals brought the    
   temptation element to the song.   
      
   "To show that edgy element I needed to bring in a fun and crunchy, screaming   
   guitarist to play off the lyrics and my wild trumpet work," Longoria explains,   
   and adds "Ariel has such a great feel for edgy solo work I knew she would   
   bring just the right    
   amount of energy and edge to the song". He found that her youthful presence   
   and tremendous talent were perfect to compliment the theme of the over-the-top   
   song.  Longoria found her guitar solo videos on YouTube and contacted her to   
   bring her to the    
   studio. "I really enjoyed her take on the classic shredding guitar solos a la   
   Eddie Van Halen and others from the vintage eras of the 1970s and 80s," he   
   says. "She is a very talented musician as well as a very sweet young lady,   
   which was a bit of a nice    
   surprise!" Longoria muses.    
      
   There comes a time in life when you realize it shouldn't just be all about   
   yourself and you want to reach out to give others a hand with words and deeds   
   of encouragement. "I wanted to have a song on The Journey that lifts people up   
   and can cause change    
   in our society, even though I know that seems like a lofty goal at the onset,"   
   Longoria explains, adding "Since last year marked the 30th anniversary of   
   Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie's iconic collaborative song We Are The   
   World, I wanted to take that    
   inspiration and write something to take on an issue of today by bringing   
   artists together to join me". He wrote a song to unite races in our modern   
   world, by verbally sticking a flag in the notion of people standing up for one   
   another and declaring to    
   love one another. We Are One was written and produced by Longoria to attempt   
   to do more than words. He formed a charity, We Are One Concerts, LLc to   
   educate and involve students in discovery and the idea of uplifting each other   
   regardless of race,    
   culture and economics, where the proceeds of the recording can do some good.   
   By designating profits to the good works of the charity,  Longoria felt the   
   mission can reach many students across the country- especailly in the cities   
   where racial tensions    
   have been the greatest in recent years, including Ferguson, Charleston,   
   Baltimore, New York and Chicago.    
      
   Longoria knows a bit about bringing programs to kids to encourage and inspire   
   through music. In 2001 He, along with a few other recording artists started a   
   concert program that produces concerts at schools and community venues with a   
   charity called LIFT (   
   Living Intelligently For Today). The self funded program has brought the   
   artists across the country producing as many as 250 concerts in a year, all   
   with no cost to schools or students.    
      
   "I asked twenty artists to join me singing on We Are One so we could show the   
   power of many singing in unison, and how those voices could take on such an   
   important issue in our time," says Longoria. He planned to produce the song   
   with those twenty    
   artists within two weeks and wrap up the recording project. Things got a bit   
   out of hand. Nearly a year and a half later, Longoria has produced more than   
   600 artists all singing together with him on this now historic song for unity.   
   Artists from all    
   genres, races and generations joined in singing. Stars of Motown to now   
   including Coasters, Drifters, Platters, Freda Payne, The Fifth Dimension,   
   Florence LaRue, Jerry Bell (The Dazz Band), Brenda Holloway, Dawnn Lewis,   
   Corey Feldman, Marvin Gaye, Jr.,    
   Peaches and Herb and about 595 more recorded in more than 400 recording   
   sessions in cities all over America and Europe.    
      
      
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